F/A-18E and 18F Super Hornets are seen on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Adriatic Sea, off Split, Croatia, February 14, 2022. REUTERS/Milan Sabic
Keith Nightingale, Small Wars Journal: The US is not Ready for a Peer to Peer Fight in Europe
As we all have, I have been watching the impressive Russian ground forces arrayed to invade Ukraine from three sides.
Some comments after consultation with a good friend in the Marines: Upon due consideration, it might have been unthoughtfully wise to not place our military in harm’s way simply because it would have its clock handed to it. Our military, particularly the Army, is tailored for the 20-year war in the Sandboxes-not a Peer conflict. Of equal import is that all the doctrine, tactics and professional skills are on the Sandbox model. None of our uniforms have had any experience in fighting Peer-Peer. We went into Korea and Vietnam with a goodly amount of leaders in both officer and NCO ranks who had such experience and could both adapt and train to the threat level required. That no longer exists.
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WNU Editor: A sobering read.
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4 comments:
Looks like we're gonna find out.
No, we still are on the Obama consequences and for many years again.
No nation has experience with peer to peer combat.
No nation wants to have that experience.
The reason Ukraine is in danger isn’t because the US military lacks the needed experiences it’s because the west is weak and divided. Germany has sold out Ukraine time after time. The USA has been timid with its support of Ukraine so the Russians smelled an opportunity. Added is the fact NATO is a hollow military with the Germans essentially disarmed since the Berlin Wall fell. Obama removed the US Army’s armored forces from Europe.
Russia is what you’d expect given this.
No. The Russians and Chinese will roll through our woke army and marines like "shit throuagh a goose" to quote Patton, a real General. Not like the fake generals we have now.
As for the Air Force, they will face the same fate as the RAF in 1941 and early 1942 in Singapore, Burma, Malaya and Indonisia- shot from the sky like clay pigeons.
IE: lots of dead pilots and demolished planes and remaining pilots and ground crews fighting as infantry.
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