what gets me about the mattis letter is the crowing about “lethality”
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that was the little “tell” if you will that made me think, hmm, something’s going on with this guy. he may not be 100% a goodie
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“improved responsiveness” ok sure but “lethality”, I dunno, I have never for a moment doubted the capacity of the US armed forces to kill a more than sufficient number of people at the drop of a hat
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it's also just a weird contradiction of decades of doctrine, everything has been driving in the direction of hideously wounding the enemy instead of killing them because a screaming, bleeding casualty generates a much greater operational and morale impact than a dead one
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