Why is riverine warfare so criminally underrated?
Why is riverine warfare so criminally underrated?
Andrew Bennett
Jacob Walker
Because it's rarely important, you can shut down river access by land fairly easily and dedicated river fleets/flotillas are moot
Colton Lopez
It's not?
It hasn't been strategically relevant in most modern conflicts due to air power and the availability of open terrain in most theaters.
It could still be relevant in the future, especially in southeast and east Asia, and military training and planning for those scenarios exist.
Ryder Walker
Don't forget, they brought the monitor back for Vietnam.
Jacob White
Thomas Cruz
Current meta for warfare is to go all in with aircraft
Matthew Nelson
Because China and Russia has better river navies.
Dominic Allen
>current blocks your path
Kevin Gray
Because dams are criminally simple to construct.
Gabriel Garcia
Because it has been largely irrelevant for many decades.
Jonathan Collins
>Current meta
Its called doctrine
Parker Rogers
I'd argue that it's been relatively useless even during the Civil War days.
It's only really good for peppering coastal towns and harassing forts, both not being that worthwhile.
Gavin Clark
Wasn't asserting control over the Tigris and Euphrates one of the keys to relatively passifying Iraq? What kind of brown water shit has gone on in the GWOT?
Brandon Evans
>passifying
lol
Parker Johnson
semantics
Ryan Nelson
If you're studying Chinese history, it isn't, really.
Hunter Jackson
Pacifying, whatever.
So I can't spell. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?
Matthew Evans
It was a funny way of misspelling it lad
Oliver Morgan
>wanna fight about it
You already lost, underage inbred redneck.
Blake Nguyen
if only the a had been a u
Easton Campbell
Wouldn't it have to be "pussyfying" instead of "pussifying" though?
Evan King
and been funny
Jaxson Myers
Did they just drop a whole T54 in the front turret?