James A Warren, Daily Beast: The U.S. Army’s Worst Tradition: Never Ready for the Next War
While the U.S. Army was bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, China and Russia were dexterously outflanking American military capabilities.
Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. Army has been consistently ranked as the most capable land force on the globe by defense analysts of all stripes. So why are so many people in the American military community today worried about the Army’s ability to deter conflicts with likely adversaries or prevail against those adversaries in future wars?
The short answer is that warfare, always a mysterious amalgam of art, science, and guts, has become an increasingly complicated and unpredictable enterprise. America’s leading potential adversaries, China and Russia, have shown no small measure of imagination and dexterity in identifying the U.S. armed forces’ vulnerabilities, and exploiting them through the development of subtle yet aggressive geopolitical strategies, and increasingly lethal armed forces.
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WNU Editor: Truth be told .... no army in the world has ever been ready for the next war.
Actually, with the US Army's After Action Reports, it hasn't established itself as a very potent force for years to come. Russia is gaining experience in Syria but China is not gaining any experience other than what they can learn from others. I'm not worried.
ReplyDeleteLand armies are outdated, have been since WW2 where air superiority was king. Again in Korea and Vietnam where small well equip forces could fight off forces 10 time their size.
ReplyDeleteIn the face of China and Russia, you are dealing with countries deeply involved with missile tech, you would never amass troops in meaningful numbers without getting bombarded by artillery, missiles, airpower and much more.
Guns are a joke, these mass killings prove this, your lucky to get 20-50 kills on unarmed civilians before your taken down. Let alone armed ones, you are better to hide in your bunker and unleashing hell all around you.
Think of the Vietcong, hiding in their tunnels. But they are also the ones dropping napalm.
Experience, what experience, killing armed thugs in utes with drones and multi million dollar weapons and munitions costing hundreds of thousands each. US doesn't know how to fight a conventional war anymore then China, where the experience comes is causing unrest within a population and arming locals to overthrow governments.
War of the 21st century is not fought with guns. Its fought online with proper-gander and advertising. We are in a period of MASS leaflet drops.