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Kris Osborn, National Interest: The U.S. Army's Biggest Fear: Getting Crushed in a Devastating Land War to Russia or China
After more than a decade of counterinsurgency warfare, the Army is now emphasizing major force-on-force mechanized warfare against Russia or Chinese weapons around the world.
The global proliferation of Russian and Chinese weapons massively increases the likelihood that US Army forces will confront tanks, drones, electronic warfare systems, precision munitions, armored vehicles and artillery made by near-peer competitors.
Although the prospect of major-power mechanized ground war between the US and Russia or China may not seem likely, the US Army is tasked with the need to be ready for any ground-combat scenario. What this means, Army leaders expained, is that the current and future combat environment the globe is both increasingly urban and armed with Russian and Chinese-made tanks and weapons.
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WNU Editor: I am sure the U.S. Army is ready to wage conventional warfare .... even against potential adversaries like Russia or China. But the casualty numbers will be beyond astronomic .... even if no nuclear weapons are used. And in the event that the U.S. Army is losing .... expect the nukes to come out.
