Sure was. Paulus specifically mentions the extra hurdle it caused his doomed 6th Army multiple times in wires back to the Wolf’s Lair and Berlin.
That surely would cost more than they’re worth. That being said, there is no reason not to keep them around. Tossing them out just for the sake of tossing them out is moronic.
This is dumb. There is absolutely zero reason (that I can see) to toss these out. I have no issue with them standing the Predator down operationally, but that doesn’t mean they have to get rid of them. Give them to someone like the Border Patrol or Coast Guard. There are absolute tons of government agencies, or…
Yep. Exact weapon capabilities are still a bit shrouded. Armor composition and active defense capabilities even more so.
In all honesty he does a really good job being upfront. The problem is criticizing budget and procurement stuff is a really slippery slope. Some of it is completely warranted (F-35, LCS), but much of it isn’t. Many of those decisions are made because they’re privy to exacting enemy capabilities, and our own, that…
You’re pretty much right. That be said, logistically supporting a large land conflict in Europe could be pretty tough for NATO. It all depends on exactly what equipment/stores would have to be replinished from American stocks, in the US. Important stuff would be airlifted, and the Russians wouldn’t have a hope at…
No I agree. I’m a big fan of Tyler’s entire body of work. I work for a company that does studies much like the Rand corporation and we do it for the US and foreign militaries. With the US sometimes it’s 100% open source, sometimes it’s not. I know Tyler didn’t serve, nor did the vast majority of people reading this.…
Yeah absolutely. He knows better though. He apparently from one of the coalition countries. You know he never says that shit to his own countryman in person. Being an anonymous internet tough is obviously his standard. Too bad....
I’m predictable? You’re the coward literally spewing every ounce of old, verbal vomit, that has been repeated by idiots with no idea what they’re talking about for the past fifteen years. Shut the fuck up, you’re an idiot.
Hahahhaha. Best response to anything I’ve seen in a while.
Absolutely. Like most government organizations, the DoD has to spend their budget or that budget will be cut. That’s part of the reason procurement has turned into the headache that is. The DoD and it’s branches need to be able to not spend 100%+ of their budget without worrying about it getting slashed.
Haha I was just watching that last night.
I’m not trying to say the Russians are incapable. In the context of this article Tyler makes it seem like we’d simply run precision munitions and then be screwed. My point was that if we ran out, Russia certainly did before us. Their stocks of precision munitions isn’t very big and they are still planning around using…
Inside their own borders? Yeah that’s fair. There’s just soooooo many variables and nobody has any clue how that simulation was set up. That’s why this article is “interesting”.
Since 1945, conventional conflict has always been defined as the abstention of WMDs. It’s only the past few decades where unconventional means asymmetric.
Yawn. Another foreigner, talking about the US, whining about the US, but lacking the testicles to even proclaim where he’s from...
He’s right. Conventional in this context means any conflict that doesn’t use WMDs. There is a term called “Total War”, that is no holds-barred (terror bombing, massive mine usage at sea and on land, white phosphorus, etc) but refraining from using WMDs. WWII is a good example of “Total War”.
Are you really that dense? First of all, as a percentage of our GDP, we don’t spend anymore than Russia does. Second, huge portions of that money goes into maintaining an already superior force.
First of all, nothing pisses me off more than the “derp you guys got your ass kicked in.....”.