The Viet Cong managed to do it. As did the Taliban. The Ukrainians are doing it to the Russians as we speak. There are plenty of asymmetrical tactics that would stop the US in their tracks. Hell, a few weeks ago, the DOD released a video about how the US military managed to drop a grenade from a drone. There are significant weaknesses in all that American might.
The US military is unrivaled in its ability to effectively defeat an enemy military. It’s proven pretty shitty at dealing with insurgencies and guerilla tactics.
Fighting against the US military with a tank or jet is a losing proposition. But randos with small arms and improvised explosives have performed pretty well.
Vietnam was a long time ago, Afghanistan didn’t really have a traditional military, and the Iraq military was absolutely curb-stomped by the Americans.
I made a comment that’s entire point is that the US is bad at occupations because it can’t deal with insurgencies. You countered with examples of it being defeated by insurgencies. I pointed out that those examples were insurgencies, and now you’re acting like it’s some kind of sudden twist in my argument that I think they’re bad against insurgencies.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to argue. Are you just not capable of agreeing with someone without being a dick about it?
Guerilla Warfare and Terrorism have been extremely useful tactics against large forces. The main reason America exists at all is because of Guerilla Warfare by American Militias against the mighty British Army, the most powerful military on the planet at the time.
Nah, we can nuke the entire surface clean and not disturb much under the soil. You realize they can easily detonate in air, right? Like, we have bunker busters sure but thats not the only way a bomb can explode.
I’ll even add we have completely radiation free nukes at this point. Clean the surface and then move in weeks later. Guess they are nnot nukes but some other classification but nonetheless no rads and magnituds larger than Hiroshima.
You’re thinking of fusion bombs. They’re absolutely not zero radiation they just don’t release as much as you would expect given these size of the explosion. But they absolutely do release radiation.
Much of the destruction from fusion bombs comes from the implosion rather than the explosion. Not that the initial explosion isn’t highly also destructive. In an airbus situation it basically picks things off the ground and flings them into the air that several times the speed of sound. Any oil rig that is already in place is going to get violently ripped out of the ground along with a lot of the underground piping. At the very least that is going to cause a massive leak and probably catch fire. The last time a gas fire like that happened the Russians actually had to use a nuke to put it out.
The Viet Cong managed to do it. As did the Taliban. The Ukrainians are doing it to the Russians as we speak. There are plenty of asymmetrical tactics that would stop the US in their tracks. Hell, a few weeks ago, the DOD released a video about how the US military managed to drop a grenade from a drone. There are significant weaknesses in all that American might.
The US military is unrivaled in its ability to effectively defeat an enemy military. It’s proven pretty shitty at dealing with insurgencies and guerilla tactics.
Fighting against the US military with a tank or jet is a losing proposition. But randos with small arms and improvised explosives have performed pretty well.
And yet the USA continually loses wargames: https://breakingdefense.com/2019/03/us-gets-its-ass-handed-to-it-in-wargames-heres-a-24-billion-fix/
Don’t believe anything they say. It’s all propaganda and psyop.
Except in Vietnam. And Iraq. And Afghanistan.
Vietnam was a long time ago, Afghanistan didn’t really have a traditional military, and the Iraq military was absolutely curb-stomped by the Americans.
“hurr durr I said ‘military’ so insurgency doesn’t count!”
I made a comment that’s entire point is that the US is bad at occupations because it can’t deal with insurgencies. You countered with examples of it being defeated by insurgencies. I pointed out that those examples were insurgencies, and now you’re acting like it’s some kind of sudden twist in my argument that I think they’re bad against insurgencies.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to argue. Are you just not capable of agreeing with someone without being a dick about it?
Guerilla Warfare and Terrorism have been extremely useful tactics against large forces. The main reason America exists at all is because of Guerilla Warfare by American Militias against the mighty British Army, the most powerful military on the planet at the time.
Funny enough you can nuke oilfields and still get oil.
Only if the oil fields haven’t yet been tapped. If it’s deep underground then there’s very little that can affect them.
Nah, we can nuke the entire surface clean and not disturb much under the soil. You realize they can easily detonate in air, right? Like, we have bunker busters sure but thats not the only way a bomb can explode.
I’ll even add we have completely radiation free nukes at this point. Clean the surface and then move in weeks later. Guess they are nnot nukes but some other classification but nonetheless no rads and magnituds larger than Hiroshima.
You’re thinking of fusion bombs. They’re absolutely not zero radiation they just don’t release as much as you would expect given these size of the explosion. But they absolutely do release radiation.
Much of the destruction from fusion bombs comes from the implosion rather than the explosion. Not that the initial explosion isn’t highly also destructive. In an airbus situation it basically picks things off the ground and flings them into the air that several times the speed of sound. Any oil rig that is already in place is going to get violently ripped out of the ground along with a lot of the underground piping. At the very least that is going to cause a massive leak and probably catch fire. The last time a gas fire like that happened the Russians actually had to use a nuke to put it out.
Right. Thats what i said.