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No one has a real air force or a real navy except USA. Well some have, but 10% of the size and much poorer trained as well. And air force changed little with re

No one has a real air force or a real navy except USA. Well some have, but 10% of the size and much poorer trained as well. And air force changed little with respect to asymmetric warfare, and Navy didn't change at all (it only starts to, pouring money into things like lasers to protect from small inflatable boat attacks). They are still pretty much Cold War-ish. Ground forces will lack artillery pieces and shells and will find its logistics stretched, and tank mods of recent 20 years were going the wrong way for a shooting war, and new combat vehicles like Stryker and not what a real war requires, so it will have some trouble, but ground forces need to act only in the very end - where enemy is softened enough by airstrikes - and that will work whole lot better than in Desert Storm these days. Much more kills per sortie due to all these smart munitions - and there are sufficient numbers of them to break down any armed forces in the world. So in essence, air force will make sure that every adversary will be pretty soon down to 'asymmetric warfare' level if not completely defeated. Think Russian WWII partisans. And that is what US Army has an excellent experience dealing with.

memracom 10y ago
This is precisely the arrogant ignorance that led to the British Navy's shame with Camperdown and Victoria and then the weak showing at Jutland. Real soldiers have respect for their adversary and since they practice war in war games, they know that no adversary can be discounted. In particular intelligence and willpower count for far more than weaponry. The film Avatar is another good example of how arrogance about the adversary led to defeat. The enemy that you need to fear is the one who is not afraid to suffer pain and loss. Like the Soviet Union in WWI for instance. Or Syria's Army nowadays.
gaius 9y ago
No one has a real air force or a real navy except USA. Well some have, but 10% of the size and much poorer trained as well. Haha, read this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
- ksumo 9y ago
  And then there was this: https://cofda.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/u-s-repeatedly-loses-in-pentagon-war-games-against-russia/ https://cofda.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/u-s-repeatedly-loses-... Ochmanek has run the two-day table-top exercise eight times now, including at the Pentagon and at Ramstein Air Base, in Germany, with active-duty military officers. “We played it 16 different times with eight different teams,” Ochmanek says, “always with the same conclusion.” Can you guess what the conclusion was?

memracom 10y ago

This is precisely the arrogant ignorance that led to the British Navy's shame with Camperdown and Victoria and then the weak showing at Jutland. Real soldiers have respect for their adversary and since they practice war in war games, they know that no adversary can be discounted. In particular intelligence and willpower count for far more than weaponry. The film Avatar is another good example of how arrogance about the adversary led to defeat. The enemy that you need to fear is the one who is not afraid to suffer pain and loss. Like the Soviet Union in WWI for instance. Or Syria's Army nowadays.

gaius 9y ago

No one has a real air force or a real navy except USA. Well some have, but 10% of the size and much poorer trained as well. Haha, read this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

ksumo 9y ago
And then there was this: https://cofda.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/u-s-repeatedly-loses-in-pentagon-war-games-against-russia/ https://cofda.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/u-s-repeatedly-loses-... Ochmanek has run the two-day table-top exercise eight times now, including at the Pentagon and at Ramstein Air Base, in Germany, with active-duty military officers. “We played it 16 different times with eight different teams,” Ochmanek says, “always with the same conclusion.” Can you guess what the conclusion was?