Posted: Thu May 18, 2017 9:15 am
-Celibrae- wrote:You can't foist anything if the Air Force and Marines don't exist, amirite?
But then again the Marines are alright because they don't get enough money to sabotage anything. I suppose they're just superfluous.
They're beheld to the DoN for their budget. Which means remanufacturing existing equipment instead of making new things altogether. Which means working with known technologies rather than trying to reinvent themselves for mythical concepts of warfighting like "air-mechanization" and "strategic maneuver".
If M. Flynn is representative of DoA, I weep for America.
Rhodesialund wrote:Isn't there someone in the DoD that tells them to knock their shit off and stop fucking about?
Yes, the OSD.
What do you think Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gates did? Play golf?
Rhodesialund wrote:It's this kind of crap that made me put my nation under a single branch. No one can shift the blame when something goes wrong.
A dumb solution for a dumb world.
Now you have zero innovation and zero redundant hedges against failure. Good job. Might as well drive a car with a single screw holding the engine on. Or use a gun with a single locking lug. Or a helicopter with one wing.
Wait ignore the last one, that's actually super sensible.
DoA's problems are because it doesn't have a job in a post war world. Unlike the USAF and USN, there's no obvious reason for armies (or Marine Corpse) to exist besides parades showmanship. There's nothing that really screams "army" like a boat says "navy" or a plane says "air force". Armies are too complex for that, and the US Army tried to reinvent everything about itself between 1990 and 1999 because it was terrified that it was losing relevance. Of course, they weren't wrong, but they went about it in the most absurdly dumb way in hindsight.
If FCS had worked all fine and hunky dory the US Army would be fantastic.
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