Andrew Sage
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Nothing else is necessary in militaries now.
It's nothing but bombers from here.
And if you have enough bombers, no one will ever attack you.
And this logic has always been wrong.
And it's also every new generation of like military leaders, especially in like air, the air power field are like, all we need is airstrikes.
You don't need to send in ground.
You can accomplish all of your goals, all of your power projection just by bombing people or shooting missiles at them.
And they're always wrong.
It's just not effective.
Like, I think the Trump administration is somewhat, I don't want to say high on its own supply.
They had success in Syria with removing the territorial caliphate, mostly using U.S.
It wasn't a big U.S.
But that was the U.S.
There was still, as you know, James, a shitload of Kurdish fighters.
In Syria and then, yeah, yeah, yeah.