Lack of trust and delegation.
No professional NCO corps.
No trust in junior officers.
No skills in C3.
Shitty logistics.
Makes a weak military.
That is what scares them as they are
structured the same way.
All your plans change when the first punch is thrown.
American military would have rolled across Ukraine.
Because we won all those wars? 😂😂😂
All your points are good but I would add one more CORRUPTION!
Corruption is built into the system and it goes back to the old Soviet Union. The higher the pecking order the more you can skim off the top. The problem is two fold, the money allocated for something gets smaller as it passes through many hands and so when it does reach the end, there is not enough money to do the job. Second is those at the top don’t want to hear bad news so the guys at the bottom lie to those at the top.
Military decisions are being made by people who have no idea the state of their equipment or the training of the troops.
With nothing left for any other action in the rest of the world.
And we have trannies. Glass houses.
“skills in C3”
It’s called C4 now, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers.
Not to be confused with C-4 or Composition C-4, plastique, RDX...
Logistics and lack of professional NCO’s are the biggest failures in my opinion.
Anyone associated with the military in the USA knows the NCO’s are the backbone that makes it all work.