Why do you need so many? Russia only has 23,000 tanks with 10,000 in reserve. UK only has about 400-600
But seriously brahs don't you think your army is a little overpowered? The biggest tank battle in history (Kursk) never even had 9,000 tanks combined.
I think your country is safe.
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08-16-2013, 08:05 AM #1
The power of the US military amazes me, brb 9000 tanks wtf usbrahs
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It gets even worse.
"The US military has a tradition where you spend your entire budget by Oct (the new fiscal year) or you risk losing that portion of your budget. I've been in units that would go out and purchase $200,000 worth of useless **** just to avoid having a budget surplus. Multiply by the number of units in the military (a **** ton) and you have all your fraud, waste and abuse."
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08-16-2013, 08:12 AM #12
Number of tanks isn't relevant brah, it depends on the situation the country faces. IE let me explain. The US should have the best fighter jets and marine, why? Cause they fighting conflicts at the other side of the world so a lot of R&D is spent on improving that. Russia, due to its vast territory has probably the best missile defence systems and ballistics, why? Because Russia is so large, it is near impossible to defend all that territory with ground men. Russian territory is too vast and their geopolitical threats faced don't require tanks, but missiles. A country that fears ground invasion eg due to hostile neighbours will have large number of tanks. Though yes, the US war machine is wasteful as hell.
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but the military is primarily conservative... i guess i dont see your point... do you think it even matters? im fiscally conservative but feel almost no one in government is... conservative now means you love jesus, hate gays and think science is a lie made up by liberals to undermine the bible
goldwater summed it up well
A million miles away - I don't.. feel.... anything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXGZu4yxjW0
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08-16-2013, 08:20 AM #24
the current US military was planned/designed/built in the 70s-80s with the purpose of ensuring the USSR knew it could never start a serious fight with the US/NATO and come out ahead (ie not loose as much in military or civilian casualties as NATO) and limiting the USSR to starting communist overthrows of governments and proxy wars (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, maintaining Iron Curtain)
9000 US tanks honestly wouldn't do crap against 3x that many soviet tanks steamrolling across all of Europe. It's also nothing in the context of WWII - US and USSR produced > 100,000 tanks each. US produced > 300,000 military airplanes in 5 years. compared to the current order for 2,400 F35s that are scheduled to be most of the air force/Navy/Marine air for the next 30 years.
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I agree, I'm also more fiscally conservative than just 'conservative'; I could care less about the whole 'marriage is for adam and eve' and abortion arguments and sht. I just think the government needs to be spending MUCH less money and have much less of it TO spend. It's not just the military that is inefficient with their money, it's pretty much every government organization ever created.
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"I work at a US lobbying firm, and I'm sure noone would be shocked to hear that US legislators are ignorant. You might be surprised just HOW ill-informed a lot of them are, though. Like the Congressman who believed David Cameron was a member of the Socialist party. Or the one that asked me why we called it Russia now, not the USSR. Or the Senator who told me he'd grown up drinking sea water, and it was healthier for you. Or the governor who thought all Jews were killed by Hitler. The list could go on."
"I worked for a political consulting firm and was completely floored when congressmen/women would come in for media training (learning to be "normal" on camera or in front of constituents). Nearly every politician who came in for training was clueless and literally had "their views" on the issues fed to them by my boss (the media strategist). Sounds obvious, but it's really horrifying to witness."
"Millions -and I mean millions- of your tax dollars are absolutely, totally, wasted and/or stolen from United States embassies by almost everyone involved in any number of ways. Actual theft of property, actual theft of money, embezzlement, frequent extravagant parties, travel expenses, etc etc."
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