And so it begins

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Infantry numbers matter less when you have combined arms capability.

It’s more than combined arms; it’s complete and effective air supremacy. The US could get away with only 200k for Iraq because of mass bombings that broke Iraq into a rout quickly. Russia didn’t even attempt that and probably couldn’t have.

Either way 600k isn't a lot

Also a point of mine we argued about. :marseybruh2:

The context of our argument was me pointing out China having 12mil troops didn't matter at all.

What? China wasn’t even brought up????? We were talking about the flexibility infantry advantage gives.

like if ameriKKKa invaded Ukraine with 170k troops I imagine it'd be going much better.

Yes. Ukraine’s government and military would’ve been completely disconnected by a massive shock and awe bombing campaign and the US would occupy the nation within 1-2 months. With significantly more civilian casualties than what russia has done.

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I pretty clearly remember saying infantry numbers didn't matter that much with combined arms but that Russia was still light, and also Russia sucks at combined arms so it was even worse.

Also Russia clearly tried, they just failed. They fired a lot of missiles in the opening few weeks, at least 700. They had bombing campaigns. They just couldn't deal with Ukrainian AA and stopped.

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Also Russia clearly tried, they just failed. They fired a lot of missiles in the opening few weeks, at least 700.

And yet the US still dropped as many bombs on Iraq day 1 as Russia launched in the entire first month. For a nation that needed at least 2.5-3x as many as the US dropped on Iraq too blitz.

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