Current Events > What's the point of foot soldiers nowadays when we can just spam airstrikes?

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If anything about the Israeli-Palestine war has showed, it's that the best way to conduct a war is to just exploit your air superiority. Israeli has only about 14 or so of their soldiers killed last I heard, as compared to hundreds of Hamas militants decimated. (and of course this is ignoring the thousands more civilian deaths)

This spam use of airstrikes isn't new. The US has also spammed airstrikes like mad to win wars like the Gulf War and Iraq/Afghan invasion.

It seems common tactic is to just blow up enemy territory to shreds from the air till almost nothing could still be surviving before finally sending in group troops who just march in, set up camp, celebrate and drink booze. All without them shooting a bullet themselves to kill the enemy. After all, why fight directly when you can just kill your enemies while remaining UNTOUCHABLE from the skies!!

Thanks for the input, Trump, nobody's thought of this before.

The only real reason is optics. It doesnt look great on the world stage to just carpet bomb areas full of civilians. Israel doesnt seem to care about the optics though.

I mean, lots of young men join the military thinking they're gonna go on an exciting CoD campaign in real-life.

Instead what they get are boring treks through ruined cities to admire the carnage already caused by jets and drones

It's the age of grenadier drones now.

The Military has a foot fetish

DarkAssassin89 posted...

The only real reason is optics. It doesnt look great on the world stage to just carpet bomb areas full of civilians. Israel doesnt seem to care about the optics though.

They could either send in group troops without the air bombing and risk losing thosands of Israeli lives, and cause massive uproar over this in their country. Or just yknow, send the jets, bomb the hell out of everyone regardless Hamas or civilian, and spare your country any further losses esp. after their experience from Oct 7th. Sure, they'll lose international credibility, but to the Israeli government, winning the Israeli's vote is what matters more

"If you have uncontested air supremacy, you can just bomb your enemies instead of fighting on the ground!"

Wow, thanks for this revelation from Japan, 1945. You're right, what's the point of ground soldiers?!

Or... Hm... Maybe a war between an advanced military equipped with modern American and European hardware and one of the poorest nations on Earth is not actually indicative of how most wars are fought.

Hmmm....