Since Vietnam the US has depended on air power to turn the tide of the war/conflict….today we not only have highly qualified pilots but also depend on drones to do some of the heavy lifting…..
But after multi-million ordinances deployed and thousands on thousands of sorties….what have we gained?
But first let’s look at the word “obsolescent”…….meaning basically…no longer useful……
What, precisely, is the US military for, and what, precisely, can it do? In practical terms, how powerful is it? On paper, it is formidable, huge, with carrier battle groups, advanced technology, remarkable submarines, satellites, and so on. What does this translate to?
Military power does not exist independently, but only in relation to specific circumstances. Comparing technical specifications of the T-14 to those of the M1A2, or Su-34 to F-15, or numbers of this to numbers of that, is an interesting intellectual exercise. It means little without reference to specific circumstances.
For example, America is vastly superior militarily to North Korea in every category of arms–but the North has nuclear bombs. It can’t deliver them to the US, but probably can to Seoul. Even without nuclear weapons, it has a large army and large numbers of artillery tubes within range of Seoul. It has an unpredictable government. As Gordon Liddy said, if your responses to provocation are wildly out of proportion to those provocations, and unpredictable, nobody will provoke you.
Source: An Obsolescent Military – The Unz Review
Unz Review has a decidedly Libertarian point of view…..when reading that take it into consideration before going off on some worthless tangent.
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The true wars will soon be fought over the Internet. The technology already exists to cripple banks, communications, stock markets, etc., without the need for any military intervention.
Drones
Not an option if you can jam their hovering frequencies. It’s just a matter of time before this will come to fruition.