The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz steams ahead of the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton during Malabar 2020 exercises in the north Arabian Sea, November 17, 2020. (Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Elliot Schaudt/IUS Navy)
Seth Cropsey, National Review: Is the U.S. Military Actually Ready for a War?
There are some worrying indicators within the military bureaucracy about our readiness. They should be fixed immediately.
The U.S. faces both the immediacy of great-power competition and the prospect of great-power war. Both of these require a military that is wholly prepared for combat. This preparation includes all the standard aspects of military power — personnel, matériel, and training. But most important and least measurable is intellectual readiness. There is no sign that the armed services, or the defense establishment more broadly, are intellectually prepared for a Sino–American clash.
A military organization’s first peacetime task is preparing for combat. Americans could be forgiven for forgetting this fact, given the state of our contemporary political debate, some of which has drawn the military into the political fray. This political tension combines with recent American combat experience to further conceal the military’s true purpose.
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WNU Editor: After what happened in Afghanistan in 2021 followed by no changes at the Pentagon. I would say no. The U.S. military is not ready to fight a major war.
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WNU Editor: After what happened in Afghanistan in 2021 followed by no changes at the Pentagon. I would say no. The U.S. military is not ready to fight a major war.
- The only country ready for war, is the one preparing to wage war.
US wasn't ready for war in WW2, but it came regardless; even after Pearl Harbor, the US was not ready. Within a short period, the US completely devoted its economy to making war and bringing war to its enemies.
Same can be said for others.
Afghanistan technically was a war, but in reality it wasn't. And what happened in 2021 during the withdrawal was an utter disaster, but in no way should it be made as an analysis for what the US is capable of in a full blown war scenario between two or more major nation states. Any such comparisons are amateurish at best.
So push comes to shove, the US is not ready because the US does not want to involve itself in a major war. But should that happen, then all cards are on the table and the US may surprise its detractors.
1:03 makes a good argument.
I'll add this. The Afghan fiasco was more the result of unlearned and poll following poly sci majors and JDs.
And this. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, FDR ( think) ordered the review of all flag officers. They reordered the bench, changed up the roster, and cashiered some flag officer (other than the 2 in Hawaii) form the start. They change the pool of flag officers without sending them to Siberia or an oven like Stalin did. Yeah, Stalin had oven like Hitler. Except he had time to burn the records and dismantle the the incriminating camps.
I am ready. send me in.
Get real. The USA of 1945 is nothing like the USA of 2022. The USA of 2022 is undisciplined, mentally ill, drug addicted, and filled with people believing they are victims and filled with self pity. The USA of 2022 says that whites (and only whites) are racist and must step aside to do justice to the blacks who have been held down by racism. The USA of 2022 is filled with sexual perverts who are indoctrinating children into accepting sexual perversion. The US military is led by woke liberal idiots who do not know how to lead in battle but who can lead pushing a pencil that targets white conservatives in its ranks. In other words, the USA is toast in the next war of any consequence.
NO!
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