Association Of The United States Army: Concerns Reemerge About Limited Nuclear War
The Army is in the midst of a reorientation—planning and preparing for conflict with peer and near-peer adversaries, as directed by the 2018 National Military Strategy. This reorientation will involve changes big and small, with the Army embracing both new technologies and concepts—such as unmanned systems and Multi-Domain Operations—and dusting off and updating old ones—such as camouflage and electronic warfare.
But one thing is strikingly absent: Army leaders are not giving sufficient consideration to the threat of nuclear weapons.
For nearly two decades, the U.S. military has been focused on combat against non-nuclear nation-states in which post-conflict counterinsurgency operations took significantly more time and resources than planned. As a result of these engagements, U.S. military readiness for conventional operations against a near-peer state has measurably degraded. A 2016 RAND Corp. report suggested Russia could overrun the Baltics before NATO could respond, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested he would resort to limited nuclear weapons use to stop NATO offensives.
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WNU Editor: Frankly speaking .... no one can ever be properly prepared for any nuclear exchange.
I wonder what it's like sitting in that mobile rocket truck and launching one of these rockets.. they seem to be still sitting in that truck at that point, right? Even with the blast shields and sound protection, it must be one shaky, hair-raising event
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ReplyDeleteReally, the army is not prepared to fight a limited nuclear war. Nuclear war, or perhaps banana bread. Once it becomes nuclear war....it's pretty much all in!!
ReplyDeleteGood we can go straight from conventional to full scale global nuclear wear and skip the intermediate step.
ReplyDeleteNot being prepared for nuclear exchange? What a big mistake! With 1.4 billion people, China is ready for anything because there is always enough remaining people for restart China.
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