the historical reference in question:
I love how westerners need to keep rediscovering the “simpler equipment that you can actually make a bunch of beats the amazing wunderwaffe” idea over and over again, you’d think WW2, you know, literally the largest war ever fought, would teach some lessons, but I guess not
The American military memory of ww2 was heavily influenced by nazi officers writing books about the eastern front for Americans to “learn” about how to fight the soviets, accepted pretty uncritically