PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
There is a budget for payroll, if it is not spent by the end of the fiscal year it might get reduced, which means reduced leeway for corruption.
Re McNamara's low IQ recruits - I've seen it argued that it was not a bad idea per se but botched. There are many tasks which do not require neither intelligence nor initiative in the military - putting those boys there would had been a Good Thing to everybody concerned. Shelves in warehouses get stocked/potatoes get peeled, helicopters get waxed etc., while better quality recruits go to where they should be - like the PBI.
A usually sensible poster on either on AH-com or on SB. I think ... I'm old and I've been in the internets for too long ...Who specifically did you see make this argument, though?
I'd draw a line thereTruck drivers.
True.I'd draw a line there
I'd prefer 20+ ton vehicles near me not being driven by people who have to rediscover which tap delivers cold water every morning
A ride-on grass mower (and painting the lawn green afterward, as is the Army Way) - OK. But don't give them 18 wheelers ...
Question - what did the USA do with the several thousand Hotchkiss 1914 machineguns in 8mm French it bought for the AEF?
Which wars resembled trench warfare? Some examples off the top of my head:
*Eastern theater of the American Civil War
*Western Front of World War I
*Iran-Iraq War
*Donbass War
*Russo-Ukrainian War
What else?
Torres Vedras Lines
A usually sensible poster on either on AH-com or on SB. I think ... I'm old and I've been in the internets for too long ...
Which quick wars were there with a notable historical impact? I can think of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, but which other wars would qualify for this? One could think of the Western Front campaign in WWII in 1940, but that was just one campaign in a much larger and longer war.
I want to focus on countries that were roughly peer competitors to one another rather than grossly mismatched, such as with the 1983 US invasion of Grenada or the 1990-1991 Gulf War, where the power mismatch between the warring sides was extraordinarily uneven.
NoDo you remember the online location of the relevant post?
No
Search for "McNamara's Morons"?