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A hierarchy of military inputs by cost and production burden, with soldiers cheapest and aircraft most expensive.
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cost pyramid
A hierarchy of military inputs by cost and production burden, with soldiers cheapest and aircraft most expensive.
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A correct war cost pyramid puts infantry at the bottom because soldiers are cheapest, then armor/artillery, naval power, and air power as more expensive layers.
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"And the most simple cost pyramid, okay, is, is this. Infantry, soldiers, okay? Alright? They're at the bottom. Why? Because they're the cheapest. What's..."
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"...guys? The problem is that the United States have an inverse pyramid. Okay? Meaning that the cost pyramid in the United States is the..."
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"...when you fight a war, you have to have a correct cost pyramid. Okay?"
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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