OUTNUMBERED, OUTRANGED, AND OUTGUNNED: HOW RUSSIA DEFEATS NATO

War on the Rocks ^ | April 21, 2016 | David A. Shlapak, Michael W. Johnson

[4FreeSpeach]

When asked two weeks ago in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee whether the Army was “outranged” by any adversary, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley said: “Yes … the ones in Europe, really Russia. We don’t like it, we don’t want it, but yes, technically [we are] outranged, outgunned on the ground.”

Given Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, this is sobering testimony. But is it accurate? Unfortunately, yes: Nearly two years of extensive wargaming and analysis shows that if Russia were to conduct a short-warning attack against the Baltic States, Moscow’s forces could roll to the outskirts of the Estonian capital of Tallinn and the Latvian capital of Riga in 36 to 60 hours. In such a scenario, the United States and its allies would not only be outranged and outgunned, but also outnumbered.

[T-Bone Texan]

However, the perfumed princes who lead our troops are now very vocal about our limitations, defects, and handicaps.

They just love to discuss how weak we are and how awesome our enemies are.

There once was a time when that would constitute treason.

[JimRed]

Why would they want to? To take control of another less-than-self-sufficient population?

[batterycommander]

I would point out a Reuters story today
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-sends-f-22-fighters-to-reassure-nato-allies-facing-russia/ar-BBsdZuq?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCDHP
in which F-22’s were deployed to NATO countries near the Black Sea today.

[DoodleDawg]

There were a bunch of people over the weekend cheering the idea of Putin rolling into Constantinople - Link. Why should they care if he rolls into Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia at the same time?

[Iron head mike]

Dangerous times myFRiend.thanks for the link