I prefer reading about strat behind it. I like how USA spent $6 trillion in the Middle East with all the best training and tech but still lost to Iran and the Taliban anyway.
No I mean reading about Iran and Talibans strategy. They'd do shit like turn a pair of nobodies into a mortar team and just constantly harass bases with hit and run. No intention to kill anyone, it was just to force the base to react to it. And they'd do this day in and day out which costs resources and stresses people out because they'd trigger military procedures which people have to follow. Iran played a 20 year campaign of doing tiny hits and forcing USA to react to them in ways that would make USA seem like an aggressor and get US condemned in public opinion. It worked.
No I mean reading about Iran and Talibans strategy. They'd do shit like turn a pair of nobodies into a mortar team and just constantly harass bases with hit and run. No intention to kill anyone, it was just to force the base to react to it. And they'd do this day in and day out which costs resources and stresses people out because they'd trigger military procedures which people have to follow. Iran played a 20 year campaign of doing tiny hits and forcing USA to react to them in ways that would make USA seem like an aggressor and get US condemned in public opinion. It worked.
Why don't you go back to getting beat up for looking at a woman, monkey?
>spent $6 trillion
Imagine being the average tax payer in America and just accepting that your labor is being directly sent to the pockets of a military industry oligarch's pocket.
It's an intrinsic behavior that transcends human definitions. Everything goes to war; apes, ants, amoebas, ideas. War is a fundamental concept that encompasses any form of conflict where one party changes the state of reality while being opposed by another party. If you don't understand war, you don't understand anything.
Also I'm male and a life of producing testosterone makes me predisposed to enjoy and appreciate fighting and other complex, dangerous forms of work.
This, my main interest has always been in seeing what innovative shit the militaries of the world can come up with. A lot of it eventually trickles down to the public so everyone wins really (except the people on the receiving end of the weapons I guess).
Because I was raised by a man who wanted to be a marine but had a busted knee and couldn’t so he tried to live vicariously through me until right about the time I was old enough to join and he flipped and started worrying I’d get Ied’d or shot by an insurgent because I was too nice.
Now I like it because I never got the chance to watch the light go out of someone’s eyes as a result of the ultimate test of fitness to live.
Because it's the moment when man is laid bare. His deepest fears, desires, regrets, accomplishments, and every secret left unsung are put on full blast as the situation strips away all the emotional and mental insulation we put on ourselves to function normally. To see a man in the thick of it is to see his Id, to see the face that can never be shown in polite society.
Plus the methods we've created to kill our fellow man is equal parts horrifying and beautiful. Think about Hiroshima, a city effectively deleted by a lone plane and bomb. Then think about all the manpower needed to build the Enola Gay, Fat Man, the entirety of The Manhattan Project, train the crew, get all three to an airfield where they could strike from. It's the collective accomplishment of hundreds if not thousands of people and dollars, a rare sight especially in these divided times to see a nation work to one goal. Like a symphony but the orchestra has rifles instead of instruments
Because it is important. Whether I like it or not, all problems at the most basic level ends up in violence, that is why it is in my best interest to be good at it, no matter how distasteful I find it.
Because all countries that neighbor Russia know that there isn't a non-existent chance of Russian neo-mongol hordes trying to destroy your country. The only thing that makes me happy about it is that even average me would be twenty times more competent in a war than anything but the most elite Russian units.
I am an antisocial fantasist. Combat, to me, is less of a reality and more of an exciting cartoon that I can play in my head over and over again, and my knowledge regarding the minutiae of obscure wars and small units tactics and stuff like that is a self-satisfying compensation for having no actual skills or creativity.
Super low barrier to entry, super basic job with a bunch of lore of being a great ((real)) man around it. Easy for my 80 IQ brain to understand. No thought / planning necessary. Hurrrr durrr diggidy-dig, hurr durrr, grazing fire. Hurrrr.
My interest in them is similar to the true crime fan's interest in serial killers - fascination purely from an outsiders' perspective. In spite of my hobbies, I'm actually super anti-war. I found this quote, from Napoleon's younger brother of all people, that conveys my thoughts pretty aptly:
>"To be in a position to change the destinies of peoples and nations… all that of course is fine and attractive and cannot but excite a young gentleman’s imagination. Unfortunately one must also face a very real truth, one quite contrary to that noble view, and that is that all war - apart from that of legitimate self-defense of one’s home and nation - is in fact nothing but the act of a barbarian, which is only distinguished from that of savages and wild beasts, by more satisfactory lies regarding its alleged necessity. Never forget, one must only go to war and fight for his own country, and for no others. Anyone who acts otherwise is just a mercenary, acting on contrived motives, or else is quite simply bloody minded."
- Louis Bonaparte in a letter to his young son, Louis "Napoleon III" Bonaparte
I prefer reading about strat behind it. I like how USA spent $6 trillion in the Middle East with all the best training and tech but still lost to Iran and the Taliban anyway.
>America
>strategy
No I mean reading about Iran and Talibans strategy. They'd do shit like turn a pair of nobodies into a mortar team and just constantly harass bases with hit and run. No intention to kill anyone, it was just to force the base to react to it. And they'd do this day in and day out which costs resources and stresses people out because they'd trigger military procedures which people have to follow. Iran played a 20 year campaign of doing tiny hits and forcing USA to react to them in ways that would make USA seem like an aggressor and get US condemned in public opinion. It worked.
That's not strategy. That's tactics. It's called harrassment. It's as old as war itself. Examples in the bible, Caesar's accounts etc.
Black person what
Why don't you go back to getting beat up for looking at a woman, monkey?
Mutt's salty
monkey's moronic
He's spamming like 4 different threads. Not worth your time, he's a worthless baiting homosexual.
>spent $6 trillion
Imagine being the average tax payer in America and just accepting that your labor is being directly sent to the pockets of a military industry oligarch's pocket.
literally every country on earth you obsessed Black person
You act like the American MIC isn’t incredibly based
It's an intrinsic behavior that transcends human definitions. Everything goes to war; apes, ants, amoebas, ideas. War is a fundamental concept that encompasses any form of conflict where one party changes the state of reality while being opposed by another party. If you don't understand war, you don't understand anything.
Also I'm male and a life of producing testosterone makes me predisposed to enjoy and appreciate fighting and other complex, dangerous forms of work.
Yeah bro, I just need it man.
It is a massive catalyst for technology, innovation, and creativity.
This, my main interest has always been in seeing what innovative shit the militaries of the world can come up with. A lot of it eventually trickles down to the public so everyone wins really (except the people on the receiving end of the weapons I guess).
It doesn't but you have to play by the rules
The stakes are high, it results in entertaining content
cuz people start liking each other again.
Because I was raised by a man who wanted to be a marine but had a busted knee and couldn’t so he tried to live vicariously through me until right about the time I was old enough to join and he flipped and started worrying I’d get Ied’d or shot by an insurgent because I was too nice.
Now I like it because I never got the chance to watch the light go out of someone’s eyes as a result of the ultimate test of fitness to live.
It involves cool machines, I don't really care about the rest
It's just a chill time with the boys
It’s natural, intrinsic, and a necessity
I like reading about the Russian strategy during this war. It makes me think I could be a general.
It doesn’t. I don’t wanna die in some shitty hole hallucinating my mother and wife begging for the bleeding to stop
Society operates off violence, implied and actual. It's as intristic to complex life as eating and sleeping.
It looks much easier in pictures and also I am a reservist and time makes memories sweet, especially from youth
probably growing up playing videogames centralized around war, so I instinctively associate it with fun
it's a testosterone thing. you wouldn't understand.
Because violence is the supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
Kill Black folk
Well what's stopping you young edgelord?
Because it's the moment when man is laid bare. His deepest fears, desires, regrets, accomplishments, and every secret left unsung are put on full blast as the situation strips away all the emotional and mental insulation we put on ourselves to function normally. To see a man in the thick of it is to see his Id, to see the face that can never be shown in polite society.
Plus the methods we've created to kill our fellow man is equal parts horrifying and beautiful. Think about Hiroshima, a city effectively deleted by a lone plane and bomb. Then think about all the manpower needed to build the Enola Gay, Fat Man, the entirety of The Manhattan Project, train the crew, get all three to an airfield where they could strike from. It's the collective accomplishment of hundreds if not thousands of people and dollars, a rare sight especially in these divided times to see a nation work to one goal. Like a symphony but the orchestra has rifles instead of instruments
Because it is important. Whether I like it or not, all problems at the most basic level ends up in violence, that is why it is in my best interest to be good at it, no matter how distasteful I find it.
It's art
Because all countries that neighbor Russia know that there isn't a non-existent chance of Russian neo-mongol hordes trying to destroy your country. The only thing that makes me happy about it is that even average me would be twenty times more competent in a war than anything but the most elite Russian units.
Congrats, you are the only one in the thread so far who sounds like reddit.
Why is water wet? Why is the sky blue? It's just our nature anon.
I am an antisocial fantasist. Combat, to me, is less of a reality and more of an exciting cartoon that I can play in my head over and over again, and my knowledge regarding the minutiae of obscure wars and small units tactics and stuff like that is a self-satisfying compensation for having no actual skills or creativity.
Super low barrier to entry, super basic job with a bunch of lore of being a great ((real)) man around it. Easy for my 80 IQ brain to understand. No thought / planning necessary. Hurrrr durrr diggidy-dig, hurr durrr, grazing fire. Hurrrr.
My interest in them is similar to the true crime fan's interest in serial killers - fascination purely from an outsiders' perspective. In spite of my hobbies, I'm actually super anti-war. I found this quote, from Napoleon's younger brother of all people, that conveys my thoughts pretty aptly:
>"To be in a position to change the destinies of peoples and nations… all that of course is fine and attractive and cannot but excite a young gentleman’s imagination. Unfortunately one must also face a very real truth, one quite contrary to that noble view, and that is that all war - apart from that of legitimate self-defense of one’s home and nation - is in fact nothing but the act of a barbarian, which is only distinguished from that of savages and wild beasts, by more satisfactory lies regarding its alleged necessity. Never forget, one must only go to war and fight for his own country, and for no others. Anyone who acts otherwise is just a mercenary, acting on contrived motives, or else is quite simply bloody minded."
- Louis Bonaparte in a letter to his young son, Louis "Napoleon III" Bonaparte
I dont know if it "appeals" to me. Its fascinating academically
Maybe when I was a kid. When you get older and smarter, you know better.
you are a good 40 years behind, boomer. All your homosexual left wing friends now love corporations and cry black power.
>socialism
>grown up
Back to twitch.
it doesn't, im more of a evacuate civilians and wounded soldiers from the front lines kind of guy
thats the lords work