re: #396 JasonA

War has become a lot more about quality than quantity.

War became quality over quantity with the US after WWII, because we figured out after looking at the Soviets fight that we didn’t have the manpower to fight a war of attrition, and that’s what any war with them was going to turn into. So we turned to developing weapons with kill ratios that made their manpower advantage less of a problem.

Problem is that the Cold War is over and now we have a military composed of its left-overs that cost too much to build/maintain, are not adapted for modern urban combat, and are badly out of date.