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haele

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4. He's also going to lose men.

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Fri Oct 3, 2025, 09:46 AM

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He wants to lose 1/3 of the military?
Who is he going to man the modern systems he needs to actually win.his wars?
Oh, right.
He's stuck in Napoleonic War "swarm the battlefield or the city" warfare mentality.
Lethality means being able to defeat dummies in hand to hand combat, or being able to do "kung fu fighting" and parkour to take on multiple enemy minions attacking you all at once like some sort of super soldier.

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