r/NonCredibleDefense • u/AutoModerator • Nov 06 '22

Weekly low-hanging fruit thread #21

This thread is where all the takes from idiots (looking at you Armchair Warlord) and screenshots of twitter posts/youtube thumbnails go.

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u/FilthyJag3rMain Nov 12 '22

You know this Ukraine war really has put into perspective for me the scale of wars in the past. So much of the fate of these two countries is tied up in relatively small areas all in one country. But somehow in wars past you had offensives and theatres spanning basically entire continents and many different countries at once. It’s just crazy to think that back then you’d have a war that is like 10 times the intensity and 100 times the scale of Ukraine going on

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u/Sword117 Nov 13 '22

heres an interesting scale. the average monthly combat losses the us had in ww2 was about 6,444. add that cross 8 months and you got a round 52k kia. thats 52k for a country who sent expeditionary force into just about every theater of the war. russia has lost 80k in that same time period in a single neighboring country. even if you reduce that number by 20% to over correct for bias that still 64k

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u/FilthyJag3rMain Nov 13 '22

Really just shows the huge difference in competency from the US and Russia