Ireland's prime minister does this too. Around election time he'll express "concern" about whatever problems he's been causing and warn people they're becoming a problem. Then once he's in he'll forget all about it and the press won't mention it.
- The operators aren't actually that close to the front, so if something goes wrong all that's been lost is some materiel. All the actual experience and knowledge is retained and reused from battle to battle.
- Training is easy, it's basically a video game. Let people play with them in a simulator until they get good at it, pick the best ones to train with the real ones.
I predict this shift in tactics will be roughly equivalent to the shift from cavalry to tanks, or from battleships to aircraft carriers.
> That said, a little birdie tells me that aircraft and propelled weapons supremacy belongs to Russia.
Eh... maybe. It's kind of a shit-show tbh. All major militaries are embarassingly bad.
Mostly I'm amazed how slow both sides are to adopt drone technology. Like if I were running things I'd develop a remotely operated hex copter rifle. Like imagine each infantryman commanding three guns which he can maneuver at the speed of a jeep and hide behind just about anything. And even if you destroy them he has thousands more waiting in a depot.
We have the tech to make that a reality now, but no one's taking it seriously.
Nah, it goes beyond that in chinkland. If you render any assistance at all they can later claim you caused harm and the reason their back was broken in three places was because you held their head wrong, not because they got hit by a truck.
Most countries have good samaritan laws to prevent that so that provided you do reasonably sensible things in good faith you're not held to the same standards as medical professionals.
Being honest... what modern ships can stand up to much of an attack? They don't carry any really heavy armour anymore, and apparently none of them can stop a serious missile barrage.
I suspect the tide turned in favour of a dust rather than deathstar approach sometime in the 80s when advances in computing made cheap guided missiles practical.
If this is the case then the only good reason for making a ship big is for range and possibly handling in heavy seas. The strategy should be to produce smaller ships packed with as many missiles and drones as possible.
If the US did adopt that approach they'd probably be able to moor spare fleets in a few out of the way places and fly in the crews. Kinda like they do with tanks on pre-positioning ships.