• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      cold war era advanced armament

      trench warfare

      My noncredible friend in christ, that is actually happening right now in Ukraine.

      Similarly mind blowing though.

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      War, war never changes, from sticks and spears, to arrows and bullets, the old and bitter send the young and dumb to kill each other for their interests.

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      But it led to arguably the COOLEST combat engineering ever - Iraq destroyed all the roads through a marsh and ELECTRIFIED THE MARSH when a column of soldiers came through.

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      The Iran/Iraq border is mountainous, the Zagros mountain range. Easy to fortify, hard to attack.