▲ 531 ▼ Tommy Tuberville Says US Wouldn’t Be Able to Take on China Because of ‘Wokeness’: ‘We’ve Got People Doing Poems on Aircraft Carriers’ (www.mediaite.com) submitted 2 years ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 220 comments fedilink hide all child comments What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons... -- Wilfred Owen
[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago The US military is terrifying because of its logistics and intelligence apparatus, not its individual soldiers. It may be the best in the world in training individual soldiers too. China is the ultimate cargo cult wrt tech. They copy the form, hoping to eventually understand the mechanisms. Well, if it works for consumer electronics and plenty of other tech, then it may eventually happen for aircraft carriers, no? permalink fedilink source parent