"Besides, how long does it take to train a special forces soldier? According to public reports, training a Navy SEAL can take up to two years, including hundreds of hours of training and thousands of hours of actual combat exercises."
"Furthermore, food, lodging, medical care, and other support must be provided during training. In peacetime, your country might be able to manage that, but during wartime, would your country still have the spare capacity to train people at such a leisurely pace?"
"However, if you had a 'Combat Augmentor,' the situation would be completely different. You wouldn't need such a long training period. As long as this 'Combat Augmentor' was implanted, anyone could become an existence comparable to a Navy SEAL."
Chapter 320: Takemura (3K)
After hearing Su Xiao's words, List fell silent again.
Just as Su Xiao had said, in theory, as long as they had enough money, they could mass-produce large numbers of special forces soldiers.
And the Republic of Texas was not short of money right now.
Besides, Su Xiao was right.
Training special forces was time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Money was a minor issue. The key was that during an actual war, the speed at which special forces could be trained definitely could not keep up with the rate at which they were lost.
During the early stages of the Pacific War, Japan's Zero fighters had given the United States plenty of trouble. However, by the middle and later stages of the war, the Zero fighter had been mockingly dubbed a "turkey" by the American military.
This was certainly partly because American aircraft had surpassed the Zero in performance, but there was another factor that could not be ignored.
The elite pilots Japan had trained before the war had vanished in the blink of an eye, like