>>5933122Okay so this is a bit awkward. Uh... We're increasing military spending by 50%. I'm not sure if that's quite right, but we can say there was corruption and downsizing after the most recent wars ended. We can also say some people got fired or purged, or they were recruited into the intelligence branch or law enforcement.
Checking the charts, we should have a lot of broken and old stuff. A good portion of our AKs would be old, not every squad (10 guys in two trucks - 1/3 of a huge truck, or an armored vehicle, or walking with a mule or two) has an RPG or belt-fed, not every soldier has a 1980s tech Kevlar helmet and a Kevlar vest.
Basically, looking at pictures and checking numbers, our guys used to look like this.