By the end of Trump’s third term the army will be reduced to fighting with muskets and redigging Bunker Hill because that was good enough to beat the British. The Marines will look like the 90s recruiting ads, and the Airforce will be spending everything on the F-47 and bigger pointier missiles. The Navy will go over budget trying to redesign a coal power plant in the Trump class battleship and have nothing to show for it.
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... after Ukraine pioneered such tactics in its yearslong conflict with Russia
Doubtless they meant to write 'after Ukraine pioneered such tactics during the yearslong invasion by Russia'.
This administration really likes losing wars.
Learned literally nothing from their failures in iran...
Is it odd that I am kinda pissed off they keep saying army but not whose army until the end?
We are so lucky nobody's decided to test our conventional warfare capability (yet).
Trump is very obviously actively gutting it.
How’d this guy get Putin charge?
Sounds like an order straight from Russia to US army
Well it is a department of war and not one of victory.
Drones are too expensive and Amazon needs them for deliveries, use meat shields instead, it's cheaper.
it wasnt that long ago that ukraine's relatively small drone division decimated eu armored division in a wargame. what changed?
Trump decided that WW2 boats look cooler, so we're down grading the military
Gabe Newell will be nominated next Navy secretary because Trump heard he made billions off of steam and he wants to change the jet catapults to steam
i was bit confused then realizes its the american army not the eu one . d'oh
Drones gonna be laughing when they killing dudes with super testosterone jumping out of planes like pigs in a barrel.
Next they're gonna order the pawns fo use black powder rifles and bayonets.
Or, maybe the mainland gonna be attacked soon.
Or, maybe the mainland gonna be attacked soon.
False flagged.
Drones are going to be completely useless. It’s the unfairness of advancements.
What's next? Invade Russia in winter?
With this timeline:
"They said it couldn't be done but im going to do it. We got top ppl. Let me tell you about these beautiful high testosterone ppl im sending. All straight ill add." Etc etc
Follow by
"No body knew it was going to be this hard"
We've seen the face of warfare change with drones in Ukraine and Iran allowing an outnumbered force to hold off aggressors.
Trump shuts off civilian drones with lidar or infrared, now this military program. It's almost like he does not want anyone who may offer opposition to the have latest technology.
His good friends Vladimir and Jung-Un don’t want him to have drones. Neither does his best buddy Bibi, he wants to be able to sell his country’s expertise
Gonna be for the election.
No, there is an actual explanation.
Telescopes cause near-earth asteroids. Just like tax audits cause tax fraud or covid tests caused case numbers.