Every real war for the U.S. starts as a running disaster because at the beginning of the war the military is run by perfumed prince generals whose only contribution is stabbing each other in the back.
It takes six months to two years to displace them with generals who know anything about fighting.
We haven’t had, at least what the world is going to know, s real war since WW II. Everything after that was a police action, a conflict, or we were mixing on someone else’s civil war.
But once the idea that a chemical/bio action can be traced to one entity, then it really doesn’t make any difference. The US military has been training for caustic environments for many years with their own program starting full bore in the late 60’s in the military only. Some other countries do civilian assistance also.
But we are not going to lose fast to a country that is no more prepared for the environment than we are. Our military is provided equipment like MOPP kits, hardened shelters and decontamination capacity if needed to handle the situation. Conventional will have to follow the BC attack and that takes people and equipment to accomplish it. The next real war will not be fought on soil. It’s going to come from the sky. And the soil thing will be much later.
Besides, by the innuendos of your article, you think we are in an attack right now. And you’d be right. But this is the Chinese government payback for everyone “dogpiling” on them financially. They think this way. They figure if they make us sick, and not kill a lot of people, they’ll prove their point without starting a real war. One they can’t win either.
wy69