Posted on 08/17/2015 4:41:39 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Over the past two years, the belligerence between Russia and NATO has grown to alarming levels. Between the Western backed color revolution in Ukraine, Russian aircraft violating NATO airspace, sanctions, and the provocative training exercises that both sides have been conducted on a routine basis, it’s abundantly clear that these nations are seriously considering the possibility of war. But if such a war comes to pass, will the US Military be up to the task of fighting the Russians?
The Pentagon doesn’t seem to think so. Earlier this week, two officials from the Department of Defense approached The Daily Beast, and revealed the troubling results of several recent military wargames. 15 years of fighting terrorists and insurgents has left our military ill-equipped to sustain a prolonged conflict with Russia. Chief among their concerns, was the short supply of precision guided missiles available to NATO, and that “Russia’s blend of special forces, local proxies, weaponized propaganda, cyber espionage, and sneak attacks has many in the U.S. military struggling to figure out how to respond.”
However, the Pentagon’s dire assessment may be less of a warning, and more of a desperate plea to stop cutting their budget, which is what White House insider Lawrence Cobb believes. He noted that we spend ten times as much money on our military as the Russians spend on theirs, and that “We’d clean their clocks. Russian troops are not that good. They are not as modern.” While I doubt a war with Russia would go so smoothly, the military-industrial complex would probably do anything to keep the tax dollars flowing.
I actually don’t think they have a defense plan. I think they see the military as a big expense from whose budget they can take funding and buy more votes for Democrats.
The arrogance they have in their overestimation of their ability to control other countries is astounding. Couple that with their heretofore “wing it - lead from behind” policy and you have a big paper tiger. Even with whatever kill power we still have, Obama and these ghouls will not use it.
Short of a nuclear war, Russia is not well positioned for a large conventional war. And they would be badly bloodied.
We aren’t going to invade Russia, and that is the only scenario that they are really capable of pulling off.
If they moved into the Baltics and Poland, they would have a real fight. Poland would, by itself, put up a hell of a fight and, forgetting about NATO for a second, I don’t see the Czechs, Slovakians, Hungarians, Romanians, or Bulgarians standing by to be the next target.
Although Russia would roll through the Baltics in a surprise attack, we would no longer have a tacit agreement to not arm the resistance. There would be a serious war of resistance, and the Russians could not leave those areas lightly defended.
Finland and Sweden would likely immediately join NATO, and that Finnish border would suck off a lot of Russian capability.
Russian tanks have never faired well against Western tanks. They would take tremendous losses, and I’m not sure that the Russian conscripts would have much of a stomach for moving forward.
Russian commerce on the high seas would be totally at the mercy of the USN. Russia’s attack submarine fleet is a shadow of the USSRs, with only 9 SSGNs and 19 SSNs, many of which are not currently sea worthy. Tho affect the movement of U.S. heavy armor to Europe, these submarines would have to run the UK-Iceland-Greenland Gap against 70+ American, French, and British SSNs.
U.S. CVNs would prevent any
All American and Canadian light units and personnel could be moved by air using civil assets, inside of two days (although, logistics considerations would obviously not allow that level. However, those same civil air assets could be used to supply the forces in place with their own weight in bullets and beans, every single day.
NATO attack aircraft coming out of Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey, in combination wih naval units moving into the Black Sea, would quickly desimate the Russian Black Sea Fleet and provide close air support for a Ukrainian put on the Crimea, forcing the Russians to commit or retreat there.
Long story short, the threat from a Russian conventional attack is the West’s will to fight, not their capacity to do so.
But fighting a conventional war with Russia isn’t what’s being described here.
It’s fighting the asymetic war Russia would prefer to wage thats going to be an issue.
“Putin has less disdain for America”
I’ve noticed that too. Leave him alone to take care of his backyard and he’s content with that and most likely would leave us alone to also do what’s needed in our hemisphere, if we could muster up the gonads to do so. Totally different from Soviet leaders of the past who simply wanted to take us out.
Hardly surprising since the American people decided to elect ‘60’s hippies to make decisions for them.
Russia has its own vulnerabilities to asymmetric war.
Liberals equate the amount of money spent on anything with the quality of it. They do the same thing with schools.
I would agree with that with the proviso that their primary consideration is how many votes/dollar it will translate to.
This was a great idea and a great time to lard up the ranks with perverts. How about taking a shower with a queer who looks upon you as a sex object?
It doesn’t matter now.
We haven’t won a war since the Spanish-American War and we didn’t win a hell of a lot then.
“We’d clean their clocks. Russian troops are not that good. They are not as modern.”
-- Adolf Hitler 1941
Oh, you must be referring to bill chinagate rapist clinton and his delusional pumpin pig wife hilary.
Pentagon Warns US Military Is Not Prepared to Fight Russia
"Which was the intent all along..."
Only took three post. Not bad.
5.56mm
Whose plan?
Ayers, Jarrett, Soros.
Exactly right!
the good part is that Russia is not able to fight any body
Who knew?
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