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Kite and Key: Will America Lose Its Next War?
Eighty years ago, America rapidly mobilized to simultaneously defeat both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. But could we do it again today?
Many experts worry that America’s military readiness is slipping. And recent surveys find that our men and women in uniform doubt our ability to immediately deploy, fight, and win anywhere in the world.
That’s especially worrying given reports that China wants its military prepared to invade Taiwan by 2027.
In several wargame simulations of the conflict, America lost. In the more optimistic ones … we fought to a stalemate.
How did we get here?
First, there’s the matter of our military hardware. The Navy, for instance, is so backlogged on maintaining its fleet that it’s the equivalent of 15 ships being out of service each year.
Then there’s the question of manpower. The Army, Air Force, and Navy are all falling short of recruitment goals.
And that’s all before we get to the fact that even the Pentagon admits that China has surpassed the U.S. on several important measures of military strength.
Where does that leave us?
Vulnerable.
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This was one of those occasions where I hit the “like” button, wishing there was one which was labeled more like “frightened” or “angry” or, the mildest of all, “disgusted.” We’ve been seeing this kind of information for quite some time now and yet, in spite of all the dangerous indicators, we have a “leader” who just gave 10 BILLION Dollars to the principal fomentor of terrorism in the entire world. Pure evil, as if sheer incompetence were not enough.
Ah I referenced this in my thread
https://ricochet.com/1513611/america-is-going-to-lose-its-coming-war-with-china/#comment-6981244
Totally agree
US Navy hires active-duty drag queen to be face of recruitment drive
I can’t imagine what the problem might be.
China doesn’t want or need a shooting war, they have all kinds of levers to defeat the United States and they are using all of them.
China could blow up one of our aircraft carriers in the South China Sea with minimal risk of consequences because we fear them. But they don’t have to. Sun Tzu would be proud at how they have already defeated us.
U.S. Forces Ordered to Stop Using Gender Pronouns to Improve ‘Lethality’
You want to improve lethality? Find the gender nonspecific mope who wrote that and put him/her/it in charge of weather balloons above the Arctic Circle.
Surprisingly downbeat for Kite and Key. All the more reason to take it seriously.
I’d like to see the research to back that up. Follow the science.
We are in a pickle. They fooled people first with the lie/deception about how we spend more $ for defense than the next (#) countries. We can’t accurately know how to compare money spent, especially how much China and Russia spend. How much we spend is a faulty comparison. Do you want to compare over military wages with a conscript in China or Russia? How much they pay their factory workers compared to what a us shipyard pays ours?
No, you look realistically at the National Strategy then decide what forces you need to do the job. Are the other western countries finding enough military forces to defend themselves without one help?
Then they turned the military industrial complex into a boogie man. You can’t increase or replace military assets without a healthy military industrial complex. Those defense contractors don’t stay healthy unless they can sell weapons continuously to pay their skilled employees. Fielding our needs isn’t enough.