*Yes, the Afghan one was 2001-2002, still history and within the 25-year-rule of no current politics.
*The discovery of ice cream and cake in American supplies terrified the Nazi Germans and Imperial Japanese in World War II because this showed just how good American logistics and war-making capabilities were. This was not as effective in Vietnam and Afghanistan because those two were guerilla wars where the limiting factor is political will, not industrial capacity or logistics.
DrHolmes52 on
Japan and Germany: “We need to win”
Vietnam and Afghanistan: “We just need to not lose. They will get tired”.
MinuteWaitingPostman on
I would argue that by the time of the Vietnam War (let alone the Afghanistan War), refrigiration technology had developed to the point that it no longer baffled them. Shipping ice cream across an ocean just wasn’t the logistical flex like it was in the 1940’s
thissexypoptart on
Vietnam and Afghanistan weren’t fighting an offensive, overseas war of imperialism like Japan.
Who gives a shit that your enemy brings ice cream when you’re just trying to defend your homeland? In those circumstances, you’re fighting to survive and preserve your culture and way of life, not steal land from other nations.
When the people you attacked in a war of imperial conquest cross the pacific and show up with ice cream ships—yeah, I can see how that’s demoralizing lmao.
Don’t start shit, won’t be shit. No need to cry and piss/shit yourself about ice cream ships if you don’t attack a bunch of sovereign nations in a war of conquest.
Fayraz8729 on
Those logistics only work against near peers, when dealing with insurgents then your logistics become “our” logistics since they loot you for more equipment
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*Yes, the Afghan one was 2001-2002, still history and within the 25-year-rule of no current politics.
*The discovery of ice cream and cake in American supplies terrified the Nazi Germans and Imperial Japanese in World War II because this showed just how good American logistics and war-making capabilities were. This was not as effective in Vietnam and Afghanistan because those two were guerilla wars where the limiting factor is political will, not industrial capacity or logistics.
Japan and Germany: “We need to win”
Vietnam and Afghanistan: “We just need to not lose. They will get tired”.
I would argue that by the time of the Vietnam War (let alone the Afghanistan War), refrigiration technology had developed to the point that it no longer baffled them. Shipping ice cream across an ocean just wasn’t the logistical flex like it was in the 1940’s
Vietnam and Afghanistan weren’t fighting an offensive, overseas war of imperialism like Japan.
Who gives a shit that your enemy brings ice cream when you’re just trying to defend your homeland? In those circumstances, you’re fighting to survive and preserve your culture and way of life, not steal land from other nations.
When the people you attacked in a war of imperial conquest cross the pacific and show up with ice cream ships—yeah, I can see how that’s demoralizing lmao.
Don’t start shit, won’t be shit. No need to cry and piss/shit yourself about ice cream ships if you don’t attack a bunch of sovereign nations in a war of conquest.
Those logistics only work against near peers, when dealing with insurgents then your logistics become “our” logistics since they loot you for more equipment