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I looked it up and the army has 6333 tanks. The 400 odd tanks they’re inheriting from the marines would be less than 10% 🤔 Sometimes I wonder what the army is for and why it’s so huge. The other 3 branches seem to do most of the work.
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From the article, ‘“Army is huge,” he said. “We need a big Army. They win our wars. The Marine Corps doesn’t win the wars. We win the battles.”’
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‘Berger emphasized that the Army’s job is to be big, heavy and lethal while Marines must be light and expeditionary.’ Interesting job description in ‘to be’ terms rather than ‘to do’ terms.
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It’s like army and navy have traded places since Alfred Thayer Mahan’s time. Now it’s the army’s job to be, the navy’s job to do. Since the era of big land wars kinda ended and American wars now are increasingly carried based.
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I’m enough of a military tech nerd to enjoy reading about tanks and stuff, but at the same time find it deeply depressing that the world has ~73,000 tanks. That’s 73,000 hunks of metal weighing up to 60 tons, who only purpose is to reduce the built environment to rubble.
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Marines are like low-deductible homeowner's insurance: relatively cheap, useful fairly often when the dog knocks over your flatscreen. The Army is like full no-questions-asked coverage for your house burning down.
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Marines get the oldest/crappiest equipment, so the tanks will probably be rotated out to training and Guard units. Didn't know they had a full division's worth though.