2026-07-18 15:55 UTC
@triz@normal.style it's honestly disrespectful to the scale of the victories at stalingrad and kursk and their enormous cost to imply that the initial success of the german offence was simply due to some nebulous element of surprise and that it then collapsed of itself
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@esvrld@normal.style 2026-07-18 16:01
@triz@normal.style as for america all its embarrassing defeats have been against opponents mounting a strategy of asymmetric resistance, as with (in, ofc, different ways) vietnam and iran. when american air superiority -centric warfare has encountered an attempt at symmetric resistance as it did in the gulf war it has been extremely effective (in a bare military if not necessarily political sense)
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@catus@normal.style 2026-07-18 21:35
@esvrld@normal.style @triz@normal.style you gotta hand it to them