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- Comment on Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships? 1 hour ago:
So a lot of people are saying supply chain or logistics without really explaining well. So I’ll give it a try.
It is impossible to overstate how important supply lines are to fighting a war. Each branch of the military has a whole arm of their organization dedicated to getting supplies to where they are needed. In any given war this means setting up regular purchases of supplies, bases to aggregate those supplies, routes with bases for each leg of the journey of those supplies, and bases at the destination of those supplies. With dedicated protection for all those parts of the journey. Which still has to get from the in-theater supply hub to the front.
Ideally for a carrier group you would use massive supply ships in a daisy chain to maintain a continuous flow of supplies. The supply hub isnt supposed to be close enough to come under enemy fire, and helicopters are relatively short range and not suitable for this purpose.
So the problem is that iran has shown that with drones it can hit big slow ships in the gulf, and regionally can hit anywhere with balistic missiles and drones. So they damaged or destroyed most us regional bases, hitting the main supply hub.
What to do about that? Well they could set up another regional hub, but that would probably get hit too. They can use a base far enough away to not get hit, but that means relying on more big slow ships to maintain the steady flow, but they would need protection, except ts hard to say what protection can be given against suicide drones.
This is would be a huge headache or any career general with a lifetime of experience. What they have is a drunk tv personality who surrounds himself with sycophants, and who’s taking orders from a geriatric child with dementia.
Add to this the longevity of the deployment. Most world militaries are very timid at exerting their big expensive assets at full strength unless its an actual war because that wears them out really fast. America is the only country that does this regularly. In other words, the deployment time for a carrier group is pretty well set in stone with some wiggle room. They know how long they can keep it up at full activity.
It’s not even a matter of supplies, its a giant steel city floating on salt water firing jets into the sky shooting down potential threats when it cant evade them. This is a structure under stress that can’t be fixed with a few nuts and bolts. There are parts that can only be overhauled at a port that have probably run long overdue.
The personnel problem is oddly the smallest. They could rotate people easily on the supply ships, if the whole shitshow werent run by such huge assholes.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 12 hours ago:
Fire emblem three houses. So pretty awesome as lady Byleth, depending on the choice i make. But no matter what im a super powered advisor to a world leader witha hit girlfriend (Dorothea).
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 6 days ago:
You dont understand, we cant afford to campaign on popular social welfare, or popular taxes on rich people, or protecting those popular rights you people are always going on about, or preventing the very unpopular corruption, and we definitely cant capaign on the very popular subject of the epstein files. Right now we have to worry about electability by showing moderate republicans we can reach across the aisle.
- Comment on We might soon have the technology to reach other star systems 1 week ago:
To be fair, we already have the technology to reach other star systems, just not in any useful time frame.
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of movies in the 50s and 60s that werent so much war propaganda as they were soldier’s experience. Since their audience was people who’d been through war already. You see a certain style of humor of soldiers not heroically leaping into battle, but desperatwly trying to avoid fighting entirely, and when their is fighting trying as hard as they can to survive more than amything else. Certainly there were propaganda films then that did treat soldiers as heroes, also fuck john wayne, but its in the 70s and 80s that those types of movies disappeared and all war movies became heroic, and even non-war action movies became pro-war.
- Comment on Pentagone leader Peter Hegseth in the Capitol. This is what power looks like. 4 weeks ago:
I just see a douche surrounded by pigs.
- Comment on Coping Mechanisms 5 weeks ago:
I comment on shit posts!
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 month ago:
Bush 2 was a failson who was largely well intentioned, but also had no idea what his dad’s friends were doing in his cabinet. His second term he started taking a more proactive role when he realized how he was responsible for a lot of the fuckery going on around him. At the same time, Iraq was all his baby. I don’t say this to absolve him of anything, he was a shit president, but he was about as shitty as any other nepobaby that managed to fail into high office.
- Comment on Examples of roles where actors from Star Trek give better performances than they did on Star Trek? 1 month ago:
- Comment on The real deal 1 month ago:
Yes, im checking for cracks, but when i found a good carton? Yeah, that’s the good shit. It’s all there. We doin this deal.
In my head.
- Comment on In the US it's Father's Day weekend, so happy Father's Day not just to you American dads but to all you dads wherever you are. 1 month ago:
You know you start one or two (possibly more) apocalypses centered around your severely neglected son piloting a giant proto-being super robot that traumatizes him nearly every time he gets into it all in the hopes of turning your wife-clone daughter who you spend creepy amounts of alone time with into a conduit for contacting your dead wife who’s soul may or may not have been absorbed into said robot thereby recreating her into a death goddess who absorbs the souls of everyone on earth suddenly everybody thinks your a bad father.
- Comment on We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It. 2 months ago:
What’s interesting to me is that you look at him these days he looks miserable. Like he genuinely hates what he’s doing. All the idealism he had before has been sucked right out along with his soul. But clearly he still thinks if he just gets through it will all have been worth it.
- Comment on Punk rock 2 months ago:
There’s a whole lot of bands that should be above the sex pistols and the Ramons.
- Comment on Is there a community for cursed pictures? 2 months ago:
I hate this meme. Every damn time it pops up.
- Comment on Do you think that these CBS employees should unionize and go on strike? 2 months ago:
Yes they all should.
- Comment on Why do you care if a photo is AI or not? 2 months ago:
I think it’s also emblematic of how corrupt our system has become. We don’t have money or housing for the unhoused. We don’t have power for an all electric vehicle transport system. We must baby step every little inch of progress and fight tooth an nail as services are cut out from under us.
Yet these data centers spring up out of nowhere taking our water before we can drink it, and consuming power that our communities already paid for. Our representatives sell our services to take care of them because corruption is just lobbying. They dump pollution and excess heat into our communities during a climate catastrophe.
And it’s all for a technology that has a rather small use case where it works well, but is being crammed into everything whether it needs it or not making perfectly good tech into barely functional crap. All so that like ten white dudes can hoard more wealth, and control more and more aspects of all of our lives.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 2 months ago:
Klingons got retconned in motion picture. Can’t blame TNG for that.
- Comment on That kid was the WORST 3 months ago:
Honestly 14 year old me might not like what I do, but I wish she could have found out then what I would finally become.
- Comment on It do be like that tho 3 months ago:
Still better than business doing the same thing.
- Comment on Just animal noises 3 months ago:
I dont expect to make it to 80 unless I somehow manage to survive my country losing world War 3 and stull having to go to work cause capitalists stole what little I had saved for retirement.
- Comment on New strat about to happen 🚨 3 months ago:
Thank you,that was just the information I was looking for.
- Comment on New strat about to happen 🚨 3 months ago:
When did Spiderman’s friend become the ceiling of sex?
- Comment on Cleverly titled 4 months ago:
I liked the first book. As long as you take it for what it is, 80s nostalgia fluff it’s a solid mindless read. Ready player 2 was just not good. Not even as fluff. Really all over the place, the main character was not the main character, and im not sure that Cline realized it.
the last starfighter fanficArmada, just dont.
