does physical strength still matter in warfare

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Anon09/07/26, 18:46No.65489945

Modern soldiers have the heaviest standard kit in history

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Anon09/07/26, 19:01No.65489973

yes

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Anon09/07/26, 19:03No.65489976

Nothing matters. Until it does.

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Anon09/07/26, 19:10No.65489988

With every generation of warfare soldiers carry more and more shit and it will get worse

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Anon09/07/26, 19:10No.65489990

There's nothing a good mindset cannot fix. You can overcome all your physical hurdles if you believe you can!

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Anon09/07/26, 19:38No.65490055

>do people who are naturally small ... make bad soldiers? in the age of melee? totally in the modern age? hell no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Vining

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Anon09/07/26, 19:39No.65490060

small and weak correlates with cowardly and flimsy

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Anon09/07/26, 19:44No.65490071

endurance physical and mental is probably way more important but also

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Anon09/07/26, 20:45No.65490214

>Does physical strength still matter in warfare? Yes. Even if soldiers weren't expected to carry 80+ lbs of shit in the field these days, they're still expected to do some amount of manual labor. >For instance, do people who are naturally small and weak make bad soldiers? Small? No. Plenty of short kings have gone on to do high speed shit. It's not advantageous in most circumstances mind you, but it's never been a disqualifier either. Weak? Sorta, as it makes you an innately inferior combatant, but there's other ways to contribute towards a military effort besides fighting. Anyways, I believe attitude is largely what defines whether or not somebody is a good or bad soldier. Look at the SEALs for example; a lot of them are athletically gifted or otherwise well trained, but their unit culture has resulted in a laundry list of public embarrassments, catastrophic losses, and an absurd number of war crimes.

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Anon09/07/26, 20:56No.65490243

The amount of key equipment a soldier can personally carry is very important. Batteries for radios and jammers, FPVs, water, and even traditional ammunition are all like currency soldiers have to pay to keep fighting.The physically strongest side can carry more. So they can fight longer, kill more enemies, and defend themselves better. They also get less tired, so they can apply more brainpower to how they fight. It's a feedback cycle.This is probably where the science fiction ideas of powered armor came from: the fantasy of giving a soldier so much resources they can freely apply their brainpower and defenses to survive a war.

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Anon09/08/26, 14:04No.65491994

Oh no dis flied lice too heavy me so solly...

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Anon09/08/26, 14:33No.65492042

Does physical strength still matter in warfare? Yes, but being mentally strong is significantly more important. >For instance, do people who are naturally small and weak make bad soldiers?Not necessarily. Physical fitness can be and is trained constantly in the military. And carrying a heavy load is far more about cardiovascular endurance than strength. You’ll see way tall scrawny bean pole looking dudes than roidmaxxers in the infantry.

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Anon09/08/26, 14:42No.65492059

The future is going to involve a lot of drones and a lot of digging. Like this guy said

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Anon09/08/26, 14:46No.65492065

Nonsense. 5ft tall rice farmers manhandled American soldiers.

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Anon09/08/26, 15:37No.65492168

If you're took weak to carry your gear, you're useless.

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Anon09/08/26, 15:51No.65492193

Physical capacity is still possibly the single most important factor in combat and always has been.Sometimes wartime drafts where they will take anyone obscures this, but the physical standards for professional soldiers are incredibly high.And it's not like Olympic, elite fitness, or elite sports, or even like labourers there's a combinatiom of specific attributes they want. >awkward lift/unsafe lift In industrial environments you're typically banned outright from doing these so nobody cares whether you can or not. In the army, you're expected to perform unsafe lifts and this is one of the leading causes of veterans being crippled,unemployed and fucked up. So it's a kind of strength, muscle set, coordination which most people don't have. >performance under load How well do you do stuff, while also carrying stuff. >peak climb It's a minimum standard you see a lot in police, weeds out people who through bring short, fat, limited mobility can't do things like jump fences. And it's notable because many people who might do really well at other fitness standards still couldn't jump a fence.Often the army won't even bother entry training of recruits who are fundimentally too short, slight.

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Anon09/08/26, 18:20No.65492519

Cardio is king, the more endurance you have the less likely you'll be exhausted at a bad time. As for strength it heavily depends on your role and the style of fighting. If you are an insurgent making hit and run attacks while traveling light it really doesn't matter but if you are dragging suppies through the jungle strength matters a lot more.Reading about the Karen fighting in Burma it sounds like they really need both because while being hit and run insurgents they need to travel by foot though jungle while carrying enough supplies for what is often a weeks march.

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Anon09/08/26, 18:31No.65492548

Of all visible skills strength and endurance matter more than any other flashy stuff like marksmanship or idk courage Once your heart is out you become lazy and stupid

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Anon09/08/26, 18:56No.65492630

You would not make a bad soldier because you're 5'6 or not able to bench 100kg, you would make a bad soldier because you're fat and wheeze carrying your (unladen) body up a flight of stairs. A big 6'5'', 17 stone mountain of a man will be a lot more use in lugging heavy stuff on a long march but his aerobic capacity might be worse off than that of an average sized guy. Armies can't choose to be too picky out of a typically small selection of volunteers so a manlet who really wants to fight can get put in a tank or something.

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