Posted on 09/10/2020 1:49:13 PM PDT by Mariner
General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., the new head of the U.S. Air Force, warned casualties will be heavy in a future war.
Brown believes the U.S. will face World War II-level losses against an advanced adversary like Russia or China.
The general believes his service must “accelerate change or lose” the next war.
The new U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff is warning his service it faces stiff competition in a future war, involving aircraft and personnel losses not seen for 80 years. General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. believes the Air Force must work to accelerate change, adapting to new technologies faster than its potential adversaries. Brown warns that “good enough today will fail tomorrow,” with grave implications for the entire country.
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I doubt that we’ll need to go to war with Russia anytime soon.As for China...war with them would very probably go nuclear...so there are sure to be many,many casualties.
Anyone who wants to fight Russia and/or China is a suicidal lunatic. They don’t want to fight us either, they aren’t that stupid or suicidal.
We still have technological and doctrinal superiority to the PLA and PLAN, the challenge is that in the event of war the Chinese could draft tens of millions of soldiers willing to die for China. Now that we have tossed out a melting pot for a balkanized “mixing bowl”, we could not scrape together anywhere near that many people who still cared about the US enough to die for it.
A military game circa 2030 assuming the US does nothing and China continues to build.
It’s budget nonsense.
Number of military aircraft by country, top 10:
Our Air Force is certainly not our weak link. Neither is our Navy. The only thing in the article I do agree with is that the future is in drones and unmanned aircraft. I think that the title of the article was merely for shock effect.
Dale Brown was a prophet ...
“President Biden” would surrender before the first shot is fired.
China is banking on that and will take Taiwan if Biden becomes president. Or will do so in the chaos after the elections.
Our armed forces is more than sufficient if we would stop trying to be the world police. Trump’s strategy has been to push our allies into stepping up and carrying their share of the load.
Unmanned combat aircraft are the future, but controlled by manned aircraft.
Each F-35 would have 6-10 UCAVs.
To say you are a buffoon is an insult to buffoons.
Our greatest vulnerability is our lack of in-house manufacturing capability. We have allowed ourselves to become too dependent on China and other countries for our manufacturing. Our ability to step up domestic production is what saved us in WW2.
How many of those are combat rated planes? Designated fighters, bombers and attack planes?
Fortunately, the Navy and Marine Corps are still dominant.
We’ll never see losses like WW2, because we will never be able to produce modern aircraft in the numbers comparable to WW2 numbers.
The breakdown of aircraft by type is available here:
https://www.globalfirepower.com/aircraft-total.asp
Just click on the country. The totals are a bit different than what I posted earlier, but are close.
It also depends upon if Jane Fonda decides to run another Asian battery in the next war.
Need MORE Critical Race Theory training!!!! ASAP!!!
A lot of this depends entirely on what kind of war we’re talking about. Russia or China attacking the United States would be complete and utter suicide. Russia’s long range power projection capabilities are aging and vulnerable. They have some more modern air power, but nothing that would enable them to survive long in any sort of encounter with the US military and we’d see them moving toward us weeks in advance. China’s navy is an interdiction fleet with modest power projection more suited to punishing third world nations that fail to honor Chinese contracts (aimed squarely at sub-Saharan Africa).
A fight over neutral territory (e.g. Turkey) would go much the same way. Russia would likely do a little better than China there, but US forces would obliterate what air assets they have, leaving their ground forces vulnerable. No direct conflict goes well there for either of them.
Where things get more interesting is a confrontation at or within their respective borders. Defeating either of them would require a massive build-up of US forces. They would see it coming and prime everything they’ve got to resist. They’ve been preparing for just this sort of conflict for decades, and both of them have a significant amount of hardware and manpower to throw at home defense. We would beat either of them, eventually, but it would take a long time (several years at least), burn through massive amounts of equipment and personnel, and risk all-out nuclear war.
Power projection is just plain difficult to do. It took a while for us to build up just for an invasion of Iraq. That was done with plenty of regional support, including bases and land that were accessible to us and relatively safe, all against a military that was much smaller and equipped with older, less effective weapons. China and Russia are vastly better equipped and we would have to be fully committed - as a nation - to sustain the kinds of losses we’re not used to seeing in order to achieve the sort of victory Americans expect.
Actually, some in China believe it is their destiny.
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