Capturing ground is relative if you yeet an entire enemy force into extinction. I mean they no longer hold said ground because they no longer exist.But they arnt capturing ground are they.
Capturing ground is relative if you yeet an entire enemy force into extinction. I mean they no longer hold said ground because they no longer exist.But they arnt capturing ground are they.
Capturing ground is relative if you yeet an entire enemy force into extinction. I mean they no longer hold said ground because they no longer exist.
Sometimes you don't need boots on the ground, you just need to put a JDAM or Tomahawk in the right SoB's window, or wreck whatever allows your enemy to threaten you.But they arnt capturing ground are they.
Capturing ground is relative if you yeet an entire enemy force into extinction. I mean they no longer hold said ground because they no longer exist.
If you completely and totally destroy the enemy force and say anyone entering this territory other than us gets yeeted. You do own it. Fear of trespass is a thing you know. We have whole islands with no one living on it and it is counted as our territory.Until you put a 17 year old kid with a rifle on it, you dont own it.
I think a bunch of islands the US claims in the Pacific, and yet no one lives on, would act as a great counter-example to that. Those islands could be occupied with just a few squads, yet because of where they are, getting an invasion for to them would be farcical.You still don't own it.
It doesn't matter if there is nothing there. It isn't yours.
Army has its own boats.So then the Marines (or Paratroopers) go in to capture. Still waiting on the Army that needs the Air Force and Navy to get there...
Too busy capturing girls hearts I'm afraidBut they arnt capturing ground are they.
Dude!Too busy capturing girls hearts I'm afraid
Not UN soldiers either. Althought I guess they are more or less interchangeable.Dude!
They're not Satanists!
So then the Marines (or Paratroopers) go in to capture. Still waiting on the Army that needs the Air Force and Navy to get there...
Marines will disagreeThe Marines are just a Department of the Navy, so technically even when the Marines go in first, it's really the mighty US Navy.
Marines will disagree
PFFF-! Next thing you tell Bigfoots are real and having tea time with Roswell aliens every thursday.Smart Marines
Marines will disagree
Marines were originally a part of the Navy, if one goes back far enough. I don't know offhand if anyone other than America made them into a distinct "service".
Marines were originally a part of the Navy, if one goes back far enough. I don't know offhand if anyone other than America made them into a distinct "service".
Technically the Army National Guard was before it all being in thr 1600s.My favorite part of US military history is that the US Navy is actually older than the United States.
So technically the Navy is the senior military branch.
Edit: My poor bloody infantry cousin just informed me that the Congress of the Confederation established the army in June, while the navy wasn't established until October.
BUT, in my opinion, because of the fact that the same ships and crews that would become the navy were already attacking British ships before that, I should still be considered technically correct. Which is the best kind of correct.