Also disposal of a lot of untested yet obsolescent surplus war material to make room for new equipment. Idk if ATACAMS ever got fired during the empire’s prior occupations, but firing an SRBM designed for a 1990s European cold war gone hot at Iraqis would probably seem wasteful for even the bloodthirstiest general
If Washington’s objective was to get a whole lot of Russians and Ukrainians killed
Also disposal of a lot of untested yet obsolescent surplus war material to make room for new equipment. Idk if ATACAMS ever got fired during the empire’s prior occupations, but firing an SRBM designed for a 1990s European cold war gone hot at Iraqis would probably seem wasteful for even the bloodthirstiest general