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Mitthrawnuruo t1_irh8iyx wrote

Reply to comment by danteheehaw in TIL Boeing B17 pilots often accidentally raised the undercarriage after landing, destroying the propellors and damaging the underbelly, due to the undercarriage lever and the flap lever looking the same. by Lkwzriqwea

The Japanese may not have been great at being innovative, but that didn’t make them dumb.

Before the First World War they very carefully sent military experts to study every military in the world.

And then modeled the Navy after the British, and the Army after the Germans…which is telling, since most of the west considered the French the premier Army in the world before WWI.

And the Germany army that showed up was easily one of the top three armies mankind as every organized, in - long history of war.

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ItsallaboutProg t1_irkipn9 wrote

The French got their ass kicked by Germany 40 years earlier, and the British had the only standing professional army at the time, though it was small. Out of the 5 European powers the Germans were the rising country at the time. It was a pretty logical decision.

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