I’m just curious how many different military forces the government actually needs? They keep making up new ones.
i dunno, maybe they’re hoping inter-service rivalry and poorly defined scopes will allow leadership to play off the various armed forces against each other, the way hitler used to with the heer, the luftwaffe, the SS and so on
What is the benefit of this? Lowering the risk of a military coup?
possibly? or at least it may be a way to prevent any of them from capturing the leadership (like the praetorian guard would often).
or it may just be somehow the nature of fascism. i dunno.
come to think of it, did all fascist countries do this? did mussolini? did franco? did south korea? japan? so maybe it’s got nothing to do with fascism.
Mussolini did it with the blackshirts and the army, Japan had an absurd level of rivalry between the army and the navy. Franco, on the other hand, pretty successfully integrated together the army and various feuding militias. Maybe that’s why he managed to win, unlike most other fascists.
well, he also didnt start a war with the entire world, unlike the others. he wanted spain, and when he got it, he sat on it. franco knew when to quit.
He negotiated with Germany about joining WWII, but didn’t like their conditions.
Japan had an absurd level of rivalry between the army and the navy
Didn’t they lose some critical battle specifically because they weren’t sharing intelligence or something like that
Or like the entire us millitary + 8’telligence apparatus in Syria
I wonder when Trump will announce SPACE ICE.
SPICE. Marine ice would be MICE. Gotta workshop what the air ice would be though
Spice marines
The personal military of RFKhorne Jr.
SKICE?
THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
In what world would ICE need a fucking guided missile?
But how would they launch it? DHS does have mq-9 predator drones, so maybe they’re arming them. Or maybe they’re buying javelins
Apropos of nothing, I wonder where they store all this stuff…
Office Depot💫
Apropos of nothing
Indeed.
I wonder what big arms are. Litteral tanks?
Dem congresspeople: “According to this information. ICE purchased attack helicopters, RPGs, tanks, fighter j—”
ICE: “Yeah. So?”
Dem congresspeople: “Why do you need this matériel for immigration enforcement?”
ICE: “'Cause we do. God Bless America and all that crap.”
Dem congresspeople: “Oh.”
We need defensive nukes to protect ourself from all those latino waiting in front of home depot.
I saw an old lady selling wheels of homemade goat cheese out of a styrofoam cooler. I called Super ICE. The blast could be seen with the naked eye from the moon.
If it can’t be seen with the naked eye from Pluto, it didn’t happen
get out of here with your fake planet ahah
Counterpoint: The Moon is also a planet
Basically. things that need more than small arms to carry them
Gonna be great seeing ICE vehicles stuck in sinkholes and crushed by collapsed bridges thanks to the US’s neglected, crumbling infrastructure.
Crew serve at the smallest, like 50. cal machine guns and MK19 automatic grenade launchers.
Really, really depends on definition used but a good rule of thumb is small arms can be carried and used by one person (sometimes up to 3) and heavy weapons is anything that requires non-human-propulsion to get anywhere
What for?!
