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The 82nd airborne division can be in planes on it's way to drop anywhere in the world 18 hours after a phone call from the White House. The Russian equivalent
by Godel_unicode 6y ago
The 82nd airborne division can be in planes on it's way to drop anywhere in the world 18 hours after a phone call from the White House.
The Russian equivalent is called the CRRF, and has a similar force mix for obvious reasons.
- vkou 6y agoThe 82nd airborne division will be out of fuel, ammunition, and food within a week after dropping anywhere in the world, without an international logistics network of shipping to support them, and all the baggage that comes with keeping that network operating. Look at the massive logistics effort that was necessary to invade and occupy Iraq, a country one-tenth the size of the US, where half the opposition deserted before a shot was fired, half of the rest deserted after the first shots were fired, and where half of its neighbours have US or NATO military bases in them. No other country in the world is capable of doing this across an ocean.
- Godel_unicode 6y ago> No other country in the world is capable of doing this across an ocean. 1 - Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. 2 - Even if that were true, American allies are frequently not across oceans from Russia/China/Iran/North Korea. Are you suggesting that the United States should back out of NATO? Tell Japan and South Korea we don't like our treaty obligations and to fend for themselves?
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