The Navalist

Disciple of Mahan, student of Corbett, admirer of Fisher, follower of Nimitz, and avid reader on naval warfare.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@ThomBrady5 @flobblewobbled Crassus began his career as a military commander under Sulla's dictatorship and led the Roman army's suppression of the Spartacus rebellion. The old fool had military experience when he invaded Parthia, he was not a simple merchant.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder Attempting to march to Beijing from Korea would have resulted in the most gruelling and horrific march in American history. Attempting to invade China via coastal landings would have resulted in hundreds of Normandys and Stalingrads.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder What's retarded is beliving you can conquer China without millions of casualties. The US were stalemated at Korea, they could never conquer China. And no, you couldn't nuke the Chinese without inviting a Soviet response in return. Absolutely delusional.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder The US expected to suffer 2 to 4 million casualties in Operation Downfall. Now imagine how many casualties they would have suffered while attempting to conquer a Soviet-backed China, which is 25 times larger in size than Japan and vastly stronger.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder This is plain delusion. The US army was driven all the way back from the Yalu to the 50th parallel. This despite extensive air power, a mechanised army, and naval support. Attempting to invade China would be a dismal failure with millions of Americans dead.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder The US stayed for 20 years in Afghanistan attempting a failed nation-building project. The notion that killing OBL was the original goal of the invasion is false.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder The US got trounced by China in the Korean War. An invasion of the North would have been the Korean disaster x 10. The Soviets would have eagerly supplied even more, and the 1970s were when the Soviets were at their strongest. The US would have been defeated.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder The Taliban survived and later reconquered Afghanistan. The US couldn't invade North Vietnam because China would have intervened and pushed American troops back. Then they would have been back to square one, with many more casualties.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@Vexatious111 @dinkleberg1717 @tropicalgreekSS Not really, the US Air Force's aircraft inventory dropped from ~13,500 in 1968 to ~9,000 in 1975, despite the gigantic US industrial base.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@zechts @Ravioli628 @qualadder Neither of them were decimated. The moment the US ceased military operations they were back in action and virtually annihilated the US-installed puppet governments in quick succession. The US lost in both wars, politically and militarily.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@Dielan2026 @GeorgiaMan45 How many states have fallen due to overextension and internal revolution? Seems like excessive use of the monopoly on violence isn't a stable way to govern the world.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@dinkleberg1717 @tropicalgreekSS You already did and failed. The US lost 10,000 aircrafts in Vietnam trying to bomb everything to rubble.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@marifetter @tropicalgreekSS And invite Chinese + Soviet intervention? Then the US would have been back to where they started, or a global thermonuclear war would have broken out.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@TopZoz1 @tropicalgreekSS Linebacker 2 was a failure.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@KathAntonio7 @terry45640087 @BronzeAgeRouter @tropicalgreekSS You lost the war. By the time the US pulled out, much of South Vietnam was still under VC control, and the Paris Accords affirmed the right of North Vietnam to keep their troops in occupied South Vietnamese territory.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@FrogFrogself @DucHong26804 @ShitlibSupreme @ComChia430 Thanks for proving that I'm right.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@FrogFrogself @DucHong26804 @ShitlibSupreme @ComChia430 You are already a meme, there's no need for me to.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@FrogFrogself @DucHong26804 @ShitlibSupreme @ComChia430 Thank you for proving me right.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@HerrCoolness @ThomBrady5 Sorry no, the US went all out with numerous war crimes and still lost.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@xThrawn @MichiganMakwa @HLC_actual @LibertyASAP1 Newsflash: Bombing civilians turns them against *you*, not your enemy.

[The Navalist @TheNavalStudent]

@FrogFrogself @DucHong26804 @ShitlibSupreme @ComChia430 What facts, the ones you lied to yourself?

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