Harry Potter and the Military Industrial Complex

  • meep_launcher@lemm.eeOP
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    3 months ago

    I would also consider the logistics of war. There’s a military saying: novices study tactics, experts study logistics.

    How long would it take to train a wizard to get to that level vs. a muggle with a gun? It feels like the classic knight vs. armed peasant situation.

    That plus being able to cut off food supplies or infrastructure- just saying the US military was able to take out sadams military capabilities faster than he could react.

    • ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      But the inverse also applies - there’s not much stopping wizards from portkeying/apparating into the Oval Office or the pentagon and magibombing them, or Avada-ing key targets. Wizards are probably the worst kind of guerrilla fighters - ones unchecked by range. And as far as food is concerned, food multiplication is a thing. I personally believe that in the long term, the way muggles would win would be through subverting wizards, not by pure overwhelming force.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Wizards win logistics, they can enchant a car to hold as much as a 747. They can teleport, fly, levitate, and banish things. Their biggest problem is raw numbers.