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A fair point, and this is one thing we may have on any other country of similar size and standing, but as we've seen with Russia, that only counts if it's been
by kneebonian 4y ago
A fair point, and this is one thing we may have on any other country of similar size and standing, but as we've seen with Russia, that only counts if it's been what you've been working for.
Our military is exercised to an extant, but it's also been exercising for fighting asymmetric warfare, and irregular combat, not conventional combat on a battlefield against a comparable enemy. It's like running 3 miles every day in preparation for a marathon, it's something and helps you work out some things, but its going to be very different once the gun fires to start the race.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoOne of Russia's big issues I've heard is that they command down from above. They do not have a strong force of decision-making NCOs. This seems plausible given their poor and reactive performance in Ukraine.
- fsckboy 4y agothat's certainly a good explanation for what we see, and I have no counter-evidence, but I'm also suspicious of the matchup with a common cliche/trope: the WWII Nazis and the Imperial Japanese forces were also not able to think for themselves, and how many Star Trek episodes and alien races are foils for the idea that it's the fluid complexity and individualism of "Americans" and "humans" that makes them so adept at succeeding in the shifting tides of battle...