Not to be overly blithe but as a former SOF guy, SOF needs to have their entire population reduced by at least half while the remainder goes through re-education camps to 1)remove the influence of Iraq and Afghanistan and 2)build mission sets that actually support the joint force in LSCO

Immigration and naturalization services vs Lopez-Mendoza, 1984. Ruled that 4th amendment protections do not extend to immigration law.

“Magical Thinking” etc

There is something to this in that soldiers always seem to believe the enemy’s equipment is better. So even though the Sherman is by far the superior family of tanks, you can still find comments about their supposed weakness throughout oral testimonies from US and British tankers from the war.

I also doubt that our defeat in Afghanistan had anything to do with service members being too fat.

That entire speech felt like a re-litigation of 20-teens era online military squabbles.

Listen Gen Z not going on routine combat action badge safaris is starting to hurt them on promotion points

Technically Japan was not unconditional - the Japanese accepted terms provided that the Emperor remained the Emperor. It’s an important distinction to make, as if we had countered with a demand that Hirohito abdicate, I doubt we would have seen a Aug 15th ceasefire date.

I was very surprised to find out that she had come out vocally in favor of the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942. Another lesson that excellence in historical knowledge does not necessarily translate to excellence in current-day judgement, I suppose.

Minor note, but that is a JLTV, not a MRAP. They are both vehicles that have no business on public roads, visibility is extremely poor from the armored passenger cabin

I believe the Witcher does this a bit with some limited digressions on how Magic in Nilfgaard is completely controlled by the crown, while the Northern Kingdoms still have a guild system which is much more concerned with expanding its on power than assisting with crop yields