When you dont meet the standard, just lower the standard.
Politically — and generals are pure politics — we are afraid to lose people. You cannot win if you are afraid to lose soldiers. We might do OK as long as it’s a video game. And plenty of our soldiers could dominate on the ground. But as far as leadership goes, we are lions led by sheep. Alexander of Macedon had something to say about that.
But we have proper pronouns!
700+ billion a year and we may not be able to fight one war, much less two. Ships running into each other, planes falling out of the sky. Can’t recruit enough troops to maintain a full scale Army. And now bare bottom supplies of oil to make everything run.
Compared to Russia? We could use National Guard equipment.
China would be all air and Navy. I think our quality and maintenance is better.
Let's say we get committed to Taiwan fighting China. It is a golden opportunity for Lil' Kim to attempt a reuniting of Korea.
But to be fair the Russian military sucks. China is the only real threat and we need to measure against them going forward.
I know no one wants to hear it, but the use of drones and the ground engagement tactics in Ukraine show that our operational doctrine and the systems we use needs to change radically. IIRC General Van Ripper (USMC ret) in a war game some years ago demonstrated that Iran using drones and small boats with cruise missiles could wreak havoc on the US Navy.
I know no one wants to hear it, but the use of drones and the ground engagement tactics in Ukraine show that our operational doctrine and the systems we use needs to change radically. IIRC General Van Ripper (USMC ret) in a war game some years ago demonstrated that Iran using drones and small boats with cruise missiles could wreak havoc on the US Navy.
It’s not weak. But if you say so, let’s build it up! More funding! ;D
Globalists, wanting to keep global markets unnaturally stable, have long said that there would be no more wars. They pushed military planners and administrations into saying that there would only be light intensity conflicts in the future.
Time to build it up! Our tax dollars should be going more to our military forces than special interests anyway.
The author and Heritage are stupid.
If the US was weak, we’d already be under military attack.
We’re running out of ammo with just a proxy war in Ukraine. Good thing China doesn’t know that.
Any equipment the Army and Marines had worth a crap was abandoned in Afghanistan.
It is clear that tanks and ships need radical redesign.
You can learn a lot from lots of dead Russians.