Like the only thing we have is military tech superiority, or wed be wiped off the map
No other country has the amount of aircraft carriers, air refueling tankers, and awacs aircraft as the US. You need all of this shit for invading countries across the world. Other nations really don’t have the capacity for invasion and imperialism that the Americans do. Even if it’s massively overpriced and the capabilities inflated, downplaying the strength of the enemy is not a recipe for victory.
You need all that shit to bomb poor countries with little air defense. To modern developed militaries, all of those are just expensive targets.
IMO fighting a peer military will be all about who has better (& cheaper) missiles and drones, and probably stealth aircraft and artillery to a lesser extent.
Like crime said, but to nitpick, those three you cited are pretty useless for the actual invasion force. The real invasion forces are by land and sea, which America also has the largest amphibious assault fleet and military sea lift capability. But, let’s not kid ourselves about the actual challenges of invading a peer/near peer nation: amphibious landing ships have enormous radar cross sections (even the fancy San Antonio class) and would be easily sunk by anyone with antiship missile capabilities, especially with how close they actually have to be to the shore.
Using post-WWII invasions as a guide, the real key is to invade your neighbor or having an adjacent nation under your thumb to stage invasion forces in, as large scale amphibious operations are incredibly difficult to actually pull off.
Of course, if you invade Grenada then you could pull it off with just aircraft.
Do they just not tell trump how op our military is so he doesnt abuse it? Couldnt hide nukes but hide the jets
really? he thinks the amount of weapons are the problem? and not that there’s nowhere near enough manpower who are motivated enough to sacrifice their life for pocket change and the noble goal of raising profits for some delusional oligarchs?
WeaponX contracts when? /s
He will buy Boston Dynamics, rebrand it as X-terminate, use one of those shitty robots as a weapons platform and call it a “Dalek”, for the epic memes. Then pretend he inverted it right before it fails spectacularly and kill a shitload of bystanders during a test deployment. Trump will sink $100b into it.
My guy you can’t even win at videogames you are not a military strategist. That said he’s probably right just because it is fucking obvious.
idk paying people to win games for you is a pretty good strategy, don’t know how well it’d translate to irl military strategy though lol
I mean that’s basically how it’s done: pay a bunch of soldiers to fight the war for you
Mercenaries, e.g., Blackwater or whatever the fuck they’ve changed their names to in order to avoid prosecution for war crimes
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But I hope he does try to “reform” the Us military, then they’ll lose the next war even worse.
