Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha View Post
So what do you want? Weigh index comparison? average height? Educational standards? Now if you would claim that USA has the best Navy in the world equipment wise, Answer would be easy yes, but no.You claim that one population of same cultural area is somehow inheritently superior to others. Nice word comes to mind ubermenchen. What exactly are you basing that idea, even more so when you have no military training yourself that certain Nation no matter of any factors reigns just supreme, because you say so? You discount history and statistics, also reality. In how many of the reacent wars European troops have been present? How many times they have fared more poor then anyone else, or in matter of fact any better? If you just decide that entire continent full of people have somehow mysteriosly lost their will to defend themselves, you really have to bring even one minor factual shred of evidence to the table.So please do so?
I already did talk about several in the other threads. For one, the (admitted) loathing of war and dangerously obsessive desire to avoid it held by so many Western Europeans. Right there you take motive and purpose away. In many ways, you get out of training what you put into it. How motivated are you? How serious are you about being the best? Can you be serious about being the best (and therefore work torward it) if you firmly believe that alliances and trade will make your role (a soldier) completely useless, and therefore your whole military is just a facade or some sort of bad joke?