'Weak' US military unable to fight major conflict: Report
'Weak' US military unable to fight major conflict: Report
With a severe recruitment crisis and lackluster scores for readiness and capacity, all three major branches of the US armed forces are lagging behind Russia and China
Military industrial complex makes naked demand for more money.
Yeah pretty much, but the headline is also true.
Inshallah
$1.25 trillion isn't enough! take social security and the rest of the education funds now!
Eat shit. This is what you get when your country isn't worth defending
Hurtful and true
I like you yogthos but i ain't takin a study from the heritage foundation as anything but horseshit. The only thing left to wonder once you see their involvement is what they're lying/lobbying for.
The motivations of the heritage foundation are obvious. They're shilling for the military industrial complex. However, there are lots of other supporting indicators that the study isn't too far off the mark. US recruitment is below targets, the war in Ukraine has depleted much of the existing stocks, and has shown that a lot of US weapons don't work as advertised. US military industry isn't able to produce basic things like artillery shells at a reasonable rate, and US lacks a trained workforce to increase military production. These are real and tangible problems that don't have simple solutions.
In general, I disagree with the idea of simply dismissing information based on the source. This is how you end up in echo chambers where everybody just repeats the things they want to hear to each other. I think it's more productive to account for the biases of different sources and to evaluate what's being said on its own merits. With a source like the heritage foundation, it's probably worth looking up other collaborating sources, but the mere fact of them having done the study doesn't automatically invalidate it.
a lot of US weapons don't work as advertised
I'm not sure about this as much as it shows that the American military industrial complex overall is not set up to fight a peer war. It's been tooled for the last 70 years to fight against opponents that have virtually no choice in the pace of warfare. The high end weapons are fine, but there aren't enough of them to support sustained, high intensity combat.
In general, I disagree with the idea of simply dismissing information based on the source
You're right.
US weapons don't work as advertised. US military industry isn't able to produce basic things like artillery shells at a reasonable rate, and US lacks a trained workforce...
If you don't mind could you point me towards more on this? Ive not read anything except something about private manufacturers gouging the us govt on weapons
These articles are just bait to attract more MIC dollars but it probably is true yet does not matter. The military in peacetime (such as it is) is basically just a big destructive shock-absorber to cushion some initial onslaught until everything retools for the long slow grind of whatever type of warfare actually works for that given situation (found by trial & error counted in deaths mostly). Currently they're fully optimized for being able to bomb defenseless civilians anywhere in the entire world given 24 hours notice, which is not really something that will work against the PLA.
aww did someone try to take over the world but stretched themselves too thin?And what has this country done for me? If no one owes me anything, I don't owe the rich anything either.