Photo credit: Sgt. Richard Wrigley, U.S. Army
Lee Quintas, War On The Rocks: The Future Is Now. Is the Army Ready?
The year is 2025.
With his Iron Lion Brigade, Maj. Gen. Lukas Grigas watched news reports of a growing “Russian separatist movement” in the eastern districts of his home country. Just days into the weeks-old unrest, “little green men” had appeared, aiding the separatists in seizing key facilities in the region. These were clearly Russian Spetsnaz, but Moscow’s multimedia propaganda machine denied Russian involvement and obscured the world’s understanding of events. Russian cyber-attacks against websites, power stations, and water facilities had proved especially effective in forcing local government leaders to focus on providing basic services, rather than addressing the growing security threat from the east. The Russians had effectively confused NATO allies about the situation, stifled the government and media response, and thrown the country into general disorder. Gen. Grigas, doubtful that local district governors could resolve the situation, intently reviewed his brigade’s readiness status in preparation for operations.
WNU Editor: This article is serving as a warning .... but with cuts in the U.S. Army all but a "fait-accompli" right now, it is a warning that current leaders are not focused on.
Update: Apparently the U.S. is not even ready for today's wars .... America’s Not Ready for Today’s Gray Wars (Eric Olsen, Defense One)
2 comments:
The Russians are overrated, do not believe for a second that the US military is weaker than the Russian military. The Russians are overhyped and recent history shows they really have not done all that well.
This is useless fear-mongering prior to an election. If the United States military is not ready to fight an enemy that has a horrible logistical tail and few numbers of highly advanced weapons that have been unproven in combat, then we need to fire the entire senior leadership of the Pentagon from the last 20 years, court martial senior military leaders for ignoring the lapsed capabilities, and indict the CEOs of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, united defense, and all of the other senior members of the military industrial complex for bilking the American taxpayers out of trillions of dollars.
Period.
If you look at the last 65 years, ever since the release of NSC-68, the leaders of the military industrial complex always find way to drum up support for increased military spending. First it was 1954, then 1959, then the year of critical vulnerability kept being pushed back so that if we acted quickly and decisively and increased spending, we would be ready.
How has that worked out for us?
I am very much an advocate for a strong foreign policy, but these BS pronouncements have got to stop...
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