US deputy defense secretary Robert Work said warfare styles displayed particularly by Russia in Ukraine is a threat to ‘the American way of war that we have grown accustomed to’.
The Guardian: US military tactics falling behind those of adversaries, Pentagon official warns
* Robert Work: ‘Our technological superiority is slipping. We see it every day’
* Deputy defense secretary wants to bring US military into ‘post-insurgency era’
A “proliferation of precision” weapons and the spread of styles of warfare displayed by Russia in Ukraine risks ending “the American way of war that we have grown accustomed to over the last three decades”, the Pentagon’s No 2 official warned on Wednesday.
In a speech likely to be hotly debated in defense circles, US deputy defense secretary Robert Work outlined a vision of ground warfare for what might be called a post-insurgency era, one in which US adversaries cycle between using subterfuge tactics and high-tech precision artillery – “conventional weapons with near-zero miss”, in his warning – to potentially overmatch the US military.
“I tell you now, our technological superiority is slipping. We see it every day,” Work told the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
WNU Editor: The technological superiority that the U.S. once had can now be bought (on the cheap) by many of our adversaries .... and these same adversaries are learning quickly on how to use this tech to their advantage.
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