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Germany is protecting itself from whoever or whatever threatens it, Russians, aliens, who cares. Situations develop fast, armies don't.
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You skipped part of Germany involving its army in attacking other countries which is more important than aliens you are talking about. I am really not aware that someone will attack Germany or planing to do so. And those who can will solve it with nukes. Surrender or be nuked. Simple as that. Conventional army is pretty useless in that case. Only way you can avoid this hardcore scenario is to have own nukes so other side won't take a risk. But you don't and that is idea behind my posts on this topic. Army without them is just regional power that can't do much if serious players want something from you (me,or anyone else). Hopefully, this would never happen.
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Do you mean that in "frontal war" whatever that even is, is no close combat situations?
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Yes ,there are, once you solve most of the things by artillery, bombing from air, or simply save your effort and use nukes.
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I can tell you that there is. And spec ops are used where ever necessary, maybe not in doctrine, but everybody else does.
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Spec ops are used in wars we are seeing in last 60 (or so),years. Those are proxy wars or wars of big players attacking helpless countries. (US on desert country like Iraq,Russia on Georgia, whole NATO on tiny Serbia, Israel on Palestinians which is basically exercise and muscle stretching,...) all of them are conflicts with complete disbalance of power. And that is what I am talking about. If you are strong enough, no one will try to attack you. Nukes are keeping that balance especially if you have small population (for example like Israel).
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About nukes and Japan, you haven't used nukes after WWII, even you have had bunch of wars. And about hiding army coming to attack, like I said, most countries have armies to defend themselves, not to hussle around world. Regarding modern day tactics and strategies, those involve non-symmetrically placed troops and very fast movement.
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I am not from US. But policy of using nukes was good move from US perspective. Personally, I would save lives and demonstrate power on some remote place, but situation was specific and there were no enough nukes available in that moment. That move put US as leading military power and secured peace of millions and probably saved lives on allied and Japan side.
And of course nukes were not used , as mentioned above, those are wars when opponent is so weak that you are practically just practicing and marketing own weapons that you will sell later. Tons of money involved in "defense" industry. Bloody business that is pushing US economy.
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Also, as you can see from Crimea and Ukraine, there is no formal declarations of war. It is politically much harder to react with that.
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There was no war on Crimea. How many people died there? Those people wanted to be with Russia and not with broke puppet nazi government.