Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Warfronts" channel.

That's pretty insane how one war fought paved the way for civil wars on both sides afterward.
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Yeah Sweden basically is an export Goliath on the ranks of the Russians and with a 10th the population.
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@weirdshibainu No the US is pretty good at war. Rather objectively. The difficulty however is more of defining objectives and victory conditions On top of that, the US is just really terrible at occupation. It doesn't know how to actually set up successful governments because it can't come out of its own mindset. Though it has been successful at its nation building efforts in the past. Both with its own territories of the south it was able to reintegrate, and surprisingly, the Phillipines where it was able to put down a revolt, put in a military government, and then relatively quickly put in a civilian government which by 1935 was intended to be a period where they'd transition to full independence (though it was intended to do so 15 years earlier until a political change in the US stopped it from happening).
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@weirdshibainu Why do you say we're only average at war? The only times the US has "lost" is when public perception turned and they voluntarily left. There has never been a military defeat of the US in the strategic domain.
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Mobile Air strips are just exceptionally useful as an offensive weapon as it allows you to have an airfield off the bat with limited ability to retaliate pull offline (due to their mobility), and can provide command and control near the front. Paired with an amphibious Assault ship, you have an expeditionary warfighighting capability, meaning you can potentially fight any coast on earth. And fundamentally, obsolescence is not about whether or not a platform is vulnerable. That comes whether you want it or not in almost any form eventually, but instead about the capability it gives you. And this gives you power projection across the sea.
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I think the issue may be the expense. Something tells me that this would be pursued by the middle powers, so think the Turks and maybe the French in the future. But the Turks are the ones heavily investing in drones technology and are becoming a leader in the field. Maybe also in use in the FPV drones being used. But I'm not sure in either case. Maybe it's just that it's not something so commercial yet to come in the appropriate shape. Or perhaps the need for jet fuel. May even be that you can't carry much on them since the jets aren't actually that powerful and could be slowed down. Finally, it may just not be made aware of yet since it's pretty niche
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To the final note: I think it's worth noting that the world which is slowly evolving, is one where no international community exists.
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@Anders Juel Jensen I think more than anything else it'd probably be about how much gas you'd need but if you can run it off diesel or even gasoline you'd really not have a ton of problems only using it once. Definitely fine for shorter distance affairs. Maybe even using it as a budget ballistic Missile.
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Probably what WW2 or the 30 years war felt like. I mean Sabaton literally sung about the latter with "Has man gone insane?"
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@Rm_1776 Yeah I think the only ones who experienced similar levels of depopulation were the Poles. But if you were a Russian soldier serving in 1941 you died at about the same rate
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Well if they're ASKING for liberation, well neighbors next door sound like they should be fine to go in.
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Well... nah pretty good idea. Would've needed more social cohesion to properly have one and as demonstrated, they don't.
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@marlonmoncrieffe8966 We only ever fought western enemies 3 times. 4 if you count the Civil War given it was also us. But the Spanish might as well not have been a western enemy and was just a very sticky empire who had declined for decades and was mostly killed after Napoleon. So overall I don't really agree with the point here.
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@finnfigure America still has troops in the country. Not to mention how Iran hasn't been in Iraq since the war.
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@saeedvazirian If a country leaves not due to economic or even really social instability at home, and instead due to political change, as compared to a strategic defeat on the ground or economic collapse, what do you call that?
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