I’ve got this special interest with regard to the amazingly-wide gulf between the perception of how effective the Amerikan military is, and how incompetent they actually are. tl;dr, practically all of our wargame simulations are heavily scripted-- when they don’t script how OPFOR “is supposed to act”(direct quote from one of the overseers of MC’02), OPFORs rungs lower on the tech ladder absolutely TPK our shit with low-tech methods. Millennium Challenge '02 is a prime example of the kind of fuckery the Joint Chiefs get up to fudging how effective our troops are.
Not to mention the problem with being a global hegemon is that you have to be the best at everything from jungle warfare, force projection across the ocean, European land wars with near-peer capabilities to ‘counter insurgency’ in the Middle East.
Every other military has to deal with like four or five regionally based scenarios at most.
I’ve got this special interest with regard to the amazingly-wide gulf between the perception of how effective the Amerikan military is, and how incompetent they actually are. tl;dr, practically all of our wargame simulations are heavily scripted-- when they don’t script how OPFOR “is supposed to act”(direct quote from one of the overseers of MC’02), OPFORs rungs lower on the tech ladder absolutely TPK our shit with low-tech methods. Millennium Challenge '02 is a prime example of the kind of fuckery the Joint Chiefs get up to fudging how effective our troops are.
Not to mention the problem with being a global hegemon is that you have to be the best at everything from jungle warfare, force projection across the ocean, European land wars with near-peer capabilities to ‘counter insurgency’ in the Middle East.
Every other military has to deal with like four or five regionally based scenarios at most.
USA: drone a wedding
Also USA: “Is that globally viable military doctrine?”