Redirection Of Mail In Special Circumstances: Fill & Download for Free

When she submitted a COA - did she do this online or used the handwritten form?Either way she would have received a confirmation letter via email/USPS mail. Find this confirmation letter and cancel it.Have her resubmit a corrected COA - select “individual” NOT “entire household”. If you don’t select anything I believe the default is “entire household” - probably what happened in this case.OR cancel the original COA and manually submit updates to her address for each item she receives at your address. This is how I handled my aging parents mail when they lived with me and moved out. I was able to eliminate their unwanted/unneeded/SCAM/Medicare junk/junk mail.Every family member “still” living in your home may have to submit a COA back to the original address - verify this first though. Remember your dealing with computers NOT humans sorting the mail. So the database needs to be correct!Be prepared that your family members will now have her address listed online under their names!! Especially whitepages - check this database to see if it has already been listed as your “new” current address. Whitepages uses the NCOA (National change of address) database as well as the USPS informed delivery database.https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Change-of-Address-The-Basics#confirmationChange of Address ConfirmationAfter scheduling a Change of Address (COA), USPS will promptly mail, to the address you are leaving, a Move Validation Letter (MVL) to validate the move.MVL Envelope imageMVL Letter imageWithin 5 Postal business days before the COA start date, you will also receive a Customer Notification Letter (CNL) or a Welcome Kit in the mail at your new address. The CNL and Welcome Kit contain your Confirmation Code, (which is displayed in the area of Confirmation Code:) Hold on to the Code to easily make changes or cancel your COA order. Without the Code, you’ll have to visit a Post Office to change or cancel your COA order.If you submitted your Change of Address (COA) online, you will receive the MVL and CNL mentioned above. Additionally, you will also receive a Change of Address Confirmation via email containing the Confirmation Code. Again, make sure to retain the Code for future changes/cancellations.*Due to privacy and security issues, USPS does not issue duplicate COA confirmation letters except for special or unusual circumstances. In those circumstances, a fee of $56.00 will be charged.Users of Informed Delivery® FeatureDid you receive an email informing you that your access to Informed Delivery service(s) has been temporarily suspended? The detection of a Change of Address submission corresponding to your online account triggered this suspension for security purposes. You can learn more about restoring these services by clicking here.https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Change-of-Address-Refund-Request#topWhat Happens NextOn the designated Change of Address (COA) start date, USPS stops delivering mail to your previous address. As we redirect mail to your new address, you can expect it to start arriving within 7-10 Postal business days from the COA start date.Temporary COA forwarding time limits: The minimum time period for temporary forwarding is 15 days. Temporary COAs, or seasonal forwarding, provide forwarding of mail to a temporary address for a maximum of 364 days, starting with the listed start date. Mail will stop being forwarded on the end date you listed on your COA request.Permanent COA forwarding time limits: Mail sent to your old address will be forwarded to the new address for a certain amount of time, depending on the mail class (see chart below). Forwarding time limits for specific mail classes is as follows.

Everyone answering this would be doing so based on opinion. Diagnosing a public personality is strongly discouraged.That said…What defines a narcissist? According to DSM-V:A grandiose sense of self-importanceA preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal loveA belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutionsA need for excessive admirationA sense of entitlementInterpersonally exploitive behaviorA lack of empathyEnvy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or herA demonstration of arrogant and haughty behaviors or attitudesLet’s pick out a few stories about Meghan Duchess of Sussex, and see where we go from there.Let her first husband know it was over by sending back her rings - by mail. Dang! That seemed pretty cold! Ex-partner Trevor Engelson was devastated.At least Megs didn’t lose her engagement ring like I did…Has a history of befriending people only to drop them when they are no longer useful - ask Piers Morgan (though am not a big fan of Piers Morgan, I commiserate). Ghosts old pals.Sheesh, Megs, just tell them you dropped your phone in the toilet. That’s what I do.Personal assistants quitting soon after working with her due to alleged “difficult behaviour”. It was said she talked down to staff, unlike Kate. “The message from the Queen was very much Meghan needed to think about how she speaks to staff members and be careful to follow family protocols.”“Bullied by a Royal? Sure boosts the ol’ CV”Expressed envy at the duchess of Cambridge’s royal wedding. From Meghan’s blog The Tig: “Little girls dream of being princesses. I, for one, was all about She-Ra, Princess of Power… We're definitely not talking about Cinderella here. Grown women seem to retain this childhood fantasy. Just look at the pomp and circumstance surrounding the royal wedding and endless conversation about Princess Kate.” Yet Meghan herself had a fancy royal wedding costing $45M :-) (Meghan’s wedding dress in her marriage to Engelson looked similar to the reception wedding dress Kate had worn. More Kate envy?)Meghan’s first wedding dressKate’s reception wedding dressSo girls, never blog about your envy over another girl. You never know if said girl could become your sister-in-law.Tiara incident. Harry allegedly said “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets,” and both became unhappy when told she could not wear her tiara of choice (an emerald one said to be the most expensive in the collection). The Queen made it known that Meghan would wear whatever tiara the Queen gave her. (Later Eugenie was allowed to wear this emerald tiara, but Meghan’s diamond one is by no means shabby.)“Diamonds aren’t always a girl’s best friend but they’ll have to do.”She had separated Harry from his friends. Harry’s best friend Skippy (Tom Inskip) had voiced reservations about Meghan and since then things had been frosty between the two. Skippy was not invited to Harry and Meghan’s wedding reception, which was full of A-listers... some of whom did not actually know the couple. That close friends were disinvited and replaced with celebrities speaks volumes. Someone commented that “It was full of showbiz personalities, as if Megan lived in a completely artificial world.”“You think I’m bad news, Skippy? I’ll show you bad news! No invite for you!!”She keeps saying she wants privacy... but also puts herself and Harry into the spotlight through press releases (see multiple links).Meghan commenting on BLM after George Floyd’s death. “Is it tasteless to take advantage of this? Not at all…”She doesn’t get along with her family and caused a rift with Harry’s own family. Maybe Meghan’s father’s side are troublemakers. None of them were invited to the wedding. Recently they reacted negatively to the Oprah interview. But there are also stories of Meghan not getting along with William and Kate, and just rubbing people the wrong way (the Queen reportedly got upset that the Sussexes were racking up big bills).Thomas Markle Sr., Meghan’s estranged father. Don’t worry Tom, at least no one hated on you after watching The Crown. Wait till season 10.She thinks son Archie is entitled to be a prince and blames it on racism. Meghan implied in the Oprah interview that Archie wasn’t given a title due to his skin colour. There are many problems with this. One is that she didn’t say who mentioned this, leaving things open to speculation. Also Archie is not really entitled to be a Prince due to an edict by King George. Either these two know it and are twisting the truth, or they haven't been paying attention.“They said he might become a ginger! Ugh!!!”Said they had a garden wedding and that a big wedding was unnecessary. Reports say that a big wedding was what they wanted all along.“Take that, haters!”Just based on these stories, the one takeaway we have is that Meghan is polarising. Narcissist? Or entitled millennial? Or just treated unfairly by the press?Let’s be real folks. If you’re part of the royal family, you will get lots of bad rep. Look at Fergie. Look at Camilla. Even Kate Middleton was scrutinised in the beginning (because she was a commoner, and marrying a direct heir to the throne). If one is a Royal, one’s life is taxpayer-provided. People feel they have a right to follow them on the news.Meghan got lots of positive coverage at first - mags were gushing over her. People loved Prince Harry and were glad he was settling down. Everyone felt so modern - generations ago people balked at an American divorcée, and now not only do we have one, she is also half Black.Things were going their way. Prince Charles walked her down the aisle in a wedding that cost $45M. Frogmore Cottage was renovated for them with extra amenities for $3M (which they later repaid after negative feedback).People have been likening her treatment to Diana’s but Diana had it worse. She did her duties and was deeply into humanitarian projects. She was hounded by the press till her death.Have the reactions to Meghan been racist? Surely there are racists everywhere, and Meghan has every right to call them out. But it doesn’t mean the press can’t print things about her that she doesn’t agree with - though most did, at the beginning, lest they be accused of racism.Their decision to move out of the UK was universally met with disenchantment about the couple. They lost a lot of sympathy since then.People have learnt their lesson by now. The Palace are cautious in dealing with the couple. The press are not hounding them, but trying to provide truthful coverage (and expressing honest opinions). They are looking into their headlines to see which connote racism. That’s a good thing.So though I hesitate to call Meghan a narcissist, I wouldn’t blame people if the former is their impression. What do you think?Note: content based on public links as attached below. This is a sincere attempt to answer the question with no malicious intent.Harry, Meghan and me: my truth as a royal reporterA Brief History Of Harry, Meghan And Frogmore Cottagehttps://www.ccn.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-mortgage/Racist Meghan headlines? CBS doubles down on criticism of UK tabloidsMeghan Markle loses a NINTH member of staff as top aide quitsMeghan Markle's Former Friend Has A Grave Warning For The Royal Family$57 million Harry shouldn’t have takenBigoted UK press? Harry and Meghan racism debate - Press GazetteChaos as Meghan Markle and Prince Harry lose THREE vital staff members from their team in six months...Meghan Markle criticized Kate Middleton’s royal wedding long before she met HarryMeghan Markle apparently wanted to wear Princess Eugenie's tiara on her wedding day | Marie ClaireHere's Why Harry Blamed The Queen's Dresser After Meghan Markle Was Refused Her First Choice Of Wedding TiaraMeghan Markle's wedding dress from her first marriage looked like it was inspired by Kate Middleton's gownMeghan Markle's first marriage - who was her first husband and what is her ex-husband doing now?Embarrassing truth behind Meghan and Harry wedding photosGeorge and Amal Clooney 'didn't know Prince Harry and Meghan' at weddingFeminist author: Did Meghan Markle ‘fake love’ for Harry to become more famous?It didn’t take long for Harry and Meghan to prove they are hypocritesThe Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s DecisionRedirect Noticehttps://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/micky.com.au/prince-harrys-spending-transformation-caused-royal-rift-new-book-claims/Opinion | Meghan and Harry: Aristocratic Victims for Our TimesWas Meghan's son Archie denied the title 'prince' because he's mixed race?Meghan Markle's father and half sister have plenty to say about her Oprah interview

The US. Easily. Now, to be clear, I love the concept of Wakanda but militarily its completely trumped. Long story short, the US has a military built for real warfare, and Wakanda has a military built for a movie. It’s just not a fair comparison but in any case let’s go to the “whys”. So, so many whys:Overrated Technology:The basic premise of Wakanda is that they look like a third-world country but are actually so advanced they actually make the US look like a third-world country.However, the MCU hasn’t exactly translated this super-well to the big screen. There are only about 3 technologies that really stand out to me that the MCU Wakanda has, all of which are ultimately overrated.Their energy shields.Their aircraftThe Black Panther suit.Firstly, the shields. The city itself has a shield and this technology is shown to be downsized with infantry shields. The shields would be a great asset infantry, but unfortunately they’re actually not.In military science there is a progressive level of protection from the enemy. The first and best defense is if the enemy doesn’t expect and even know of you’re presence.In short, if you don’t want to get killed, remain undetected. If they’re aware of your presence, at least don’t be seen. If you’re seen, at least don’t get hit. If you’re hit, at least don’t get penetrated. If you’re penetrated, at least don’t get killed.What armor and shields try to do (stop penetration) is step 4 of a 5-step process. The Wakandan shield is built for a scenario which you have already been detected, seen, and hit. I don’t care if that shield is completely impenetrable: if there’s a scenario in which those three things are happening, something has gone wrong.Getting hit and surviving is great, but situational awareness is far better than any amount of armor: see first, shoot first, hit first, penetrate first, and kill first is the ideal combat scenario, not get hit, don’t get penetrated, then fire back.Also worth considering is that modern infantry almost never use bulletproof shields in combat, and when they do it’s in very specialized roles such as the point of a building-clearing team. Even still, they’re not used to the awkwardness and bulk of a shield in modern combat, as well as the fact that it leaves only one hand for your weapon, requiring you to use either an inferior one-handed weapon (i.e pistol instead of assault rifle) or use only one hand for a weapon that’s better handled with two.While the energy shields are doubtlessly lighter than SWAT-style entry shields used by modern police and militaries, the basic threat management flaw still holds: not only are advanced shields meant for a scenario in which you’ve been detected, seen, and hit before you could do it to the enemy: the shields actually make being detected, seen, and hit more likely by virtue of lighting up in a whitish-blue light.This is like anti-camouflage.A far better approach would be to work on making soldiers invisible or having some sort of active, hologram based camouflage technology, something which Wakanda clearly has the tech for given their whole city is hidden by a hologram. If they can downsize the energy shield for personal use, why not invisibility. I’d be far more terrified fighting an army of invisible soldiers than ones with shields.Secondly, we have their aircraft, which fire lasers. All I can say is “Oh boy, another sci-fi aircraft that seems super-advanced but depends completely on Within Visual Range weaponry”. Even if we assume their shields make them invincible they don’t seem to have too many of them, given we only see a handful in the background in Infinity War and how they only seem to have one “airport” and a small one at that.In short, there will be no Independence Day style aerial massacres. Best case scenario is turns out they’re immune to our air-to-air missiles and our jets are far away enough to retreat safely to base (seeing as we can engage them from dozens of miles away with missiles but they can’t). Worst case we get cocky and lose a few dozen aircraft in close-range dogfights before adjusting our tactics and mission loadouts i.e we’d focus more on missiles than bombs, or use cheaper aircraft and drones piloted by AI we’re not afraid to lose.Lastly, we have the BP suit. The BP suit is an infantryman’s dream, making the wearer almost invincible. Unfortunately, it’s main weapons are claws and I don’t think it can be mass-produced. I don’t think there’d be more than enough for a platoon of soldiers. That’s certainly enough to cause trouble on the ground for maybe a few hundred or a few thousand US soldiers, or strike at a key unit or facility, but ultimately any special forces equipped with the BP suit are going to be a force multiplier, not a force (i.e. they can’t win the war on their own, just make it easier for others) and as we’ll explore, they don’t have much of that either.Organization:Here’s what a modern infnatry division looks like.Google Image Result for http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/24th_US_Infantry_Division_1989.pngWe also have an experienced and large corps of NCOs and other kinds of officers to streamline command and control, or take intiative on their own.Wakandan organization, on the other hand, is basically just a medieval levy system where each tribe contributes some troops to supplement the king and his bodyguards. It’s literally a centuries-outdated method of raising an army, and there’s a reason why professional armies have replaced them: they’re unstandardized.Levies aren’t just simply your vassal giving you a few hundred guys to do whatever you want with. You’re basically building your army from a bunch of other armies, leaving you with a mixed force where weapons, training, unit size, tactics and doctrine can vary wildly.This can be seen in the Jabari Tribe, who brought sticks to the battle for the universe. While their dedication to low-tech tradition is an understandable trademark of their particular culture (I have no problem with off-grid living in and of itself), it seems that no one bothered thinking that maybe the trillions of sentient lifeforms at stake merited a break from their cultural norms. If this kind of nonsense is allowed when the universe is at stake, it seems clear that in no circumstances will Wakanda ever force its soldiers to equip, train, or fight a certain way.Lack of layered defenses:Wakanda has very little strategic depth. It’s just one city with one contingent of soldiers. There are no strategic-level fallback positions and no reserve if they fail. It’s greatest asset is the energy shield, but once you get through that they’re basically screwed since it’s their best and pretty much only line of defense.Total lack of CRBN defenses:The Black Panther suit probably comes with a filtration system and the shield may be able to protect Wakanda from disease, poison, and radiation, but what about the soldiers themselves?Once you get past that shield a single chemical or biological warhead could wipe their entire army out. I’m sure they have some magic cure-all antidote, but having thousands of dying troops that are revived easily is not as good as having them all be fine because they had gas masks.Meanwhile, modern soldiers have been trained and equipped to deal with chemical weapons since the First World War.Lack of WMDs:I’m pretty sure Shuri could create a Vibranium Nuke that’d make Tsar Bomba look like a firecracker, and of course the comics version of Wakanda has things that make nukes look like conventional weapons, but ultimately any idea that MCU Wakanda has WMDs is speculation.In fact, I’d almost say we can guarantee they don’t have them. The stakes in Infinity War were so high that it means that everyone is not holding back. If there was a time to reveal or use a skill/ability/weapon/whatever, IW would be the event to use it for.Seeing as a battle for the fate of the universe would more than justify a nuke or chemical weapon, we can safely say MCU Wakanda does not have them. The country is isolated so it’s not like collateral damage would be a problem.This lack of WMDs means not only does Wakanda have limited ability to wage war on a strategic scale, but also that the US is completely undeterred in using their nukes, chemicals, and pathogens.No logistical or medical support:Wakanda has great medical care, but the military apparently has no medics to administer treatments on the field, and the hovercraft that carried troops to the battlefield wasnt seem carrying any wounded back.Also, soldiers carry extra of everything. Extra weapons, extra parts, food, ammo, a sidearm entrneching tools, bandages. EVERYTHING.As far as I’mconcerned each Wakandan soldier only carries one spear and one shield. If either fails to operate 100% as expected you’re screwed.No body armor or helmets:I’ve already explained why shields are a bad idea in the overrated technology section, but that being said if you’re trying to not be penetrated, you might as well have armor if you’re also going to have a shield. It makes sense to wear armor but no shield (i.e. to free both hands) but not the other way around.Wakanda by all rights should be able to outfit everyone with at least some sort of full-body suit of some kind. Maybe the Black Panther suit can’t be mass-produced, but at a bare minimum every Wakandan soldier should have something like the Mark I Iron Man Suit.In fact, it doesn’t even have to be power armor. A modern-style vest but with Vibranium instead of Kevlar and ceramic would be more than acceptable. Or how about medieval plate armor or the kind of scale patterns used by Roman Legionaries or samurai? Some sort of modernized chain-mail would be far more practical (and cooler) than what we saw.This isn’t even a tactical concern: it’s a missed opportunity from a thematic and storytelling standpoint. Given how Black Panther is inspired by African culture, are you going to tell me that there isn’t a single noteworthy armor pattern of African origin? In fact, this has already been answered: Did ancient Africans wear armor if so pictures?The costume department could have had a killer day crafting some badass Vibranium armor designs that would pay homage to Africa’s military history, and yet we just get somewhat generic tribal garb that as far as I can tell doesn’t incorporate the material that Wakanda A. has a lot of and B. can refine and use pretty much any way they want. The failure to use any kind of body armor (or indeed, any kind of uniform for that matter) is a failure of fashion, worldbuilding, tactics, resource management, and common sense on all levels.If nothing else, go grab a bowl from your kitchen and duct tape it to your head. Everyone from athletes to soldiers and cops know the value of head protection. It contains 4 of your 5 sensory organs and your brain, the absolute most vital organ. If for some reason you must wear no armor (stealth, flexibility, weight, mobility, etc) at least wear a helmet.If nothing else Captain America of all people would know the value of having helmet on during combat. You know, from fighting WWII and being a supposed tactical genius, he probably saw a lot of this happen:Extremely Low Manpower:Wakanda, in its most desperate hour, with the entire fate of all life in the universe at stake, can barely muster a few thousand combat troops. High school reunions have mobilized more people.On the other hand, the US maintains a military of around 2,000,000 with only volunteers. If it ever came to it, conscription could push this number an entire order of magnitude higher, considering the US military had over 10,000,000 soldiers by the end of WWII with a total population of about half what we have today.Even if they inflict a 1,000:1 casualty ratio the US if nothing else will destroy them through sheer attrition.Little Heavy Ordnance and Almost No Weapon Variety:The Wakandans have energy spears than can supposedly take out a main battle tank. Even if this is true, so? Even the first anti-rank rockets had ranges several times that of a thrown spear (let alone modern anti-tank missiles with ranges of several miles) but this is barely scratching the surface. Where’s their mortars? Artillery guns? Rockets, missiles, close air support aircraft and strategic bombers? The heavy machineguns? The armored personnel carriers, the tanks? Their drones and smart bombs? Cruise missiles? Gatling guns?It doesn’t matter how powerful your small arms are. Even if they can take out a tank (something we never see), a military still needs a wide variety of capabilities to cope with all kinds of battlefield needs and situations. Even something as simple as “a gun” can still have plenty of variety: shotguns, pistols, submachine guns and carbines for tight CQC, sniper rifles for long range shots, assault rifles for general usage, machineguns for laying down suppressive fire, and so on.Even if we were to assume that the Wakandan spear was the ultimate ground combat weapon (it’s actually so bad it gets its own separate bolded point below), let me just ask one question: if Wakandan infantry weapons can take out a tank, what about a jet aircraft miles above you traveling several times the speed of sound? Can they shoot down a missile? Certainly those laser bolts, however powerful, have no guidance capabilities, not that the soldiers would be able to see let alone aim at a target so fast and far away with their bare eyes anyway. They also seem to fly pretty straight: what if a target is over the horizon or not in direct line of sight? All these concerns can be addressed by surface-to-air missiles and artillery respectively, nothing we see the Wakandans have. It doesn’t even necessarily have to be a weapon in order to be necessary on the battlefield. Sometimes you need to use smoke to conceal your movements, mark targets or medivac locations, or confuse the enemy. This is where smoke grenades and smoke rounds come in.The Wakandan army is nothing more than a few thousand infantry with no protection except for a location-signaling shield and armed with a single type of a firearm, transported to the battlefield by unarmed, open-top hovercraft that leave everyone exposed. That’s just atrocious, with the rest of their inventory consisting of a small number of jet aircraft restricted to line-of-sight targeting (a limitation which was lifted in the 60s; while plenty of close-range dogfights have happened since then, this is no longer technologically required) and a small number of supersuits so that their head of state can run around the battlefield and claw enemies to death instead of…you know, shooting them at a safe distance, and maybe having someone else do it while they’re at it.Infantry are the backbone of the military but not the punching arm. Most casualties in warfare are inflicted by artillery and airstrikes, and having only footsoldiers essentially limits the Wakandans to small arms, and as we’ve seen only one small arm at that. Needless to say this puts their overall flexibility and firepower at several orders of magnitude below a real-life military. Even guerillas or third-world militaries at least have some kind of light artillery.Viet Cong with 81mm mortar. It’s also worth noting that the Battle of Khe Sanh, one of the most infamous battles of the Vietnam War, involved a months-long artillery duel between American artillery and aircraft vs. the NVA and Viet-Cong mortars and howitzers.Atrocious Small Arm (singular because of no weapon variety):TL;DR you can turn a gun into a spear, but not the other way around.See this?This is a socket bayonet, the invention that spelled the end of melee weapons as a primary tool in battle. Before the socket bayonet, soldiers with firearms either had to rely on melee infantry for protection or affix “plug bayonets” whose base went into the barrel, preventing them from firing.Melee combat would of course persist for centuries, but with every gunman now a spearman pure spearmen were outdated. Despite being originally a gun, the basic principle of “long shaft with pointy end” still applied, and thus guns were now just as effective as the spears of old were with nothing more than a simple attachment.See this?This is a Wakandan energy spear. It fires energy bolts that, so we are told, can take out a tank. However, there are no sights on that spear, making the aiming difficult. There is no butt or padding to make the spear easy to mount against your shoulder, hindering accuracy. The spear itself shoots bolts of energy that seem slow compared to bullets, light up the battlefield making them easily traceable to your location (as if your blue flashlight shields weren’t enough), and don’t fire as fast as a regular assault rifle even under the assumption they have infinite ammunition, which limits their ability to suppress the enemy with continuous fire like a machinegun can. There is no strap or sling to make it easier to carry for long journeys or if you need to free up both your hands (i.e. carrying something around your base), and the length of the spear itself compromises the user in some situations like urban combat where space is tight. There don’t seem to be any rails or any spaces for attachments, meaning that thermal sights, scopes, night vision lenses, etc or even just a simple flashlight are impossible to utilize. Presumably Wakanda knows the secrets of duct tape, but that is no excuse for lacking what is a standard feature on the vast majority of modern firearms from all us “less advanced” real-life people.Little (that is to say no) Support Equipment:This is what your average modern soldier looks like:This is what a couple average Wakandan soldiers look like:Wakanda is the world’s most technologically advanced civilization, but they make very poor utilization of that technology. Sure, their warriors have energy spears that aren’t as good as a JAVELIN anti-tank missile (or even just a regular M-16) and shields that reveal their location, but none of this compares to the utter travesty of what’s not there.I could honestly go on and on and on and on and on about the literally dozens of items the no Wakandan soldier has that pretty much every American one does, going in length about how they don’t have everything from proper camouflage uniforms (a basic concept universally implemented since the early 1900s) to first aid kids, or even just shovels (which have been standard kit for soldiers since the ancient Romans) , but I’m just going to focus on just one thing, one word.Radio.Every modern soldier should have a radio. No excuses. I don’t care if it’s a child’s walkie-talkie that has only 2 channels and a distance of only a few miles. I do not care if it’s a literal toy radio. Coordination is key in military operations, and the base of this is good communication. In modern times, every soldier who can’t transmit and receive information at literal lightspeed is at a significant, even crippling disadvantage.Granted, Black Panther apparently has some sort of earpiece comms system with fellow superheroes and Shuri, and yes, I suppose the Wakandan army was small enough and packed close enough that one person could be heard clearly by all of them, but two wrongs don’t make a right.“My army is small enough for me to talk to every soldier at once!” is not any sort of excuse the most technologically advanced country should have for not having every single soldier equipped with radios.It’s honestly embarrassing that a nation of Wakanda’s advancement is reduced to yelling verbal commands to the entire army at once like they’re Romans or something.Oh, and even the Romans have them beat, because at least the Romans would have things like horns that can carry an auditory signal farther and more clearly than a single unamplified human voice that’s just going to get lost in the chaos, not to mention standard-bearers which would allow commanders to readily find and distinguish different units on the battlefield.While the Wakandans are unable to fortify their positions for want of shovels, American soldiers’ biggest concerns will be about whether or not the government will help them with their chronic back pain after deployment from lugging around too many useful things.Horrible Doctrine:Wakanda has survived human history by trying to not be noticed. This in itself it not bad since you can observe and learn from others, but we can figure out how Wakanda wants to wage war by focusing on how they do it.When Killmonger aims to make the whole world burn, his plan is essentially this:Use cadres of “War Dogs” that are apparently in every world government to assassinate key military and political officials.Send out shipments of Wakandan weapons to arm black people to rise up.Granted, one could say that this is just Killmonger’s plan, and one could also make the argument that his ideas have no bearing on what Wakanda “would” do. That being said, the infrastructure for his style of warfare was already in place, implying that Wakandan “military” doctrine is based upon spec-ops and espionage instead of conventional forces.Having assassins ready to kill every head of state at a moment’s notice but not more than a few thousand actual soldiers in your actual army seems like a strategic choice and not a limitation. If you can destabilize the globe on a whim, you can field a military larger than your average high school. That just makes sense.This emphasis on special operations is confirmed in the movie’s opening scene wherein a Wakandan hovercraft infiltrates an American neighborhood as well as the Black Panther himself, a highly-capable soldier who takes part in at least two special ops missions in the film (ambushing the convoy and trying to get the guy who stole vibranium).Having expertise in espionage and SF is nice, but they’re the icing on the cake. If 10,000 soldiers attack a village and a covert team manages to assassinate the defending commander in the midst of battle, then victory is more likely. If a SF team just assassinates a commander with no concurrent operations or follow-up, they just ensure someone else gets a promotion.Seal Team Six took out Bin Laden in a historic raid, but the War on Terror also needs Marines and Army soldiers to do the everyday patrols, garrison duties, and humanitarian work.Ideally you should have both, but at the end of the day countries can win with conventional forces without SF, but not the other way around.Little history of combat:As said before Wakanda’s basic survival strategy is to hide from the world. This again is not automatically bad, given that you can observe and study the wars and conflict in other countries.That being said, there is no replacement for the real thing. Outside of minor infighting and a few skirmishes, it seems Wakanda has pretty much never faced a single major war against an outside power in its entire history. It’s people, leaders, weapons, and ideas on waging war have never been tested on a large scale. Even the battle in Infinity War was just a melee involving a few thousand people and lasted about an hour. Objectively speaking, there have been real-life riots larger and more destructive than that “battle”.The US, on the other hand…List of wars involving the United StatesWhile some people may gripe about the win rate of the United States, bringing up Vietnam and the War on Terror, those are terrible arguments. Firstly, the nature of these wars is entirely different. These are guerilla wars fought in vast expanses of rough terrain. Fighting Wakanda is mostly a conventional war over one city. Yes, I know cities are a nightmare to fight over, but as said before attrition favors the US by several orders of magnitude, and there aren’t hundreds of thousands of square miles to worry about.Secondly, they ignore political considerations that make these wars “unwinnable” and thus not really a point against the US’s win record. The United States didn’t pull out of Vietnam because of some horrible military disaster that no amount of technology or manpower could ever fix. We pulled out of Vietnam because of the antiwar movement and because the war could only ever be won by invading North Vietnam, which wouldn’t happen because it could have brought China and USSR into direct conflict with us. In the War on Terror, the US military needs to exercise extreme caution and care due to fear of civilian casualties since terrorists blend into the population. We also have to consider that terrorism is an idea, not a country, and terrorists are transnational networks of extremists who can flee across borders where the US is not legally allowed to strike at them. Wakanda is a country with a fixed location, and this is a conventional war, something which the US has traditionally always succeeded in.One last thing is that regardless of how you think the US is doing in current or past wars, the important thing is that we’ve fought them. We can argue about this or that war, but the fact is that the US has the most experienced military in the world, with everyone from the politicians and generals to privates having seen action. While of course not every soldier gets deployed or every commander get a commission in a combat zone, as an institution the US knows what war is like while the Wakanda doesn’t. Even if you think the US is terrible at wars, at the very least failures are things you can learn from, whereas the Wakandans have no frame of reference whatsoever.Horrible Tactics:Nobody ever claimed the Wakandans had better tactics, only better technology. Unfortunately, without the knowledge and experience to use it properly you’ll fail. Let’s take the performance of their leader during the Battle of Wakanda as an example:You are fighting a defensive operation on a hill. Your forces are equipped with spears that fire lasers, in tight formation behind a wall of energy shields held by the front ranks. The enemy is a far larger force of superstrong monsters, but they have no weapons and are mindlessly charging in a dense, unorganized mob. In addition, a huge energy field surrounding your whole position is killing the monsters as they try to come through, though a few slip inside. As your troops manage to hold them off at a distance you notice a few dozen of the creatures (out of thousands upon thousands) going around your flank, though still on the other side of your energy shield. What do you do?A. Redirect a small portion of your force to match the diversion.B. Redirect a larger portion of your forces to overwhelm and destroy the diversion.C. Carefully but quickly withdraw so your enemy can’t get behind you.D. Reorient your battle line so both threats are on the same side. (i.e. if someone is in front of you and another to your side, turning 45 degrees means you can see both of them in “front”).E. Shut down your shield, break formation, and charge down from the high ground so that your outnumbered human soldiers with ranged weapons can engage the swarm of superstrong monsters in hand-to-hand combat.If you picked E, you are not only the leader of the world’s most technologically advanced nation, but also a colossal moron.I respect Black Panther as a superhero, but as a general, he made literally one of the worst tactical decisions I’ve ever seen made by a military commander, either real life or fictional. Throwing away all of his advantages and playing to all of his enemy’s strengths is…I almost have to call it a work of anti-genius.In fact, he’s so bad of a commander here’s a writing exercise I want everyone to try: if you wrote Black Panther as being secretly on Thanos’ side and actively trying to lose, what more would you do than what he already did? His mission was to protect Vision, and his tactics involved tying up the entirety of his military in a pointless, risky battle in the open field far away, leaving his own family to be almost killed when enemy spec-ops effortlessly infiltrate their position. It really is that bad.With that kind of leadership, all arguments become invalid. Any potential tech advantage the Wakandans have would be immediately squandered by their commander. We all saw it onscreen for ourselves.You asked about the US but you know what could defeat Wakanda?A single artillery battery.No, not even that. A single Soviet rocket truck could conquer all of Wakanda. They’d line up in their Greek-style shield wall and Stalin’s Organ would just play away, destroying all of Wakanda’s 2,000 soldiers with just a few dozen rockets.In fact, you know who could conquer Wakanda? Pretty much any real-life African country.Rocket launchers, or spears? You decide.Fun fact: the world record for a javelin throw is about 105 meters. The JAVELIN anti-tank missile, for contrast, can take out targets at 4,750 meters.