David Barno and Nora Bensahel, War Is Boring: War in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Retiring Chinese general He Lei recently made news by suggesting that China’s greatest military weakness compared to the United States was that it has never fought a real war. He noted none of Beijing’s increasingly advanced weapons, jets, and ships have been tested in combat. Moreover, the large People’s Liberation Army continues to rely upon conscripts rather than the long-serving professionals in the U.S. military. He argued the Chinese military “will be ridden with doubts until they get into a real fight.”
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WNU Editor: Bottom line .... wars in the future will be different than how we fight wars today. This is a good summary on what is coming down the "pipeline".
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One thing i will say is that the American Generals they are talking about are nothing more than accountants. You can see first hand how the US armed forces is more about bookkeeping and maintaining good public relations then actually winning a fight. We just need to look at war after war that the US has failed to win, fact remains that any future war would see gamers and not military commanders dictating the war. You just don't understand the capabilities of a tank, of a jet, of a boat unless you have used them all in simulations. What is worse is many american branded games refuse to infuse realism. I doubt in a future war you will see many Americans running around with light machine guns, they will have this false sense of bad accuracy and low damage.
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