re: What’s the functional purpose of the Army and Marines at this point?

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Yep. The politicians are terrified of using ground forces again. Citizens have been conditioned that “boots on the ground” is about as equivalent as launching a nuclear warhead.

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Modern Americans don’t have the willpower to fight a real war which is why we haven’t fought a real war since WWII.

The Iran problem is super easy to fix you you stop pussyfooting around and do the things necessary to win, but “that’s immoral” and “that’s a “war crime”

No. Bitch. The only crime in war is forcing the combatants to hold a leg and arm behind their back and try to fight a war with muh feelz.

When you wage war you wage absolute war. You make it so absolutely overwhelmingly horrible for the other side to exist that they cry mommy. And if they don’t cry mommy you kill them all until someone finally steps up and does cry mommy.

Anything less is a crime that simply drags a war on for years and years and increases the cost, suffering, and destruction that could have been ended in months.


Dead sons can’t grow up to avenge dead fathers. That’s how you end the cycle.

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I said in OP outside of deterrence

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By paying attention to politics. Pretty easy.

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Then it should be easy to tell me.

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It’s pretty self explanatory.

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Yet you can't explain it.

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Yet you can't explain it.

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Shouldn’t have to explain the current political landscape to anyone who pays attention.

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Again... YOU DON'T KNOW. Technology has weak points. As pointed out earlier, an EMP or carrington level CME would render all technology useless. The Army is pushing to strengthen Soldiers' analog skills in case of such an event. When we had air supremacy over Germany in WWII, we still had to mass ground forces to secure victory. You can't win a war without controlling the ground.

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I agree completely. Our problem is we don’t have the willpower politically to deploy ground forces again.

Where do you people come from?

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Modern Americans don’t have the willpower to fight a real war which is why we haven’t fought a real war since WWII.

The Iran problem is super easy to fix you you stop pussyfooting around and do the things necessary to win, but “that’s immoral” and “that’s a “war crime”

No. Bitch. The only crime in war is forcing the combatants to hold a leg and arm behind their back and try to fight a war with muh feelz.

When you wage war you wage absolute war. You make it so absolutely overwhelmingly horrible for the other side to exist that they cry mommy. And if they don’t cry mommy you kill them all until someone finally steps up and does cry mommy.

Anything less is a crime that simply drags a war on for years and years and increases the cost, suffering, and destruction that could have been ended in months.

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History would suggest that you have a point but aren't completely right here. We backed the Iraqis in a brutal war against the Iranians that lasted almost a decade. We gave them munitions and even chemical weapons. The Iranians by moderate estimates lost 750K people in that war. They're still standing and they're still a problem. Most of their population doesn't support the regime. How severe are you willing to take things against a regime that does not care about their people? What do civilians being massacred get you?

I actually like you and don't think you're a moron like a lot of the clowns here. But how far are you willing to go? Is 3 million civilian deaths justifiable?

So you're basing your idiotic theory that Americans will never support "boots on the ground" and we no longer need ground forces solely on the fact that they don't support them in Iran. That about right?

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I agree completely. Our problem is we don’t have the willpower politically to deploy ground forces again.

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People thought that before both WWI and WWII.

"Political willpower" is not cemented permanently. Politics is one of the most fickle and unpredictable things on earth.