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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’d call this extremely poor word choice, tbh (or at least, I’m going to go with that interpretation at this point).

Effectiveness is the only metric that really matters in the context of how good a given country’s military is. And generally, being able to conduct missions with an absolute minimum amount of collateral damage and unnecessary casualties of any sort is considered to be a fairly direct way to gauge that effectiveness.