Russians are employing this dastardly new technology called “mines” which no army on earth has encountered before, least of all those of the NATO members like France, Germany and the UK.

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    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      The most they’ve done is wargames and after the Millenium Challenge 2002 shit I don’t know if their wargames could even begin to count as an attempt to even model conflict with a near-peer

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        Should be noted that even then the US lost so comprehensively in the first day of combat that the generals restarted the entire thing and forced the side playing Iran to essentially sit on their hands

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            I haven’t heard that. I heard he made use of motorcycle messengers because he knew the us would disrupt other forms of communication, and that he swarmed the naval forces with tons of fast-moving small vessels rigged with explosives.