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  • Logistics is effectively the hardest problem and the most expensive one.

    A lot of people don’t realize that a lot of wasteful spending is effectively required in order to maintain any semblance or level of readiness.

    If you are not manufacturing equipment, ammunition, and similar items then you have no one and nowhere to actually manufacture them. A large part of spending is keeping the people, skill sets, facilities, and supply chains running and operating at a minimum required level to support an increase in need. If you don’t do this then when you need it, you can’t manufacture it anymore, your entire supply chain has to start from scratch.

    It’s incredibly wasteful but also somewhat necessary.










  • They learned how to swim by being thrown in.

    Which would by definition be a form of practice.

    Which means they learned how to swim by practice.

    Which means they did not learn how to swim simply through theory. They first had to practice and then apply the theory they learned, which is still learning by practice.

    The spirit of ops question would be reading and learning about it and then being able to jump in the pool and swim without practicing, immediately. Because if you cannot and you first have to practice then by the very statement of this sentence you learned via practice.



  • That practice isn’t just reading or watching to learn. That practice is the motor skill development necessary to apply what you have learned.

    Which means the answer would still be no because you are cheating by practicing. You did not just learn about it by watching videos and reading, You learned about it through development of motor skills through practice.

    You have not “learned to swim” by only reading & watching at that point. You have learned to swim the way everyone else does, but being in water and practicing.

    Which is opposite to the presented problem.

    To stick to the spirit of the question, learning to swim without ever swimming would be dropping yourself into the middle of a lake after reading and watching about swimming. And then you either learned about it and you swim away or you didn’t and you drown.

    We all know how ridiculous that is because you would just drown.


  • There’s a difference between already developing motor skills and then trying to improve those motor skills by learning from the skills of others.

    And having not developed those motor skills and then trying to learn them from the experiences of others.

    If you have never crawled or walked your entire life, you can’t learn how to crawl or walk just by reading about it. The neural pathways literally don’t exist for you to be able to balance and move. You would need to actually do the physical actions to develop those neural connections for those motor skills to develop.

    A significant part of our brain is dedicated to controlling our body, not just to knowledge and thinking. Those portions of our brain largely develop alongside us actually moving and practicing motor skills.

    You could learn technique and what you’re not supposed to do as long as you have all the prerequisite motor skills relate to that information. If you are missing the prerequisite motor skills then you will not be able to.

    That last part is where many of these “Absolutely not” answers are grounded.