@draggs
The US literally had no logistical problems for 8 years in Iraq except for one week.
If the US military was able to handle it inhouse they would not have required Haliburton to do the job. The US military
could not get this job done without outsourcing it to third parties. The supply crisis only resolved itself in mid 2004, even then you can see Marines participating in Phantom Fury with woodland camo vehicles and vests.
Directly contradicted by experience in multiple countries
The US fled Iraq the moment it got a good opportunity and excuse. It outright got humiliated in Afghanistan.
The marines are going back to being marines because they expect they'll be used to land on chink islands in the next big war instead of having virtually indistinguishable roles from regular army units
The US Marines constituted about 25-30% of all ground forces between 2001 and 2013ish. A full third of the land force is doing EXACTLY what I described. Thanks for agreeing with me. The reason the MEU came about is because the Marines felt they required the heavy equipment to hold a landing site. This is no longer the case, light infantry paired with sufficient AA and artillery are just as effective as the massive battle wagon convoys of Desert Storm.
Those 33 F-22s are all first-generation and aren't used for anything but training and you can get the same training cheaper using other planes that are also still combat-approved. The oldest F-22s don't have the newest air-to-air combat systems they're used for ground-attack training. Now that the F-35 is the ground-attack plane the F-22 is doctrinally almost purely for shooting down enemy planes
Once again, thanks for agreeing with me that the military is trashing overly expensive weapons it can no longer sustain or have purpose for.
The willingness of the United States to spend money on military power has not lessened one bit gtfo
It has nothing to do with willingness of the oligarch class, its necessity. The current economic woes of the US are going to rearrange what Americans are willing to spend on. The business newspapers prognosticate a food crisis later this year globally because of fertilizer shortages, if its even half as bad as they predict it will
instantly change what the US population is willing to tolerate. The Floyd riots and Jan 6th will look like fucking circus shows if there is a widespread food shortage in the US, also it doesn't need to be empty shelves, a massive spike in price is enough to trigger food riots and massive bloodshed. The crime wave, inflationary crisis, potential food shortages, the US is in an extremely precarious situation. German food markets just announced there is going to be a 30-50% on food starting Monday, shit is going to get real very quickly in the West.
