China picks its lowest-scoring officers to command nuclear submarines

Business Insider ^ | Apr 16, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT | Michael Peck

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"Their equivalents of John McCain. Weird."

If every chicom sub captain loses subs as efficiently as McCain lost aircraft, then the world will be a better place.

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It sounds like the Chicoms have a low opinion of their submarine fleet as a fighting force and its where they send all their dregs.

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Currently we are testing to see if we can put these people on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and how that works out. In the last twenty years it’s been a huge success and failure depending on how one looks at the results.

The low IQ Joint Chiefs have adopted all the latest Marxist policies and committed the armed forces to becoming good young pioneers.

On the other hand, we haven’t won a war since Desert Storm, the military hates white Americans and America in general, has inserted itself into national politics and elections and couldn’t fight their way out of an outhouse full of rattlesnakes.

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[On the other hand, we haven’t won a war since Desert Storm]

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That’s not incompetence. The Korean War wasn’t lost, but it wasn’t won either. WWI was pended with an armistice that resulted in what might be considered a continuation war in 1941. The country’s most definitively concluded wars were also the ones in which the most resources were expended.

In WW2, for the duration of the war, 40% of economic output was used up. Civilian car production ended and did not resume until war’s end. Essential goods like sugar and flour were rationed. 16m men were drafted, or about 1/4 of the male population.

Most of the wars before and since seldom involved killing as much of the enemy’s overall population as occurred in WW2 (12% of Germany, 5% of Japan). During the Philippine-American War, blood-curdling atrocities were committed to pacify opponents of US annexation. While probably less ruthless than average, they were essential to a swift victory. Vietnam, unlike WW2, did not involve burning the enemy’s (North Vietnam’s) cities to the ground. Korea was similarly fought with limited resources and severely constricted targeting.

Bottom line is that superior resource allocation wins wars and the butchery of enemy populations either during the big war or post-big war phase wins occupations.