I recall reading a story about how the Germans were baffled when they discovered a giant ice cream machine among the ruins of a camp in Normandy. Even the Greatest Generation was sort of soft by international standards.
Show this thread
The WWII Germans regarded the Americans as spoiled: a German division only required 1/4th the weight of supplies to function. The Chicoms in Korea though had less than 1/12th the supplies of the Americans: "there are levels of survival we are prepared to accept".pic.twitter.com/ozh59fI5C9
-
-
-
"The American Way of War" is the philosophy that enough ice cream and big screen TVs will provide their men with a superhuman boost to morale that no enemy courage will be able to resist.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
You'll be disappointed.
End of conversation
-
-
-
Where’s this from?
-
The Korean War by Max Hastings
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
This just sounds like sour grapes tbh
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
And the differences in training between Germany's and America's soldiers, apparently the German manuals of the weihmacht were all piled up and burned, or so I read it
-
wasn't training so much, but elan and movement to action. Hastings talks about this in another book. The Germans soldiers, individually, were better than all the rest, but it was the result of a system that none of us should want; and in the end, it didn't matter.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
American Logistics win wars by sheer volume of supplies/bullets moved. Kind of like the Russian concept of just throwing infinite bodies into the grinder. Diversity is taking it's toll on the American Military Logistics System tho.
-
>muh Russian meat grinder meme
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.