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nowaypablo · 3934 days ago · link · · parent · post: US Army: "We have no idea how to fight in megacities"
- It isn't militarily advantageous to flatten the civilian population. In an ideal battle you leave the civilian infrastructure intact and unharmed so that you aren't left with insurgent hell. The paper argues that your choices are to dresden the fuck out of your target or relive Blackhawk Down.
Okay you're right, but I honestly still don't see how we don't have the numbers. The U.S. Special Forces has 66,000 active duty personnel; there are over 200,000 active duty Marines with another ~40,000 on reserve. Now I understand they're spread thin all over the world let alone the fact that there are countless specializations that each unit is capable of, but it still doesn't make sense to say that we wouldn't be able to allocate the resources if we needed them. Perhaps it's my misunderstanding and the Strategic Study-whatever group is just warning that we're not prepared at this very moment.