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U.S. "Gets Its Ass Handed To It" In World War III Simulations: RAND
March 12, 2019
In simulated World War III scenarios, the U.S. continues to lose against Russia and China, two top war planners warned last week. “In our games, when we fight Russia and China, blue gets its ass handed to it" RAND analyst David Ochmanek said Thursday.
RAND's wargames show how US Armed Forces - colored blue on wargame maps - experience the most substantial losses in one scenario after another and still can't thwart Russia or China - which predictably is red - from accomplishing their objectives: annihilating Western forces.
Watch his remarks at approximately 13:07 in the video below:
"We lose a lot of people. We lose a lot of equipment. We usually fail to achieve our objective of preventing aggression by the adversary," he warned.
In the next military conflict, which some believe may come as soon as the mid-2020s, all five battlefield domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, will be heavily contested, suggesting the U.S. could have a difficult time in achieving superiority as it has in prior conflicts.
The simulated war games showed, the "red" aggressor force often destroys U.S. F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters on the runway, sends several Naval fleets to the depths, destroys US military bases, and through electronic warfare, takes control of critical military communication systems. In short, a gruesome, if simulated, annihilation of some of the most modern of US forces.
“In every case I know of,” said Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense with years of wargaming experience, “the F-35 rules the sky when it’s in the sky, but it gets killed on the ground in large numbers.”
So, as Russia and China develop fifth-generation fighters and hypersonic missiles, “things that rely on sophisticated base infrastructures like runways and fuel tanks are going to have a hard time,” Ochmanek said. “Things that sail on the surface of the sea are going to have a hard time.”
"That’s why the 2020 budget coming out next week retires the carrier USS Truman decades early and cuts two amphibious landing ships, as we’ve reported. It’s also why the Marine Corps is buying the jump-jet version of the F-35, which can take off and land from tiny, ad hoc airstrips, but how well they can maintain a high-tech aircraft in low-tech surroundings is an open question," said Breaking Defense.
Meanwhile, speaking purely hypothetically of course, "if we went to war in Europe, there would be one Patriot battery moving, and it would go to Ramstein. And that’s it,” Work complained. The US has 58 Brigade Combat Teams across the continent but doesn't have anti-air and missile-defense capabilities required to handle a barrage of missiles from Russia.
RAND also war-gamed cyber and electronic attacks in the simulations, Work said; Russia and China tend to cripple US communication networks.
"Whenever we have an exercise and the red force really destroys our command and control, we stop the exercise," Work said without a trace of humor. Beijing calls this “system destruction warfare,” Work said. They aim to “attack the American battle network at all levels, relentlessly, and they practice it all the time.”
The Air Force asked RAND to formulate a plan several years ago to improve the outcomes of the wargames in favor of the US, Ochmanek said. “We found it impossible to spend more than $8 billion a year" to fix the problems.
"That’s $8 billion for the Air Force. Triple that to cover for the Army and the Navy Department (which includes the US Marines)," Ochmanek said, "and you get $24 billion."
Work was less concerned about the near-term risk of war, and he said, China and Russia aren't ready to fight because their modernization efforts have not been completed. He said any major conflict is unlikely for another 10 to 20 years from now.
He said "$24 billion a year for the next five years would be a good expenditure" to prepare the military for World War III.
RAND offers a sobering assessment that America could lose a multi-front war in the future, which is quite shocking considering that the US spent nearly three times as much as the second biggest war power, China, did in 2017.
With the defense budget stuck around $700 billion per annum for the remainder of President Trump's term, America's Warhawks are inciting fear through simulated wargames with one purpose only: demand more taxpayers' money for war spending.
Vladimir Putin endorses nuclear doctrine allowing for first strike
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8381333/Putin-endorses-rule-allowing-carry-strike.html
Chinese Dr Li Yi:"We’ll soon surpass the US, they will not survive, we’ll drive the U.S to its death"
Jan 29, 2021
Feeble Joe Biden Falls Several Times Boarding Air Force One – Ends Up on His Knees
By Cristina Laila
Published March 19, 2021 at 11:08am
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78-year-old Joe Biden fell several times while boarding Air Force One on Friday.
Biden tried jogging up the stairs to board Air Force One and fell hard on his knee.
The US military has lost a second Russian submarine in the past 24 hours
By The Baltic Review
March 14, 2021
The US has started to panic after it lost two Russian submarines from its sight overnight.
A couple of hours ago, the US military launched a military special operation to search for the Russian submarine Rostov-on-Don, which unexpectedly went missing after entering the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. A few hours later, the US military was also unable to locate a second Russian submarine, which had left the port of Tartus, where the Russian naval base is located.
The US military is most concerned that the Russian Navy submarines “disappeared” at the very moment when a US carrier strike group appeared in Mediterranean waters.
China beefs up forces in Taiwan strait
China beefs up coastal forces as it prepares for possible Taiwan invasion https://t.co/4C1s3nai4d via @scmpnews
— EndGameWW3 (@EndGameWW3) October 19, 2020
Air force loses in air war
'We're going to lose fast': U.S. Air Force held a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack https://t.co/zhqtlS79gQ via @YahooNews
— EndGameWW3 (@EndGameWW3) March 11, 2021
South seas escalation
According to Taiwanese military sources, Chinese and U.S. naval vessels appeared in the water near Taiwan's Orchid Island around the same time on March 11, after USS John Finn (DDG 113) transited Taiwan Strait. pic.twitter.com/1ZobQ0qWcP
— Duan Dang (@duandang) March 12, 2021
Biden weakening the military
Tucker Carlson accuses Joe Biden of trying to feminize the military, argues China is ramping up it's military masculinity. pic.twitter.com/8lDKEPyws6
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) March 10, 2021
Putin pulls ties with Washington
BREAKING: After Pres. Biden said "Putin is a killer" in ABC interview, Russia's Washington envoy has been called back home to "analyze future ties with Washington"
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 17, 2021
China rebukes Biden
CCP Foreign Affairs Chief Yang Jiechi to U.S. Sec. of State Antony Blinken:
— Izzy (@The__Real__Izzy) March 19, 2021
"The United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength" pic.twitter.com/QiQPPIXZLe
In separate incidents, Moscow and Beijing sent a strong message to the Democrats now running America that they will no longer tolerate being told what to do.
Russia: “Whatever you accuse others of is what you are doing or acting yourself.”
China: “The US no longer has the qualification to speak to China from a position of strength.
Russia and China tell Biden: The old days are over - Asia Times
America can do nothing to stop it, our political system has become a banana republic, divided by race, gender, economic status and everything else. We had a good run.
— LT_COMMO_THICKNESS (@CommoLt) March 26, 2021
What is America going to do when China goes for Taiwan and Russia goes for Ukraine at the same time.
The US has been too weak to fight a 2-front war for at least since Obama was elected.
— Discredited Social Entity GAB@chaleck (@Chaleck) March 26, 2021
Trump to his credit, was trying to rebuild the US military, w/ an eye on Beijing. Even if he'd been allowed to succeed, a 2-front war would be very unwise. https://t.co/EKOndJ020J
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