have you ever thought of us competing with kaminoans when it comes to creating clones and such.
It would not be a competition, in the mandalorian, a scientist was publishing a scientific paper about doing what the etherials do for fun, hybrid cloning.
The only competition would be in numbers, and our clones reach maturity in 2 months, while theirs take years of accelerated aging (don't know the exact number)
Basically we outclass them in everything that matters, and we just need to build more cloning facilities to reach Kaminoan numbers. so it would hardly be a competition, even if we just have a tenth of their facilities, in the time they take to make a legion we would have made 10 times their numbers, and due Psychic tech, all our hybrids are combat ready just outside the cloning vats.
If you want competition, you should look more into quality maybe, of the comando forces, which we lack and is in fact what defeats ADVENT and the elders.
And right now i've figured a weaknes of us. WE NEED XCOM COMANDO SQUADS (I mean teams of 4-6 people who kills entire armies, i swear i completed XCOM 1 and 2 with a single squad, with maybe a temporary member or 2)