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US Navy denies food shortages after grim photos emerge from blockade ships
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In the past, I've read that the US Navy ships are on skeleton crews already, and not anywhere near as effective as they used to be. For example, they've struck civilian ships due to short staffing and lack of lookouts. Maintenance is a huge problem.
This was some years ago, and it was already a total mess. Is it worse now? Looks like
Also, I think meals like this indicate graft somewhere in the supply chain, or some kind of colossal fuck up. We're a lot closer to 90s Russia than we like to think.
ETA found the article, from 2019
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/
"It’s getting harder and harder I think for us to look the troops in the eye."
Makes one really wonder where this massive budget for the military actually goes if not into the military.
Overpriced contracts with near monopolist defense manufacturers
Indeed. I am told it's the best military in the world. I believe it's just the most expensive.
Raytheon enters the chat.
Well, the Drone Autonomous Warfare Groups (DAWG) requested a budget larger than the Navy's, so I'm thinking it goes to whatever's the current financial grift going around. AI these days.
It's called skunk works because something always stinks about the whole affair
Mabus sounds like a real dumbass
Like it's true but usually that quantity needs to have a minimum standard. Throw a million men at 500,000 Nazis and you end up with a million corpses, give those men Mosin Nagants that mostly work and you have a million and a quarter corpses but also no Nazis. It's a bit of a shit method but it works, so long as you know what you're doing and can actually do it.
Just a side-note: The Soviets didn't beat the Nazis with Mosin Nagants.
They beat them after they had learnt to apply combined arms tactics and a sophisticated defense-in-depth strategy that protected them from counter-attacks, had more AND better tanks than the German average, a higher percentage of mechanized troops, and a 10x superiority in artillery pieces.
The "human wave with commissars shooting anyone who retreats" myth is mostly post-war propaganda.
We know that they used human wave tactics in Finnish war and defense of Stalingrad from the people that were there
They learned quickly, though, wave attacks weren't the norm
Ukrainians say they are using human wave attacks now. Russians call them "meat storms"
Yes, they did use those tactics in the war, indeed.
But not from 1943 on, when they started to beat the Nazis back in earnest.
I'm aware. I wasn't even thinking about the war as a whole but moreso the desperate defense against operation Barborosa and the Soviet throwing whatever they had at the Germans.