• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Actually, with regards to the USS Abraham Lincoln, they actually can’t. They’ve mismanaged this war so poorly that they can’t actually accomplish the single most basic part of military management: logistics. Genghis Khan knew that he had to maintain supply lines to win wars. Julius Caesar knew it. Alexander the Great. Cyrus the Great. Chandragupta. Sun Tzu knew it. It’s the most basic, most obvious part of leading a military, and they failed at it so hard that sailors are jumping off of boats.

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      20 days ago

      WE DON’T NEED SUPPLIES! WE NEED MORE BULLETS AND MISSILES AND TESTOSTERONE!!!

      Tell me again why this isn’t a winning strategy? I see no flaws.

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      20 days ago

      Well of course Caesar, Alexander, Cyrus, Ghengis, etc knew about logistics, which is why their names echo through the eons, but what about everyone’s constantly hammered uncle?

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        19 days ago

        I really more meant that this has been common knowledge amongst military people for literally three millennia, not that you have to be a generational talent to figure it out, but that is a fair point.