• Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is correct in a sense. While the US has a decent amount of stand out technology, comparably good training, comparably well equipped soldiers, etc. The true power of the US military is the world wide infrastructure it has developed to get whatever force needed, to where ever force is needed, within a few hours to 3 days. So, yeah, the US military being able to deploy fast food chain restaurants pretty much anywhere in the world, is a demonstration of it’s reach and resources, if an unconventional one.

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      10 months ago

      Yup. I took a class on military history and my professor said that what wins wars is not weapons but logistics.

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          10 months ago

          a gun doesn’t kill people, that shipment container of guns over there does

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        10 months ago

        Except interstellar wars. It’s all about weapons and finishing it in one strike for those.