Interesting that you seem to recognize the differences. My brother once flew for SAC, back in the day. I stayed with him and his family at his base once, for my summer vacation. Half a dozen B-52’s were on ready alert, loaded with atomic weapons. Ground crews manned the planes 24/7. Flight crews lived a week at a time in the “ready shack” next to the runways. Asked how long it would take to get planes launched, if the order came, his response was “very quickly”. I pressed him, but he wouldn’t give any details. I started naming minute counts (“30…. 20…. 15….”) and he’d shake his head. When I got to 10 he winked, and said not to ask any more because I was getting close.
But this was a highly specific mission plan, totally unambiguous and repeatedly rehearsed – jump in your airplane, fly to some destination to be given you after you are airborne, and drop nuclear weapons. Then think about whether trying to return home is worth the effort. Nothing at all like launching a strike force into some unknown ground combat situation. You can’t pre-plan a generalized loadout for something like this. Urban environment or flooded jungle? Search and destroy or rescue? Friendly or unfriendly general environment? Weaponry, transportation, optics and visualization gear, communications, even clothing, will differ. So too will personnel assignments and roles.
Yes I am sure that you could call many modern air services and get some kind of airplane into flight rather quickly – even in the 30 minutes you claim, at least some of the time in some places. Like here in the USA. But worldwide? And what kind of plane? Small or large, passenger or cargo, fixed wing or rotating, equipped for landing on pavement, dirt, water, snow? And this is an aircraft and flight crew. Nobody else, no other personnel, and no equipment. Certainly no mission-specific equipment. And here it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about military hardware or a civilian rush job, maybe ground penetrating radar for an oil wildcatter, or climbing gear for an alpine rescue team. The shit just isn’t on or nearby the plane. It has to be (1) identified, (2) located, (3) procured, (4) delivered, and (5) loaded.
Hell, depending on the airplane, it might have to be palletized, or sacked and strapped. It will surely have to be weighed, or weights estimated and distributed, along with personnel load, to ensure airworthiness. It isn’t like throwing suitcases in the trunk of the Dodge. Even a prepared military unit like the rapid deployment teams of varying acronyms will need to review their specific load in relation to the specific mission, pre-launch. Failure to do so raises the likelihood that some critical bit will be overlooked, and a bunch of unneeded gear will get in the way. “Hey, look! We’ve got mortars and nobody to carry them; meantime, who’s got the night vision gear? Anybody? Oh shit.” As you’ve been told repeatedly, people die from this kind of poor planning.
How you can compare “I can get an airplane chartered and airborne in 30 minutes…” with a military rescue mission into a foreign sovereignty from another foreign sovereignty, crossing other foreign sovereignties, done without any reconnaissance, is ludicrous. Time to drop that stupid assertion.