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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: US Military Is Preparing for the War It Wishes to Fight — Not for the War Russia Is Actually Going to Deliver The US is going for a Hi-Tech fantasy land, the Russians and the Chinese are much more common sense, and spending 10 times less in the process. "We’re preparing to fight a war of neat columns of data, sophisticated user interfaces, systems of systems, and cross-domain synergistic spreadsheets" Navy Matters (Checkpoint Asia) Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. Reader-supported, please donate! They have a great Facebook page, with very good memes. There’s an old saying that Generals are always preparing to fight the last war. Well, there’s a related and previously unknown phenomenon developing within the US military which is that the Generals are preparing to fight the wrong next war. To give some credit where credit is due, the US military is devoting a fair amount of effort to preparing to fight the next war. The problem is that the next war that our military envisions is one entirely of their own creation rather than one defined by consideration of the enemy’s capabilities and intent. We’re not preparing to fight the war that China and Russia are going to deliver; we’re preparing to fight the war that we want to see: a war of high technology, with lots of cross-domain buzzwords, artificial intelligence assisted joint battle command, with dispersed, small, flexible, light units creating havoc deep within enemy territory, tiny unmanned vehicles roving the air, land, and sea and applying nearly magical capabilities, all supported by an exquisite, ephemeral network providing perfect situational awareness. What kind of war are the Russians and Chinese preparing to deliver? They’re building heavier and heavier armored units with more, bigger, and far more lethal conventional explosives delivered by massed artillery and ballistic missiles. The Chinese are building for a war of attrition and are on a quick path to outnumbering us in every category of military capability. The Russians are telling us exactly what kind of war they’ll deliver with their semi-proxy invasion of Ukraine. It’s a war of unimaginable destruction delivered by artillery supported by electronic warfare and UAVs, all backed by heavy armored units. Entire mechanized units are wiped out in seconds. Our enemies are preparing to employ lethal battlefield unmanned vehicles without a care for unintended casualties. In short, our enemies are preparing to deliver a war with massive firepower, heavy armored units, widespread and effective electronic warfare, and Terminator style unmanned killing machines. Now look at the kind of war games we’re conducting. We’re preparing to conduct the first multi-domain command and control exercise, Cross Domain One. The Air Force will lead the first experiment of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capabilities in two weeks, tying fighter jets to Army ground systems and Navy ships in a real-world example of Multi-Domain Operations. Preston Dunlap, Air Force chief architect for acquisition, told Breaking D that the exercise in Florida will “be powered by” the service’s nascent Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). (1) We’re preparing to fight a war of neat columns of data, sophisticated user interfaces, systems of systems, and cross-domain synergistic spreadsheets all backed up by dispersed light infantry and distributed logistics ships with a few anti-ship missiles. Our idea of heavy firepower is the 30 mm machine gun that we’ve so proudly stuck on the Strykers and dubbed ‘Dragoon’. The Russians in their heavily armored, T-90 or T-14 Armata tanks with 125 mm guns must be quaking in their boots over the prospect of facing unarmored Strykers with machine guns for main weapons.US Military Is Preparing for the War It Wishes to Fight — Not for the War Russia Is Actually Going to Deliver The US is going for a Hi-Tech fantasy land, the Russians and the Chinese are much more common sense, and spending 10 times less in the process. Checkpoint Asia is an excellent new site which scours the media for the best Asia news with a geopolitical focus, plus 1st-class original journalism ranging from Russia to China to the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and free of globalist baloney. Reader-supported, please donate! They have a great Facebook page, with very good memes. There’s an old saying that Generals are always preparing to fight the last war. Well, there’s a related and previously unknown phenomenon developing within the US military which is that the Generals are preparing to fight the wrong next war. Russian drone-guided artillery did indeed prove devastating in Donbass, 2014 Russian drone-guided artillery did indeed prove devastating in Donbass, 2014 Support Russia Insider - Go Ad-Free! To give some credit where credit is due, the US military is devoting a fair amount of effort to preparing to fight the next war. The problem is that the next war that our military envisions is one entirely of their own creation rather than one defined by consideration of the enemy’s capabilities and intent. We’re not preparing to fight the war that China and Russia are going to deliver; we’re preparing to fight the war that we want to see: a war of high technology, with lots of cross-domain buzzwords, artificial intelligence assisted joint battle command, with dispersed, small, flexible, light units creating havoc deep within enemy territory, tiny unmanned vehicles roving the air, land, and sea and applying nearly magical capabilities, all supported by an exquisite, ephemeral network providing perfect situational awareness. Support Russia Insider - Go Ad-Free! What kind of war are the Russians and Chinese preparing to deliver? They’re building heavier and heavier armored units with more, bigger, and far more lethal conventional explosives delivered by massed artillery and ballistic missiles. The Chinese are building for a war of attrition and are on a quick path to outnumbering us in every category of military capability. The Russians are telling us exactly what kind of war they’ll deliver with their semi-proxy invasion of Ukraine. It’s a war of unimaginable destruction delivered by artillery supported by electronic warfare and UAVs, all backed by heavy armored units. Entire mechanized units are wiped out in seconds. Our enemies are preparing to employ lethal battlefield unmanned vehicles without a care for unintended casualties. In short, our enemies are preparing to deliver a war with massive firepower, heavy armored units, widespread and effective electronic warfare, and Terminator style unmanned killing machines. Now look at the kind of war games we’re conducting. We’re preparing to conduct the first multi-domain command and control exercise, Cross Domain One. The Air Force will lead the first experiment of Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capabilities in two weeks, tying fighter jets to Army ground systems and Navy ships in a real-world example of Multi-Domain Operations. Preston Dunlap, Air Force chief architect for acquisition, told Breaking D that the exercise in Florida will “be powered by” the service’s nascent Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). (1) We’re preparing to fight a war of neat columns of data, sophisticated user interfaces, systems of systems, and cross-domain synergistic spreadsheets all backed up by dispersed light infantry and distributed logistics ships with a few anti-ship missiles. Our idea of heavy firepower is the 30 mm machine gun that we’ve so proudly stuck on the Strykers and dubbed ‘Dragoon’. The Russians in their heavily armored, T-90 or T-14 Armata tanks with 125 mm guns must be quaking in their boots over the prospect of facing unarmored Strykers with machine guns for main weapons. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Ada (#0)
The USA is required to project power which requires big and expensive Naval task forces and bases anywhere and everywhere it can. The US has to do this to maintain its economic dominance over the glob, as if it fails to do so, the US dollar loses reserve currency status and support for it's massive trade and budget deficits, and upon losing that, the dollar and the US collapses. Russia used to have to do that, but the USSR collapse relieved it of that obligation. It's new mandate is to protect itself from the massive US budgeted military and the most economical (capitalistic) way to do that is missiles of all types. Make them good and make them cheap, and make them by the crapload. One single underwater nuke drone/torpedo of a couple million dollar cost could conceivably take out a trillion dollar US naval carrier task force. Ditto for anti-aircraft missiles. A very good deal in warfare costs. The US is dogged by a self-interested military industrial complex and constituent driven congress, both allowing money -- and not the realities of modern war -- dictate military preparedness. But a second serious element dogging US military preparedness is the state of mind of the younger military recruits -- millennials -- who have no sense of responsibility to country, and for whom service against America's foes is just a job. Recall the 2 boats that drifted into Iranian waters a few years ago. Captured, the crews cooperated all to readily giving away passwords to their computers. And then there's the case some 20 years ago of that air collision between a US spyplane and a Chinese interceptor off the coast of China. Instead of ditching the top secret aircraft in the ocean which should have been generally survivable for the crew, the pilot made the cowardly decision to land it at a chinese military air base -- because that was safer? No, being a top secret spyplane pilot isn't something that pilot did for flag and country. He was doing it for his paycheck. And how did the US public respond? That was most telling as well. Was pilot condemned and court martialed for landing a top secret spyplane at a communist Chinese air base? No, he instead got a hero's welcome by the US public for the oh so terrible ordeal he had been through, and the US military was effectively barred by US public sentiment from taking any punitive action as most certainly should have been taken. I think this inferior mentality dominates the current US military, excepted only by the rank and file marines that have been hardened by the needless occupation wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. So there you have it: The US military is populated by personnel who do not take war seriously, and the public reinforces that sentiment. The next war that breaks out against a force like Russia will be a rude awakening for the USA.
#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)
Great post. Thanx.
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