"Yeah, fuckin' YoRHa shits."

"Don't think I approve of their military much."

"It's a real shitshow."

"...Think it kinda shows that they don't have a peer competitor - I'm guessing androids don't have multiple armies that are in a near-constant state of competition involving a mixture of war and diplomacy with each other."

"Just the machine lifeforms."

"So they're more or less a hegemonic system, against an enemy of dubious sapience, with no grand strategy beyond 'kill the enemy before they kill you' or 'run away from the enemy before they kill you.' ...Yeah that's going to lead to a major decline in strategic thinking, even before you take into account cultural effects. Also to a decline in proper espionage and diplomatic training..."

"Yeah, there's the Resistance too. More of those guys but less fancy equipment."

"How good is the working relationship there?"

"Fine, I guess? Depends on the cell commander some."

"...Do they not have military-wide coordination?"

"I was YoRHa, not Resistance. Maybe they got something I didn't hear about. But shit's scattered all over like three fuckin' continents, so."

"...Okay but like, do they not have radios? And coordinating three fronts is kinda the point of having a high command, even if the brass are otherwise useless - I think Amestris's record was five fronts, and that was before we had radio - and like, ideally a system will maintain centralized coordination or at minimum broad adherence to guidelines like 'who are our allies, who are our enemies, how and when do we engage' even if a member of high command decides she feels like killing the rest of high command, like an hour after a different revolution is going off and someone blew up the train containing the country and military's overall leader then kidnapped his wife and had her make a call to revolution over the common radio, the capital city is getting overrun by monsters, and also there's a giant hole in the sky trying to rip out everyone's souls - I definitely get the point of quasi-independent cells, you use those when you're the underdog revolutionary or if you're sending in special forces behind enemy lines, but like when operating as a state engaging in conventional warfare is not one of the use cases."

"Weirdly specific example, okay. But this isn't a conventional war? With like trenches and sieges and shit, or whatever. All the humans fucked off to the moon ages ago, s'why you shouldn't tell anyone. It's just androids down here, and we're all fighting."

"...Eh, my home military's standard doctrine is kind of literally scorched earth. The current government's better, but the one we weirdly specifically overthrew would respond to 'there are civilians here' with 'there were civilians here.' Anywhere near an active border gets evacuated of our civilians. Killing the enemy's civilians was kind of the point."

"Also we don't do sieges or trenches anymore, most cases; firepower's too high."