South Korean president is attempting a coup d'etat
(www.reuters.com)
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If the past few years have taught me anything, it's that advanced weaponry counts for less than people think. Just because the US can crush the Iraqi army like a bug, doesn't mean that technology will make the decisive difference between two sides where one doesn't outmatch the other by several orders of magnitude.
Sort of like World War I: if you have warm bodies to throw into the fight, and they don't desert like the Russians did, you can get very far.
So then as usual you didn't learn anything and you still think you get to talk about military matters from an armchair.
Technological parity or lack thereof is critically important, but neglecting manufacturing capability and the moral and physical fitness of the citizenry for it is a trap. One that the United States fell into at the behest of foreign interests and internal corruption.
Warfare is, among other things, a balancing act between force multipliers.
The other thing is that technology doesn't often mean what we think it does, like nerdy wonder weapons. The real tech advantage is the ability to create new things and adapt (or having already done so).
Like in the WWII Pacific we had no chance of getting close enough to Japan to even drop the nukes without the Proximity Fuse, which was a relatively low tech radar that exploded shells near targets so they didn't have to actually direct hit. Not a single kamikaze got through after we had those shells and then we controlled the sea.
Not exactly a chair, but sort of.
All the 'modernization' didn't help Russia. All the Wonder Weapons didn't help Ukraine. Now it's the same old grind.
Your last paragraph exposed even more ignorance than I'd thought.
Particularly given the rapid rise in drone warfare in the current conflict.
Probably the only example you could give. And drones are not that high-tech. That is why they're effective: they can be produced cheaply and in bulk by even countries like Ukraine and Iran.
My point is that it's not $22 billion stealth bombers making the difference. I'm sure you can pass on your usual "you're wrong about EVERYTHING" and admit that's it's correct once.
I can follow your thought process, but it's a faulty process. Any reasonable person knew the Ukrainian wunderwaffen were never going to be decisive.