Close combat you can train for. Steel yourself for. This attack helos launching from halfway over the horizon, UAVs you can't see and missiles from distance is a bitch.

 

“Well Bradley, Hello!” — Russian Helicopter pilot

-> Two destroyed Bradley’s more. pic.twitter.com/f8dYcM0SWi

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 14, 2023

Close combat is horrifying. You can see, sometimes actually are touching the person you're engaging with. The damage you cause or is caused to you is instant and there is no doubt who did it. The smell, the visuals, every sense that the human brain can muster will lock onto it so that you're better the next time.

But this over the horizon shit.

This thing with UAVs flying at altitude so you can't see them before they strike.  Long range artillery.  Bombs from 50 miles away.

This shit sucks.

Ya know what I thought next?

COIN spoiled generations of US fighting forces.  Everything I'm seeing in this war that I consider horrifying is the same shit we were doing to insurgents for the past few decades.

This war is bad.

If we fight China its gonna be a new level of horrifying.  Good luck to whatever generation pulls that duty.

Fuck PTSD.  We're gonna see full on shell shocked soldiers.  Its all gonna be a mind fuck.