So Pete Hegseth can’t feed his deployed Navy?

[strangenoises@mastodon.social]

@slothrop @mcnado probably wasn't a *great* idea on a wooden ship of the line with a hold full of gunpowder either.

[granvegas@mastodon.social]

@slothrop @mcnado

The U.S.S. Constitution would like a word.

[portlandy@pdx.social]

@mcnado logistics are always an afterthought for the fascists. It's just not violently masculine enough to command their attention.

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@GranVegas @mcnado ROFL

[flux@wandering.shop]

@mcnado It'll be The Battleship Potempkin all over again.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@mcnado We've seen where his budget goes yet can't even feed his damn troops.

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@GranVegas @mcnado could this… could this be the one thing Pete Hegseth read about the military before deciding to take on his current job?

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@mcnado

So wait, they've lost the ability to feed the people with guns and the training to use them? That's not likely to end well.

[rstein@social.tchncs.de]

@mcnado "An army marches on its stomach" was Napoleons insight. The Navy doesn't march, but ...

[aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org]

@mcnado The adage "An army marches on it's stomach" isn't Sun Tzu old ... but it's close.

[jimgon@hulvr.com]

@mcnado

They thought it was going to be a three day war.

[fiddlesix@zeroes.ca]

@slothrop @mcnado

I expect Hegseth would approve, though he might want check the quality of the rum first...

[swiftone@mastodon.online]

@portlandy @mcnado The U.S. Armed Forces have two skills that mostly no one challenges, be they supporters or opponents:

(1) Not overthrowing the (U.S.) govt.

(2) Logistics. (Lots of minor screw-ups, I hear, but ultimately successful at a global scale to both support and end lives

I can only assume that as MAGA was cutting out the numerous people and policies related to number 1, they also destroyed many plans and capabilities for number 2.

[autolycos@beige.party]

@mcnado every service member has had their first year of service pay fucked up for at least the past decade

[portlandy@pdx.social]

@swiftone @mcnado it should also be noted that part of the reason American fascists eschew logistics is that before integration it was what Black service members did in disproportionate numbers. (Hence it was done extremely well and laid the foundation for the systems you describe.)

[juergen_hubert@mementomori.social]

@Fishercat @mcnado

This might not _cause_ a coup, but it helps increase the odds that the military does not support Trump when _he_ tries to do a coup.

Again.