I see 100X more downside than upside in trying to fight a Stalingrad or Leningrad today. We are long past throwing 100,000 KIA at a Berlin like the Soviets. It’s long past 1945. I can see a small elite force going in to grab or kill high value targets, but beyond that, it’ll be drones, or it’ll be cutting off the power. You don’t need a 1945 style land force to cut off electricity. You might even accomplish it deniably / false flagged from another continent.
“I see 100X more downside than upside in trying to fight a Stalingrad or Leningrad today. We are long past throwing 100,000 KIA at a Berlin like the Soviets.”
“I can see a small elite force going in to grab or kill high value targets...”
We will have to trust that the adversary doesn’t present the necessity for a response between those two extremes, neither of which seem to be what the article is driving at.