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Weapons of Gas Production
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It makes sense. A military is only as good as its logistics, and the US’ forward bases are the tips of very long spears, dependant on a lot of logistics. So you need to have the means to have a continuous pipeline of supplies to each outpost. In peacetime, you keep that open by supplying the troops with burgers, tacos, XBox games or whatever; if the shit does hit the fan, all that capacity can be diverted from tortillas and patties to ammunition, drones, amphibious landing craft or whatever, at short notice.
Knowing the US military Logistics, that won't be a diversion; it'll be an addition. A friendly reminder that we deployed Fucking ice cream barges, barges with the singular purpose of making ice cream, to the South Pacific during WW2.
Supposedly a Japanese POW saw the barges, and knew at that moment that the war was lost, as the US could afford to supply servicemembers with ice cream, while Japan was facing widespread rationing and food shortages at home. (But I can't find any confirmation of this story)
Believe Napoleon was the one quoted for An army marches on its stomach.
It isn't all about calories but also morale as they knew then.
An army marches on its feet and fights on its stomach. Good boots and good rations win wars.
(Since modern armies maneuver in vehicles more than by foot you can replace boots with vehicles but the core concept still holds)
There is the same story about a German officer realizing that after discovering US soldiers had chocolate bars on them.