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Originally Posted by Plan9
The only thing you've got going for you is a good sniper school and fancy rations.
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I should address this more directly. Canada has played a rare long-standing combat role in Afghanistan in support of the mission there. Our forces have suffered 157 deaths (6 as a result of American friendly fire), which, as a percentage of the overall forces operating there, is a relatively high number.
For years, Canadian troops have been putting themselves in the line of fire in that country, when our usual mode is peacekeeping and security.
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Oh, I was just fucking with you, bro.
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But still.
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Originally Posted by Plan9
The US military is a great shambling beast operating on logic from yesteryear that needs to lose a lot of weight (figuratively and literally).
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Considering the expenditure as a percentage of GDP, it doesn't look
that bad...but the U.S. is quite high compared to developed nations in general (e.g. the G8). The expenditure as a percentage of GDP is in the top ten, and the U.S. is ranking among such nations as the oil-rich Middle East and otherwise relatively fucked-up places.