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Originally Posted by crockett
Something you guys always over look when trying to compare the US to other armies..
The US has been well practiced with 2 wars over the last 10 years and we have special ops doing things all over the world.
What has Russia or China for that matter done in the last 10 years other than drills? What was the last "real" war for the Russians, Afghanistan where they pretty much dissolved the USSR. Chechen War is about all they have really done in the last 20+ years and that was really not a straight up fight.
China.. what have they done since WW2? Tossed a bit of support in Vietnam and shot some Tibetan monks?
Actual combat experience goes a long way, something the US has had lots of recent experience with...  |
Warfare has changed over the past twenty years. War used to be carpet bombing and lots of destruction, huge armies facing off against each other. Now it's all about small missile strikes that neatly destroy government and military operations. The second war with Iraq was over the moment it started when the first missile strike completely destroyed Iraq's entire command and control - and they never saw it coming.
No one noticed, but the entire nature of war itself just changed over night over the past few days... The US launched an unmanned jet off of an aircraft carrier, the USS George Bush. Doesn't sound too impressive until you stop and think about it: In the next decade, the United States will be deploying jets with no pilots and then ships with no crew. While we will always need boots on the ground, just imagine a war where one country can launch thousands of planes without fear of loosing a single pilot.
Sort of makes that submarine the Russians spent seventeen years building look kind of silly doesn't it?