• GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I’ll grant you it’s a big racket, it’s corrupt, it’s inefficient, but I don’t think it’s a skill issue.

    https://youtu.be/d5v6hlRyeHE

    I wouldn’t consider failing to win the hearts and minds of the local populace using violence a military failure rather than a policy failure.

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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      5 hours ago

      Ukraine showed that modern warfare is a different game than it used to.

      it’s s resource war, cheap drones can cause lots of damage, and it is far more costly to fight them. long range rockets, v defense systems…

      and given that US have painfully expensive toys, they won’t be able to hold of again a cheap enemy.

      yhea, Maybe the F22 can outmanoeuvre another airplane in a dogfight, but who tf needs a dogfight? the enemy can just launch a volley of self guided missiles that costs 100x to intercept.