It encourages dog-piling essentially

Fesshole

Excellent TIL. A really interesting figure on wikipedia also says the Prussians had a bigger actual peak mobilised figure which tells the tale of why artillery is so effective too. They massacred the French and so they had to mobilise more people

How many more men do you think you would need to overturn a 10:1 artillery advantage then?

All good arguments for artillery win battles. I’m glad you agree. Would a side without any artillery win a war against those without? Well, you could ask that about air support, or intelligence, or tanks, or machine guns, or UAVs now. And the answer would be no to all of them. I’m not saying artillery isn’t essential either.

How about instead, what would happen in a war of 2 million men with 1k artillery pieces vs 1 million men with 10k artillery pieces? I’m pretty sure the 2m men would still manage to over-run the 1m, artillery be damned. Costs would be high, but 2:1 men on the battlefield would negate a 10:1 artillery advantage I’m pretty sure

And yet, did the weight of men not decide the day? I fully appreciate the roll of artillery and think Starmer’s latest investment frankly baffling when shell production is the one thing that could actually help Ukraine too. But artillery don’t win wars, men do

Has there ever been a war where the army with the fewer troops has won the war?

I think you need to go back and revisit to Sun Tzu. Without troops no war can be won. Now I’m not saying Artillery isn’t important, but Artillery alone will not win a war. Is there any war where a numerically inferior army has won? And I don’t mean individual battles, of which there are most certainly examples, a full campaign. The closest I can find is the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War which it should be noted the Red Army got want it fought for, just at enourmous cost

Never let a good line get in the way of statistics

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342260/wwii-mobilization-by-country/

The Red Army was double the Germans, who had to fight on two fronts. Troops win wars. Artillery wins battles.

Shells win battles. Troops win wars

I think asking other instances to remove too is reasonable also

This is big. Bluesky is getting lots of traction with normies who want off Twitter. Mastodon and pleroma and pixelfed all about to become much more discoverable

No

They are unclogging it next time then surely

It is lemmy essentially. By far most communities, users, and a single point of failure in essence. That makes is quite good for getting it technically correct however, the best kind of correct

Reddit took many years to build that reputation. And earned creepy badges along the way. I’m not saying the fediverse doesn’t need to do it, but let’s not be in a rush. We have technical challenges, and a lemmy.world, and a .ml problem before we’re ready for the big leagues

And being niche is fine for now, email was tiny for decades

Jerboa, very Reddit is Fun like, on f-droid too!

Me obviously, it certainly isn’t anyone else

I prefer jerboa

Great news indeed then, go Mastodon!

Lemmy has the same issues I believe. Lots of people not exactly happy with the two core devs either