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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
For the life of me, I am not sure why the U.S. must announce everything we do militarily.
Why do we need to make videos, documentaries, and announce every time we do something?
Why do we need documentaries talking about our stealth bombers and fighters?
Why do we need to talk about our drone capabilities?
Why does every new piece of hardware need to be on the military channel?
I'm curious if other countries are consistently talking about their military assets and every little raid they go on (like the Navy Seals and Somali's) in this way for posturing? From everything I've seen about the cold war, for the most part Russia knew what we had via satellites and spies.
I guess now we just tell them everything we have to strike fear into the morrow of their Russian bones? I would think that part of the military advantage is that the other side does NOT know what all you have, how it works, the capabilities of those assets, etc.. I do not understand why we must have a press conference for every little thing, successful or not.
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If you think they announce everything we do you are greatly mistaken.. They have to release a reasonable amount of info, because we are a so called open society. We have troops doing things all over the world that you will likely never hear about. He'll we have guys in South America and it's known, but you never hear what they are doing if you yea anything at all..
Also the CIA is used for a lot of stuff you may or may not hear about, but we also have other groups that are like special forces but but not officially SF units and these groups are usually attached to other groups.. You will never know who or what they are or better yet, what they do.. To think our military announces every little thing is foolish.