harmonica
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maybe in an extreme cold climate --maybe....but not other climates.........I've been all over Europe and South America--I've trained with MANY countries' military...and many are NOT as good as us ...Most countries are tougher than the United States, we are soft, both literally (fat), and figuratively, in ground combat.
Our advantage has always been technology and the highest volume of firepower, but that did shit in the jungles of Vietnam, and has done squat in Afghanistan. In terms of one to one, other less advanced countries have a toughness advantage, because it is bred into them. Not everyone in those countries relies on their smartphone, their social media, their central air and furnace, etc, etc. etc., so yea, of course they will be tougher. But can they saturate the ground with high explosives like this country can? Probably not, considering so much of our 20 trillion dollars a year GDP gets wasted on the latest whiz bang, high tech weaponry.
..I've trained with the French Foreign Legion, Italians, Spanish, Venezuelans --all over South America....etc etc
Yea, I get it, and that's what sets the U.S. military apart from the rest of the world: training. Our training is the best, but I'm not talking spec. ops., I'm not even talking your average 11B, I'm talking about the toughness that comes from working outside in the bitter cold Russian steppe, or knowing from a young age on how to survive off the land and move thru the forests and jungles on other continents. Americans are, by and large, urbanized. We are something like 5% of the worlds population and consume 25% of its resources.
Of course, their militaries can't match ours, their training can't match ours, but in terms of toughness? I think they match up very favorably against Americans in that respect.
..and it's a system that counts--air/ground/etc combined arms...and the air has it's own system-AWACS/fighters/Weasals/etc....logistics...etc ....and the ground units have a system--arty/logistics/combat troops/etc .
..and then the ground and air work together
..so there is much more to it than being ''weak''/strong/etc