In order to understand American military doctrine you need to understand a few things. First we’re an engineering power masquerading as a military and cultural one. Second we had three major advantages in the world wars: we came in late to both, our civilians and manufacturing capacity were on the other side of the world, and we had more experience with an industrial war than anyone else thanks to our civil war. And third, we know we’re insane and so does everyone else, sometimes that means we surprise Hitler, other times it means we accidentally shell Mexico.

And yeah the guy who shelled Mexico? L. Ron Hubbard, founder of scientology back when he was in the navy.

I’m not even a little surprised Danes had to stop ourselves from shooting our own helicopters.