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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

We still spend too much on it. We're following Germany's fallacy from World War 2 of trying to have all of our equipment be the bestest ever instead of good enough. Accounting for inflation last time I looked we're spending twice what we were when we invaded Iraq.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

There's no "from WWII" about that we're still gold-plating equipment.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

That's... That's my point. We won world war 2 with equipment that was great strategically and logistically, but was merely good enough tactically. We've switched positions. We need to realize that a million man military can't be gold plated.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I mean Germany is still gold-plating things. Also a million men when did you decide to cut the size of your forces in half.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I wasn't counting all of the reserves because we accept that they get old equipment.

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