Defense News: US military readies to ‘walk and chew gum’ as multiple crises loom
WASHINGTON — As roughly 100,000 Russian troops amass around Ukraine, a series of emerging crises around the world — the Middle East, China, North Korea — are demanding the full attention of NATO, and particularly its most powerful member, the United States.
Now, there’s a growing sense among national security experts that the crisis in Ukraine is just one of many conflicts on the precipice, putting pressure on the alliance and its member countries to address this threat and at the same time brace for the next one.
Indeed, China this week flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan. And consider the United Arab Emirates reported this week it had intercepted multiple ballistic missiles aimed at Abu Dhabi.
Julianne Smith, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, described the ongoing dispute between Russia and Ukraine as a “microcosm” of the types of threats Western analysts were expecting all along. “All of this is becoming very real,” she said this week at a panel in Brussels sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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WNU Editor: I am sure the US military is ready. The question that should be asked is America's political leaders and it's allies are ready to work together to handle these multiple crisis.
I'm not sure our mil is ready, what with all the wear and tear the "war on terrorism" has added to almost all our systems over the last 20 years, coupled with a degradation of maintenance, spare parts, upgrades, etc. The prudent course would be to rely as much as possible on diplomatic means to avoid as many hot conflicts as possible until we can get our procurement/maintenance/ upgrade channels cleaned up.
ReplyDeleteI agree with anonymous above.
ReplyDeleteNo, theyy are not ready. Speaking to several enlisted in a variety of units, they are not ready. Many are upset with all the woke crap that takes up allot of time. Those who can leave are leaving.
Concur with the comments that the US Military isn’t as ready as most think.
ReplyDeleteDeployment procedures, the movement to ports etc, and overseas mil ops go well because of motivation, not equipment. Across the board the morale of conventional units is pretty poor. To many deployments, to much politics, to many leaders promoted on woke policies instead of leadership. Unit cohesion is poor, hence increased suicide, crime, and drug use in the ranks. Not a recipe for success.
I think the latest Rand report was surprisingly positive.
ReplyDeleteA bigger question is the homefront ready? A war Russia and China WILL be felt here back home. Cyber attacks will shut down everything. Bank accounts will disappear. No cash. No gas. No food. Big cities would be non-functional w/in a week. I would expect spec forces already here attacking vital infrastructure with drone bombs, etc. Yeah, the homefront isn't ready for this and we have a fractured and ineffective national security apparatus led by a dementia patient. Yeah, this won't end well.
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