The Defense Department announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.

Equipment to integrate Western launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s systems;

Additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems(HIMARS) and ammunition

155mm and 105mm artillery rounds

Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles

M113 Armored Personnel Carriers

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles

Trailers to transport heavy equipment

Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles

Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems

Precision aerial munitions

High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)

Small arms and additional rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades

Demolitions munitions and equipment for obstacle clearing

Coastal and riverine patrol boats

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear protective equipment;

Spare parts, training munitions, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment.

  • tellah@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    8 months ago

    The one thing I kinda thought the boomers who predominantly run shit would be good at was to remember what level of economic commitment is required to win a real, serious military conflict (and Afghanistan and Iraq don’t count - they were fully asymmetric conflicts). But it seems they can’t even do that.

    Well Afghanistan and Iraq are really the only two wars which the boomers can be said to have “fought” in the sense of being the largest voting bloc, well represented in the administration - basically running things.

    They were post-WW2 children so they weren’t really running things during Korea and Vietnam, or the Cold War generally. The two conflicts you mentioned are just about the two best examples of “Boomers’ Wars” you can find, so to say “they don’t count” is funny because it should at least illustrate why the current situation is not so surprising. They don’t know how to fight a war - they were born when their parents just won a fucking big one.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Hah, yeah, you have a point. I was thinking of “participated in, and generally socially aware of”, but in terms of leadership experience you’re spot on.

    • Railing5132@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Not to be all: “well ackshually”, but actually, my dad is the definition of a baby boom kid - born shortly after WW2, (the baby boom) and served in the navy during Vietnam.

      It might be more fair to say: “They don’t know how to win a war”