Snoop is a revered & respected troller
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Dragons?
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I just hope youâre on my team.
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But Star Trek is set in the future.
Star Wars, OTOHâŚ
Seriously though - unless it is about rapping or weed, no one should care about his opinion.
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Tell that to the Vietnamese! They basically ousted what was at the time the most overengineered and powerful military in the world (well, one of the two at least).
War is not just a technical problem, itâs a political, tactical, and social one as well. Glossing over that fact is kind of myopic.
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Totes historically accurate image of me in my younger days!!!
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I agree. The man allegedly has an IQ of 147. I think he knows the difference between history and fictionalization.
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By a mismatch between the armies, exploiting the overengineered aspect of one that was prepared to fight its ilk at a well-defined battlefront. The rest was wearing down the domestic will to fight, coupled with unprepared public relations at home so too much truth got out.
True that. But at the end of the day you end with the engineering anyway, whether it is about weapons or supplying fertilizers for food, or providing a resources cushion for tactical screwups.
Snoop has some pretty choice quotes, in the New York Times Magazine, this week, too. EnjoyâŚ
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Maybe he just didnât want to come out and say he watches it for the same reason the rest of us do⌠the boobies!
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Right - they still overcame a technically superior force. You could argue that we âleftâ Iraq and Afghanistan before the same thing could happen there.
Total war means total war, and people whose lands are invaded are much more likely to hunker down, and employ the âweapons of the weakâ and to sacrifice much more in order to win - because for them, the stakes are far higher. Bringing it back to the second world war, look at the battle of stalingrad.
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Speak for yourself!
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Because folks who write songs always speak literal truth.
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They got significant bonuses on defense and blending with the civilians. Itâs being said that the Tet Offensive was a military failure but psychological success important enough to tip the scales.
The defender virtually always has this advantage.
For the US, the war was more about politics than about being total. They were willing to defend South Vietnam to the last Vietnamese, but not much more.
The same as about 'Nam could be said about defenders during the Pacific campaign, where Japanese were holding the islands quite toothânânail. But at the end they lost as the resources available and committed were sufficient.
Which Germans would win if not for underpreparedness for the weather and getting their supply routes cut off.
You wonât conquer Russia.
If you do, you wonât hold it.
And if you would, youâll freeze.
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Right so, itâs not always solely an engineering advantage.
Thatâs a good point, but they werenât defending the homeland, but colonies. Itâs not a big surprise that they eventually lost, especially as support began to erode at home.
Precisely my point. First, they didnât learn their French history in regards to invading Russia, and second, they arrogantly imagined they invasion of the Russian homeland would be a cakewalk and theyâd be out by August.
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