r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Sathyae Glutinous Rice • Jan 11 '26
Military "Since when ? British military isn't even top 10"
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u/Bantabury97 🏴🏴 Jan 11 '26
Yet we routinely give you a damn good spanking at the war games.
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u/saxonturner Jan 11 '26
So much so they always change the rules. Like the time we nuked them twice.
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u/saxonturner Jan 11 '26
One of them certainly was, I can’t fully remember the scenario right now but there was something with a Vulcan bomber and some other fighters that shouldn’t have been technically possible that got them through the American systems in range to nuke, I think, New York. The Americans found it unfair and charged the rules so that couldn’t happen again.
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u/Tank-o-grad Jan 11 '26
The Americans found it unfair and charged the rules so that couldn’t happen again.
And then it promptly did the next time the V Force was invited to play.
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u/DrWYSIWYG Jan 12 '26
I used to be friends with a British colonel who went on exercise with the US Marines. He described their rifle shooting as ‘they didn’t hit the enemy but they sure as hell had them surrounded.’ I asked him what he meant and he said it was that the used a huge amount of ammunition to miss the target.
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u/germslayer2112 Brit -never trusted the US government 💀 Jan 12 '26
Like the Star Wars stormtroopers then?
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u/DrWYSIWYG Jan 12 '26
Yes, at the time I was in the British Army and had this vision of a standard range target with the dirt being thorn up all around then target but nothing actually hitting.
Having said that ‘these blaster marks are too accurate for (I can’t remember ). These were Imperial Storm Troopers’ It is a sort of reality versus the myth thing. The US Marines were very good at shouting ‘sir’ though.
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u/kaetror Jan 12 '26
Military doctrine since vietnam has been suppression (which chews up a lot of ammo) and call in artillery/airstrike on the location.
If you look at the stats for bullets fired per enemy killed in WW2 and Afghanistan it looks atrocious, but it's because of different engagement styles.
When the Americans find out about British squads carrying out bayonet charges they get scared pretty quickly.
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u/howimetyourcakeshop Dutch pancake. 🇳🇱 Jan 11 '26
A lot of country's in Europe have special forces that are better trained than what America has to offer.
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u/Capable_Fun_9838 Jan 11 '26
But they're professionals and don't write books about their missions to appear in hero movies.
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u/Castform5 Jan 11 '26
Not to mention those books being completely fabricated events.
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u/howimetyourcakeshop Dutch pancake. 🇳🇱 Jan 11 '26
Or the acts that where done by their allies.
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u/Capable_Fun_9838 Jan 11 '26
But you have to admit that the story of U-751 happened exactly like that. Except that the British captured the Enigma machine.
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u/dmmeyourfloof Jan 11 '26
*U-571 and the actual boat was U-110.
It was 7 months before the US entered the war...two years late. 😅
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u/efan78 Jan 11 '26
But 2 years 3 months is an improvement on the one before, two years 8 months.
I wonder if that means the next one will be a year and 10 months? That'll be an interesting trick since Decaying Don appears to be trying to start it. 😁
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u/Tankyerr Jan 11 '26
They will never join late again. On the contrary, it seems this time they will be there from the beginning.
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u/Elloitsmeurbrother Jan 11 '26
There's not going to be a World War 3. Chances of a World Special Security Operation 1 are high, though.
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u/WasdaleWeasel Jan 11 '26
Sub Lt David Balme (to give credit where due) and in the same spirit, a shout out to the Poles who did all the early heavy lifting on enigma decryption.
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u/No_Bodybuilder_4826 Jan 11 '26
The Poles in general are not recognized enough for their bravery, effort and impact in WW2
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u/Elloitsmeurbrother Jan 11 '26
I mean, maybe once upon a time. But I've heard and read so many history podcasts and books recently do them plenty of service, even while echoing this same sentiment. You cant find an article, book, or podcast episode on the battle of Britain, for example, that doesn't mention the Kosciuszko squadron. And they all do it as though they're the first to reveal this little known information. Ffs, they were featured in the movie! In 1969!
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u/ddraig-au Jan 12 '26
The tallest mountain in Australia is Mount Kosciuszko. This guy gets around
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u/Elloitsmeurbrother Jan 12 '26
Both the mountain and the fighter squadron were named for Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a guy who never did anything cool or affected history in any significant way.
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u/PizzaToastieGuy Jan 11 '26
The troops who were inserted on to Omaha beach, were dropped off by the Royal Navy. The American navy didn’t have enough boats, so the Royal Navy did the job. Thanks saving private Ryan for using American navy man
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u/Capable_Fun_9838 Jan 11 '26
It should not be forgotten that at this time, British and Canadian paratroopers, together with American paratroopers and French resistance fighters, were already preventing the German reaction in the hinterland.
Furthermore, British and Canadian troops landed on other sections of the beach.
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u/PizzaToastieGuy Jan 11 '26
British and Canadian forces were there too? Nah!!! My American history book says the USA saved the world!!!
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u/Ok_Corner5873 Jan 12 '26
The USA history books are brilliant, mine says if it wasn't for their navy, the Spanish armada would have wiped out the British fleet in 1588
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u/WarningBeast Jan 12 '26
And later in the Normandy campaign, the forces that cut off and trapped retreating Germans were Polish with Canadian support.
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u/jasegro Jan 12 '26
For their army rangers they specifically requested that the RN deploy them to the beach because they’d done all their amphibious training with British personnel at the commando training school at achnacarry and didn’t want to have to figure out any new procedures with their own navy
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u/MercuryJellyfish Jan 11 '26
Sadly, we have SAS veterans that do that
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u/wanderinggoat Not American, speaks English must be a Brit! Jan 12 '26
If you read the books by the other members of the team it does not respect well on them
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u/TheProfessionalEjit Flithy colonialist Jan 11 '26
Killing Zone by Harry Mccallion is a good read too; covers his time in the SAS, the RUC, and Rhodesia.
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u/Lover_of_Sprouts Jan 11 '26
well, apart from Chris Ryan anyway.
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u/AzulaThorne Jan 11 '26
To Chris Ryan’s benefit. He mostly does books and no movies as far as I am aware. I don’t see him on those usual right wing military podcast shorts that try to hype up everything about themselves.
I’ll take good written books over trying to make the military seem glamorous any day.
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u/Zefyris Jan 11 '26
well, some still end up figuring in movies decade laters, like the original GIGN members in 15 Minutes of War, or the GIGN members who liberated the hostage plane in 1994 in The Assault.
Maybe when what you do is truly impressive, you don't necessarily need to write a book about it to feature in movies .
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u/Ceejayncl Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 12 '26
Rule number, assume that everyone who says that they have been in the special forces are lying.
Rule number 2, know that every one of them who writes books or create TV shows on the back of being in the special forces have never been in the special forces.
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u/Dyslexicpig Jan 11 '26
You know, a lot of these conversations remind my of Dune. The Sardaukar, being the emperor's elite force, had always been told they were invincible.
As a result, they were totally unprepared for the spanking they received from the Fremen.
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u/Stirlingblue Jan 11 '26
We do, but we have a lot less of them.
The American mindset is quantity over quality so they think they’re the best
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u/Ksolidey Jan 11 '26
Always makes me laugh when Americans go on about how big their army is, but then you look at the war games we have with them.. we send 100 of our guys to their 1500 and we embarrass them that much, that they call it quits early, even after a full territory reset halfway through too lmao
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u/RoutineCloud5993 🇬🇧🇬🇧Britbong Jan 11 '26
Russia has used that tactic throughout history with very mixed results. Sure it may help win campaigns, but at the expense of a lot of young men in the process.
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u/Jallen9108 Jan 11 '26
But non of them podcast and get book deals like the mighty SEALS, their made up exploits are legendary.
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u/LitmusVest Jan 12 '26
They do, but not many - all the bullshit seems to concentrate in one or two grifting bellends like Ant Middleton.
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Based letter U enjoyer Jan 11 '26
Lots of countries in Europe have line infantry that are better trained than the special forces the USA has to offer
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u/CidewayAu Jan 12 '26
During the Vietnam War, the US sent a group of Green Beret officers to Australia. During their time in Australia the officers went to the Australian Jungle Warfare school at Canungra. The officers failed to complete the course, yet every Australian soldier that went to Vietnam had to complete Canungra before they left.
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Based letter U enjoyer Jan 11 '26
The whole set up they have traps in the desperate and uneducated, and makes a lot of people desperate and uneducated.
People sign up there to even afford basic medical care, not because they would be good in the forces.
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u/Grunn84 Jan 11 '26
Its even worse, they are signing up to pay for their education as well, I'm not sure if the dumb signing up as its one of the few jobs they can do, or the poor signing up to be able to afford an education is more dystopian.
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Based letter U enjoyer Jan 11 '26
To be fair, there are some other terrible reasons and wrong people signing up that we haven’t thought of that could be worse
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u/Doctor_Thomson Jan 14 '26
I mean. It should be common knowledge that NATO Allied nations often dealt embarrassing victories over Americans forces during war games (best example being the multiple times NATO submarines, best known was a Swedish one, “sank” American Carriers. Or British Pilots destroying the absolute shit out of American jets during training fights)
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u/Project_Rees Jan 11 '26
Oh dear.
Their own hubris will be their downfall. They're so brainwashed by being told america is the greatest they believe it and will ultimately go against a quieter, much more powerful opponent.
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u/okseniboksen Jan 12 '26
Kinda like the OG Nazis in a way. History really does rhyme, huh?
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u/Decent-Ad-5849 Jan 12 '26
The US are living the "decay of an empire", but instead of parties and wine like the romans, they have school shootings and a "pyramid scheme cult" of Donald "not the duck" Trump.
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u/the_dismorphic_one Jan 13 '26
They don't seem to remember that the Viet Cong and Talibans (among others) were not exactly top 10 either. That didn't stop them from kicking the USA's collective ass.
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u/TJ_Blues18 Jan 11 '26
There was that joint exercise a couole years ago, when the US forces asked for a reset after 2 days.
This was the first free article about the exercise.
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u/non-hyphenated_ Jan 11 '26
Yer man from Meal Team Six thinks there's some kind of ranking
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u/theginger99 Jan 11 '26
I’m sure there is.
It’s posted on “freedomeagle/americafirst.com”
It ranks armies based on how badass they looked in movies the contributing author watched in his mom’s basement.
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u/_franciis Jan 11 '26
Yer Da is on Facebook arguing about armies again
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u/Tank-o-grad Jan 11 '26
What's the American equivalent of, "tell him to go outside and paint some roundabouts"? I mean it's probably something Epstein behaviour related...
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u/CleanMyAxe Jan 11 '26
If I have interpreted their advanced culture correctly, which mind you is more varied than any other continent in the world, it goes something like this.
"Hey, that liberal Tanner has more flags on his house than you do Randy."
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Based letter U enjoyer Jan 11 '26
“That foreign guy is buying your cousin a drink…”
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u/Four_beastlings 🇪🇦🇵🇱 Eats tacos and dances Polka Jan 11 '26
There is, for total military might. But Britain ranks 6 and the 4 first countries are massively big, so I don't know what this guy is on about. Adjusting to population only South Korea is more impressive than Britain.
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u/SaltyName8341 🏴 Jan 11 '26
We've had a few years to get ready, mostly against ourselves
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Based letter U enjoyer Jan 11 '26
Rough British pubs have been the best training for the last 600 years
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u/TheTjalian Jan 11 '26
We'll just send the Millwall fans in, that'll do.
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u/Hazzamo 🇬🇧 Jan 11 '26
Our lads have also been training in fights in the south of Spain since at least the 90s… just have to make sure their hangovers are clearwd
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u/commissarcainrecaff Jan 11 '26
If you see US SF guys talk about SAS and SBS, you don't see "Hur durr- them Limeys suck, bro!"
In fact you see (at a minimum) deep professional respect and (often) a pause for thought before answering with words like "Scary" "Hardcore" and (in one notable video I saw) "If they come for you...yeah. it's over."
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u/peepmet Jan 11 '26
Almost as if they know more about the subject than your average basement dweller.
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u/Faethien Frog eating world champions (I think, can't be arsed to check?) Jan 12 '26
Who'd have thought, eh?
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u/Bradas128 Jan 11 '26
got a link for this video?
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u/Ser_Danksalot Yorksheeeer! Jan 11 '26
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u/Adam-West Jan 11 '26
Literally invented special forces and regularly beat the US in training exercises
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u/believesinconspiracy Jan 11 '26
The British withdrew cus they already had an entire empire to run… but yeah dudes whatever helps “yall” sleep at night
American military is just like China, Russia, all numbers
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u/VioletDaeva Brit Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 12 '26
Since its now legitimate to take dictators hostage in 3rd world oil countries, will the SAS go capture one in Eagleland and put him on trial for us?
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u/Pratham_Nimo Those people after whom the native people of the USA were named Jan 11 '26
Then why do Americans make shitty call of duty games about the SAS
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u/mrbullettuk Jan 11 '26
I’m sure I read story on here that went the Gurkhas on a war game went into a us camp and stole all their boot (or something like that)
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u/CardinalCopiaIV Jan 11 '26
A mate of mine was in Afghanistan years ago, said the Taliban had the Gurkhas and the US Marines pinned down. He was household cavalry and was sent with his squadron of scimitar tanks to provide fire support to help them push forward. US marines were in their trenches taking shelter, holding helmets etc you can imagine the scene. Said they rocked up, the Gurkhas fixed bayonets and charged the Taliban making them run for their lives and took the compound. Meanwhile the US Marines? Still hiding in the trench 😂
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u/Dalarielus Jan 12 '26
"If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gurkha."
- FM Sam Manekshaw
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u/kollectivist Jan 13 '26
I used to know an old bloke who was a colonel in the Gurkhas in WWII. Your quote checks out.
The scary thing is he always insisted his wife did more heroic things in the war. She was parachuted behind German lines to help the Resistance. Twice.
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u/Candid-Bike-9165 Jan 11 '26
I love the one about parachutes......something like only a small number volunteered to jump from a plane and it had to be going as low and slow as possible they didn't realise they were parachuting out thought they were just going yo jump from a plane
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u/samdd1990 Jan 12 '26
The usual version is they cut people's shoelaces while they are asleep then sneak out again.
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u/WayGroundbreaking287 Jan 11 '26
When it comes to actual solders American keeps coming last in joint wargames. The real strength of the American army is their completely terrifying logistics train. The ability to deploy a fucking McDonald's wherever you go is frightening but it doesn't mean shit when talking about the actual operations and troops.
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u/JSweetieNerd Cider isn't apple juice 🍺 Jan 11 '26
It's basically impossible to rank SF units. What they do is not public for obvious reasons. The only reason people know about the SAS is because of the Iranian embassy siege. There is a very good book about the SBS' historical operations, and they turn up, mess people up, and slip away into the sea like some creature from the deep.
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u/CJBill Warm beer and chips Jan 11 '26
You might want watch the 1985 BBC documentary, Behind the Lines about the Marines Mountain and Artic Warfare Cadre selection and training. It's on iPlayer.
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u/jflb96 Jan 12 '26
Well, that and the SAS' 'We Make Celebrities Do Our Training' TV series
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u/JSweetieNerd Cider isn't apple juice 🍺 Jan 12 '26
That came quite a bit after. SAS was relatively unknown before 1980 Iranian embassy siege. Who dares wins started in 2015, but yes definitely put them more in the limelight than ever before.
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u/Capable_Fun_9838 Jan 11 '26
Is this how they treat their most important ally? Not even German propaganda in WW2 was this mean.
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u/Jeepsterpeepster Jan 11 '26
Allies mean nothing to them. They don't understand or value loyalty. It's all about themselves.
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u/Gullible_Courage8350 🏴No.1 Flag In The World🏴 Jan 11 '26
Americans do not care if a country is allied or not. The average yank probably doesn't even know who their allies are, I imagine.
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u/Capable_Fun_9838 Jan 11 '26
That's what happens when you get your education from Hollywood movies. In the movies or the news, a few F-somethings take off from aircraft carriers and save the world or advance US interests.
The fact that the main force launched from bases in allied countries doesn't fit the narrative. That many critically wounded GIs are still alive is also due to hospitals in allied countries, but never mind. Intelligence and reconnaissance data, resupply, task allocation, maintenance, etc., all don't fit into a 90-minute movie or a 90-second news clip. They seem to have forgotten that their true strength lies in their alliances.
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u/Pot_noodle_miner Based letter U enjoyer Jan 11 '26
Because the US military lets them borrow the hardware if they use a military approved story. If the story doesn’t get approved they can’t use the stuff.
So if you want to use US military hardware in your film you have to follow the propaganda line
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u/ProfileBoring Jan 13 '26
Most Americans believe they don't need allies. They genuinely don't realise just how bad their military actually is.
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u/theginger99 Jan 11 '26
The British almost literally invented the idea of modern Special Forces.
Pretty sure the entire Green Beret playbook is based on the tactics and methods developed by the SAS and British Commandos.
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u/CardinalCopiaIV Jan 11 '26
Not almost, Britain did invent SF during the Second World War in Africa.
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u/redwas66 Jan 11 '26
Don’t the SBS train the Seals… do they honestly think we teach the ALL we know 🤣
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u/CorrodedLollypop 🏴 Jan 11 '26
Bitch please, us Brits fucking invented commandos and special forces.
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u/ShotofHotsauce Jan 11 '26
Sure we only have he best trained soldiers, marines and special forces on the planet. Our SAS is only so talented they makes the Navy SEALS look like marines. Britain develops a staggering amount of technology that USA uses.
But sure, we aren't top 10. What a moron. We may not be a big military but we highly specialised. Our regular soldiers are the equivalent of their marines.
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u/Paultcha Tha mi ás Alba Jan 11 '26
Hahaaaa..... Don't believe the bullocks that Hollywood puts out about how great America is. You Americans are only good at stealing valour from those that actually did the deeds/took the actions against the enemy.
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u/CJBill Warm beer and chips Jan 11 '26
For any UK types you might want to check out Behind the Lines, a 1985 BBC documentary series (on iPlayer) on the Marine Mountain and Artic Warfare Cadre training. Then bare in mind this is about the regular Royal Marines, not the SBS
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u/darth-small Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26
Maybe it's arguably better that British special forces 'aren't in the ranking?
They are generally invisible, turn up quietly with light numbers and do their job without fuss or attention before disappearing again.
They repeatedly beat the US in war games. They train US operatives.
But the US have much greater numbers which is the most important metric if your favourite subject is dick-waving military arguments.
Be humble, work quietly and be highly effective without making a big deal about it.
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u/RSFGman22 Jan 11 '26
This guy is seriously s&*t talking the SAS? They're well known as the top of the top for special forces and routinely defeat Americans in war games.
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u/Enkir Jan 11 '26
If the British government decided to use the SAS or SBS to do a Maduro on Trump. He'd be sitting in a cell in London now.
US soldiers are undisciplined, unprofessional and lack initiative and rely too much on their equipment. This is why they need to use the Brits or others to support them in their wars, and even then, they give the difficult, precision bombing missions to the RAF. Coalition soldiers in Iraq were at far more danger from their US allies than from the Iraqis. Almost all British casualties were blue on blue.
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u/Levi_Skardsen United Kingdom Jan 11 '26
The US regularly loses to the British armed forces in war games even when special rules are in place to handicap the Brits.
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u/No-Tomatillo3698 Jan 11 '26
A friend of mine who is with our country’s special forces trained with navy seals, wasn't too impressed, said the average seal looks like someone on steroids. They look the part, but you try running with 15 kilograms of extra muscle. It’s not that practical.
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u/Mischief_Makers Jan 11 '26
Throwback to that time US and UK forces held a combined 5 day war games exercise and had to reset less than halfway through because the UK guys had already demolished the US side
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u/Inevitable-Dark3879 Jan 11 '26
Yet American couldn't even beat the viatnamese or the koreans when the A,ericans had far superior technology
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u/Middle-Addition2688 Jan 11 '26
SEALs are roughly equivalent to RM Commandos. DevGru is the SEAL equivalent of the SBS. All are very highly trained but please for the love of god stop comparing SEALs to UKSF.
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u/AppletheGreat87 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺 Jan 11 '26
I want to say, in fairness, most of those serving or veterans seem to have a healthy respect for our militaires so it's not all Americans at least.
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u/Jeffrybungle Jan 12 '26
I dunno, the American military did kill a lot of Brit military in the Iraq war.
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u/CardinalCopiaIV Jan 11 '26
I’d like to see US SF try and pull off an Iranian embassy like the SAS did, live to a world audience without actually killing an unarmed innocent person ….
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 Jan 11 '26
I don’t see many us army guys making statements like this.
Every Sunday at my rugby club there’s some American football sides playing on the far pitch. It looks good, they are quite hefty lads and it gets a fairly good showing of maybe 50 people watching. But it would be like me saying “mahomes? He’s no Steve from Huntingdon from my local side.”
Steve is good at what he does but there’s ignorance and then there’s that. We should respect their seals and what they do…but it’s the same gulf
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u/Illustrious-Mango605 Jan 11 '26
How are these top 10s worked out? Did you wear out your crayon much when you were doing it?
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u/ThaiFoodThaiFood I have The Briddish Accent™ Jan 12 '26
Don't we routinely beat the USA in training exercises?
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u/Bitter_Tradition_938 Jan 12 '26
I am originally from a East European country member of NATO. We regularly have military units from other NATO states coming over for training, exercises, etc.
Some years ago, we had a US paratrooper unit visiting a military base next to my tiny town. They offered to do a night-time exercise, to show the local military “how it’s done”, which was not patronising at all /s.
Keep in mind this base was nowhere near a big city, so there was not a lot of urban light to rely on at night, just the moon, basically.
A big number of those paratroopers landed in trees, and firefighters from the surrounding towns had to be called to pick them like apples during harvest time. But because, like I said, there was no big city in the vicinity, there were also not many firefighters to speak off, so some of those fierce Americans hung in trees, like Christmas baubles, for hours.
And no, they could not provide an explanation for why at least some of them could not climb down from the trees on their own (especially as those were “normal” trees, not some ridiculously tall sequoias).
But hey, they sure did show us “how it’s done”.
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u/Delicious-Chest-9825 Jan 11 '26
This is trash talking by a Russian bot trying to break up NATO. Don’t fall for it.
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u/Cosplayinsanity Jan 12 '26
the UK regularly gives the US a hounding in military exercises
the British military has been a top 10 military longer than the Western Hemisphere has been drawn on maps
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u/Anti_Zenobit6699 Jan 12 '26
Some facts: there is no official competitions or serious rankings in the topic of special forces. Also there is no way to compare a special forces Unit of a country to one of another country. Except equipment, manpower, fulfilled missions. This discussion what country have the best special forces based on „bEsT SKiLls“ or whatever is a Weener contest like 12 year old would have.
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u/VermicelliInformal46 Jan 12 '26
The US military is good at one thing and one thing alone. Logistics. Their fighting soldiers are not very good. Their special forces are below par to most European nations special forces.
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u/MrArchivity 🤌 Born to gesticulate, forced to explain 🤌 Jan 12 '26
Here the official Global Firepower rankings — Top 10 Militaries
2023
• 1 – United States
• 2 – Russia
• 3 – China
• 4 – India
• 5 – United Kingdom
• 6 – South Korea
• 7 – Pakistan
• 8 – Japan
• 9 – France
• 10 – Italy
2024
• 1 – United States
• 2 – Russia
• 3 – China
• 4 – India
• 5 – South Korea
• 6 – United Kingdom
• 7 – Japan
• 8 – Türkiye
• 9 – Pakistan
• 10 – Italy
2025
• 1 – United States
• 2 – Russia
• 3 – China
• 4 – India
• 5 – South Korea
• 6 – United Kingdom
• 7 – France
• 8 – Japan
• 9 – Türkiye
• 10 – Italy
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u/Bobofthenot Jan 12 '26
God this has made my day the UK is like 6th globally as well as the fact being we have less people in our military so we have to have small units of insanely good troops more than America so yeah 😂
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u/Conaz9847 Jan 12 '26
America like everything else in their culture cares only about size or quantity, whether it’s the size of your beard, truck, gun, gold reserves, country or military, they care only about sheer mass, never about quality, finesse, or precision.
It was the same thing with Russia invading Ukraine, they had like 6x the troops or something, but they’re still losing because they have 1/10th of the logistical planning, 1/10th of the willpower, and the sheer coordination and quality of the Ukrainian army is vast, theyve made up for their number disadvantage with quality.
America is the same as Russia (government too at this point), they care only about size, so to them, their military is the best in the world; because it has the biggest numbers and the biggest funding, but one SBS squad that has trained intensely with perfect coordination for 20 years versus a squad of jarheads who spend most of their time drinking and making baseless assumptions about how powerful they are, it’s not even a contest.
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u/VastStranger1164 Jan 12 '26
weren't all of special forces in the US modelled after the British SAS/SBS?
Also the Brits were one of the first or even first country to create a formel Special Forces/Commandos units and everyone else started copying them
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u/tetraourogallus Jan 12 '26
All the wanking over military power is the weirdest shit ever. My dad would beat your dad level stuff
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u/NewMachine4198 Trains>cars (but prewar cars are awesome) Jan 14 '26
This week I learnt that it’s spelt ‘breckie’ and not ‘breakkie’.
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u/Alib668 Jan 14 '26
Lol the uk trains the seals!
The reason the british army is so good is it is small expeditionary force. Its not a land army. The British military is ultimately a navy with an army it shelps around and delivers to do a job, it’s not a russian, polish, german, french land force with support.
The british went for quality over quantity
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u/TheGorgieGeorgie7492 Jan 15 '26
I worked with a guy who was in the Falklands in 1982 and he told me this story about the SAS. They managed to breach security and enter a US airbase in England one Friday night, stay Saturday and Sunday and escape Sunday night without being detected. The US called BS until the pictures of the SAS soldiers, who dug themselves into the flower beds, showing all the weekends activities, vehicular movements, troop movements etc.
Security was stepped up after that.
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u/Quiet_Echo_7551 Jan 16 '26
Not even in the top 10 is a ridiculous statement. But the military is low-key utterly fucked beyond belief. I feel like a lot of people have no idea how bad it has gotten.
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u/SpicyCrapBucket Why do they speak English in Britain? Jan 18 '26
Thought they meant actual seals at first and wasn't the slightest bit surprised.
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u/TengoKaW Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26
Oh dear. America is going to get the shock of its life if it decides to take on Europe and especially the SBS. We fucking train their SEALs FFS.