Spot on and to make matters worse, the Russians have made massive progress in the field of hypersonic missles and integrated air Defence. Right now it’s is questionable if the US Airforce could achieve air superiority against such an integrated air Defence and is aircraft carriers are basically history at this point. Nice for power projection but in a real war they would need to be kept far far away to not get blown out of the water. And then there is Russian progress in their nuclear deterrent. If the us military wants to just catch up and negate these Russian advantages it will cost then huge investments - on an already insane budget. Putin made a statement months ago that they won’t repeat the mistakes of the Soviet Union in terms of overspending in arms etc. the US could really end up like the Soviet Union (spending itself to death with weapons) all while China is the “laughing” third.
Spot on and to make matters worse, the Russians have made massive progress in the field of hypersonic missles and integrated air Defence. Right now it’s is questionable if the US Airforce could achieve air superiority against such an integrated air Defence and is aircraft carriers are basically history at this point. Nice for power projection but in a real war they would need to be kept far far away to not get blown out of the water. And then there is Russian progress in their nuclear deterrent. If the us military wants to just catch up and negate these Russian advantages it will cost then huge investments - on an already insane budget. Putin made a statement months ago that they won’t repeat the mistakes of the Soviet Union in terms of overspending in arms etc. the US could really end up like the Soviet Union (spending itself to death with weapons) all while China is the “laughing” third.
Great stuff!