History often repeats itself. In a similar way, Great Powers like France refused to study the lessons of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 because it was something that happened in barbarian lands far away from glorious Europe, so it was obviously irrelevant to them, right? And then the shock of industrial warfare almost shattered the French army in summer 1914.
The US military is sitting on decades of older equipment. The Ukraine conflict started four years ago. Complaining that the US has not overhauled its inventory in just four years is unreasonable and unrealistic.
Furthermore, Choppers arent obsolete and if you got em, it makes sense go use them.
Currently it's hard for any nation to meaningfully adapt, as the new tech develops far faster than any governement procurment process.
The US must out of necessity respond to this attack that was carried out of necessity in response to US' attack. It's "attacks out of necessity" all the way down... until that one initial attack which was a necessity only if you see it as Trump needing to respond to people/country other than his own.
spiderfarmer•36m ago
The USA is the Russia of the West nowadays.
spwa4•34m ago
tristanj•30m ago
Why does Iran have the right to fire drones into other countries?
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blitzar•6m ago
(I would add that this is sarcasm, but it is reality for a lot of people sadly)