Listen, you fantastically retarded motherfucker. I’m going to try to explain this so that you can understand it.
You cannot control an entire country and its people with tanks, jets, battleships and drones or any of these things that you so stupidly believe trumps citizen ownership of firearms.
A fighter jet, tank, drone, battleship or whatever cannot stand on street corners. And enforce “no assembly” edicts. A fighter jet cannot kick down your door at 3AM and search your house for contraband.
None of these things can maintain the needed police state to completely subjugate and enslave the people of a nation. Those weapons are for decimating, flattening and glassing large areas and many people at once and fighting other state militaries. The government does not want to kill all of its people and blow up its own infrastructure. These are the very things they need to be tyrannical assholes in the first place. If they decided to turn everything outside of Washington D.C. into glowing green glass they would be the absolute rulers of a big, worthless, radioactive pile of shit. Police are needed to maintain a police state, boots on the ground. And no matter how many police you have on the ground they will always be vastly outnumbered by civilians which is why in a police state it is vital that your police have automatic weapons while the people have nothing but their limp dicks.
BUT when every random pedestrian could have a Glock in their waistband and every random homeowner an AR-15 all of that goes out the fucking window because now the police are out numbered and face the reality of bullets coming back at them.
If you want living examples of this look at every insurgency that the U.S. military has tried to destroy. They’re all still kicking with nothing but AK-47s, pick up trucks and improvised explosives because these big scary military monsters you keep alluding to are all but fucking useless for dealing with them.
Dumb. Fuck.
And my title sounds like I'm the one doing the retrospective, but I'm most definitely not. I'm asking for people here to do the retrospective, preferably those with either deep knowledge or some kind of first hand experience using them.
This is the basis for the discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
And its easy to intuitively understand why the Bradley was so controversial.
So here's what I want to know.
#1 Can we know if the Bradley is a lemon (has it seen combat where it had a decent probability of being hit with something intended to take out a tank, are numbers available etc).
#2 If we can know if the Bradley is a lemon, is the Bradley a lemon?
#3 If the Bradley is not a lemon, would the advantages of the Bradley as pictured at the start of the video linked above outweigh the costs - the original version seems to be a hell of a lot cheaper.
#4 Was it worth the money? 5.6 billion, 3.2 mil per.
#5 Is it a Troop transport? What I mean by this is... do we actually ferry a large percentage of our troops in Bradleys, or do we use something else (Humvees, Trucks) that leaves our people more exposed.
#6 What was actually done following the controversy surrounding the Bradley to mitigate its perceived flaws? Were they mitigated, or did we just say fuck it and run with it?
I've had people tell me that the Pentagon Wars is a comedy not to be taken seriously... but I know its based on a book and as I said the claims made in it seem intuitive and obvious. The Bradley looks like a light tank - not a troop carrier.
I'm fairly jaded when it comes to military procurement, and I think that the Bradley is an interesting case because its got a deep rich history that came after significant controversy. Did it hold up? Did it get tested to the point where we'd know? Should it have been a much simpler design?
I'd have posted this in r/credibledefense but I think the mods there would balk, I'm guessing both subs have mostly the same userbase anyway though.
U.S Army Video https://youtu.be/xqDgn-qXr0E?t=96
Note the M2 Bradley IFV is the current model we have in-game, and the WRONG MODEL, the M3 CFV does not have the Gun Pods on the side of the tank that the M2 has for the infantry to fire out of, and is missing 2 scouts as crew.
Picture of the M3 Bradley CFV https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Two_M-3_Bradleys.jpg https://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley-m2-m3/
