Hussar
Legend
Well, it's not just about numbers.
No. Fair enough.
Well, it's not just about numbers.
True.Well, it's not just about numbers.
True.
According to sources I’ve looked at, Russia has the world’s largest tank force. By a lot. But of those, only 100 or so would be of their best unit. And those are probably limited to defense roles inside Russia- not for deployment on front lines outside the country.
In contrast, the USA has thousands of its best tanks deployed domestically and internationally.
IOW, they opted for quantity over quality...and that ignores all their other issues.
The US Armed Forces learned the hard way that "racking up the body count" does not equal "winning the war". My favorite post-Vietnam analysis quote:Oh sure. Sorry I wasn’t making light. I am actually pretty impressed with the US military.
For all the poop that people fling at the US for its foreign policies, IMO, the US has always been remarkably restrained in its use of force.
Put it in perspective. Both the US and Russia spent similar amounts of time in Afghanistan. About twenty years. The Russians killed about 1.5 million Afghans in that time. The Americans about 15000.
Imagine what the US could actually do if it chose to and it’s quite terrifying.
That’s what’s clearly happening here: the Rothenbergs and other arms manufacturers pilfer; the steel-, iron-, and component-manufacturers pilfer; the plant managers pilfer; the employees pilfer; the unit commanders pilfer; the supply officers pilfer; the soldiers pilfer. It’s a wonderful grift. Everyone benefits! Well, except when war is called. Suddenly, all that equipment that was supposedly in the field turns out to have been an illusion, long sold off for Italian villas and bottles of vodka
Yeah.Okay, wow. I mean, ^^ this is almost exactly how the U.S.'s second invasion of Iraq started. We had bad intel and believed it because Saddam had bad intel and believed it.
Wow.