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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

US generals are not idiots

while i agree with everything else in your post, a lot of them absolutely are very, very stupid

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Honestly, we shouldn't assume they'll always do stupid things, but they will do stupid things.

How they handled this training exercise rlly maeks me think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002


edit: and then I scrolled down and saw people already discussing it lol