• kandoh@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    The highway system in america was built by Eisenhower after he came back from Europe because he saw how awesome the Autobahn was for moving tanks across the country. That’s why they’re raised like that, to support heavy tanks and artillery.

    American military can project force within the United States in a way that it couldn’t within Afghanistan.

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        5 months ago

        It’s central to a guerrilla war. Force projection is how guerrillas win. If you’re just stuck up in the hills, sucking your own dicks, nobody cares that you’re in opposition.