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Re:The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade,... by UncleMeat on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:55AM (#31083128)
In the modern day, humans are not necessarily "cheap disposable units." At least for the US, it is not politically feasible to have 50,000-100,000 people die in a war anymore. 4,431 US soldiers were killed in Iraq. The calculus has changed and now dollars are cheaper than lives.
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Re:The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade,... by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:58AM (#31083181)
>humans are not necessarily "cheap disposable units"

Putin and most of the Russian military doctrine would beg to differ.

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Re:The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade,... by UncleMeat on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:03AM (#31083247)
"Not necessarily."

It depends on the nation and their political situation.

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Re:The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade,... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @01:02PM (#31085799)
To what degree do you think that Russia's losses in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet Union?

Since 1945, Russia hasn't shown that it can accept a war of mass casualties without political fallout. Russian military doctrine may say that it can, but Putin would be unwise to assume so.

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