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During the cold war, American taxpayers ended up paying for bridges to be rebuilt in Europe so that theheavy tanks could defend against a Russian invasion. Now
by nitwit005 1y ago
During the cold war, American taxpayers ended up paying for bridges to be rebuilt in Europe so that theheavy tanks could defend against a Russian invasion. Now that the border is further East, they're busy rebuilding more bridges (not US paid this time): https://united24media.com/latest-news/maybe-this-europe-to-redraw-military-map-with-20b-plan-to-rush-tanks-east-in-hours-not-weeks-10251 https://united24media.com/latest-news/maybe-this-europe-to-r...
They do not believe the tanks will be able to get there in time without doing that.
But that only gets you mobility in allied nations willing to spend billions on infrastructure.
- kulahan 1y agoYou may have responded before seeing the rest of my comment edit - there are many methods for crossing some bridged area. Either way, we can always just... scout a route ahead of time which doesn't take us straight to a dead-end. We probably already do this with satellites in a matter of minutes or hours nowadays.
- nitwit005 1y agoWell, I think you should tell them they don't need to spend tens of billions. They're apparently very confused.
- kulahan 1y agoIt's... obviously better to just trust the roads are good to go, but you can never trust that in enemy territory. Even if the bridge is "sufficiently strong", you don't know if it was booby-trapped by the enemy.