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  • Early on up until the first Avengers they were, but that movie strained the relationship due to how much the DoD wanted to meddle in the production. They didn’t like the helicarriers due to realism, for example. And you can see shit like F-35’s on the flight deck, national guard doing their thing during the invasion, Captain America straight up using an M4, things like that.

    After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.















  • You’ve been seeing this from their combat footage for over a year.

    Troop movements almost always consist of less than a dozen people, and often less than half a dozen. Even lone troops moving about by foot or on bikes of some variety are seen. When heavy equipment like tanks are employed they are often alone, maybe paired with one or two partners.

    You could make the argument that heavy use of unmanned drone and satellite recon makes larger troop buildups risky, but it feels like Ukraine and Russia both are hurting for competent infantry and they simply do not have enough to spread around the front to do any better. Because the way the fighting is happening now kind of flies in the face of modern combined arms doctrine.