More like the mega steroid users long after they stopped using steroids. The army today is nothing like what it was during the Gulf War. And it was a coalition of like 6-7 countries, all of which are either no longer friendly towards the USA or have armies that are now completely pathetic.
The US makes like 20 tanks a year, and they aren't new tanks. They're refurbished shit from years ago. The US couldn't field 1000 of them, much less multiple thousands.
And this is exactly the case across every single military system except the space satellite and drone stuff.
And Iraq wasn't occupied during the Gulf War, despite there being like a million guys involved in the conflict. Most of the damage was done by a massive bombing campaign due to supreme air superiority.
Air superiority that wouldn't exist today against Russia in any shape or form. Not only because the planes no longer exist to achieve this (you have 1/2 as many bombers as there were in the early 90s), but because Russia has one of the best integrated air defense systems in the world. Literally only 4-5 countries in the entire world have systems like this.
If you can't use bombers (of which you have like 100 to begin with), you need to use men (which no longer want to enlist so you don't have enough), or tanks (which you don't have in sufficient battle-ready numbers) with artillery (which is wildly depleted after all the shells were given to Ukraine).
The only thing that would work is tactical nukes, but good luck there considering Russia has better and newer nuclear everything.
You would be surprised at how fast the vaunted air defense system would go down. It would take very little time to achieve air superiority. Then, every military vehicle west of a given line would be toast in short order.
Tanks are for the victory party.
My primary concern would be spare parts. The military runs on spare parts. The democrats always deplete our stockpiles of these. But I seem to recall Trump topping off our supply.
We would probably add some NATO exchange pilots to optimize sortie rates.
The whole point of massive integrated air defense systems is that you cannot take them out easily from the air and the USA absolutely doesn't have any other methods besides attacking by air.
Your only real method is to oversaturate the air around a specific region so that something gets through to hit the nodes of the system.
That is exactly what Russia is doing by using literally thousands of cheapo drones originally designed in Iran. Also the same tactic used by the Houthis and Hamas.
Get what the USA army has zero of? Cheap shit that flies that can be used to saturate AA systems.
Every single weapon made in the USA is designed to be complex and as expensive as possible, because this sells for the big bucks.
I won’t talk about how you do it, but we are quite capable. And yes our stuff is expensive. But it becomes very cost effective in combat. One of the keys to accelerated warfare was just a software upgrade.
It’s not WWII or the Cold War anymore. The Gulf War took 45 days against the third largest army. We are now on mega steroids compared to then.
More like the mega steroid users long after they stopped using steroids. The army today is nothing like what it was during the Gulf War. And it was a coalition of like 6-7 countries, all of which are either no longer friendly towards the USA or have armies that are now completely pathetic.
The US makes like 20 tanks a year, and they aren't new tanks. They're refurbished shit from years ago. The US couldn't field 1000 of them, much less multiple thousands.
And this is exactly the case across every single military system except the space satellite and drone stuff.
And Iraq wasn't occupied during the Gulf War, despite there being like a million guys involved in the conflict. Most of the damage was done by a massive bombing campaign due to supreme air superiority.
Air superiority that wouldn't exist today against Russia in any shape or form. Not only because the planes no longer exist to achieve this (you have 1/2 as many bombers as there were in the early 90s), but because Russia has one of the best integrated air defense systems in the world. Literally only 4-5 countries in the entire world have systems like this.
If you can't use bombers (of which you have like 100 to begin with), you need to use men (which no longer want to enlist so you don't have enough), or tanks (which you don't have in sufficient battle-ready numbers) with artillery (which is wildly depleted after all the shells were given to Ukraine).
The only thing that would work is tactical nukes, but good luck there considering Russia has better and newer nuclear everything.
You would be surprised at how fast the vaunted air defense system would go down. It would take very little time to achieve air superiority. Then, every military vehicle west of a given line would be toast in short order.
Tanks are for the victory party.
My primary concern would be spare parts. The military runs on spare parts. The democrats always deplete our stockpiles of these. But I seem to recall Trump topping off our supply.
We would probably add some NATO exchange pilots to optimize sortie rates.
That's just magical thinking and stupid talk.
The whole point of massive integrated air defense systems is that you cannot take them out easily from the air and the USA absolutely doesn't have any other methods besides attacking by air.
Your only real method is to oversaturate the air around a specific region so that something gets through to hit the nodes of the system.
That is exactly what Russia is doing by using literally thousands of cheapo drones originally designed in Iran. Also the same tactic used by the Houthis and Hamas.
Get what the USA army has zero of? Cheap shit that flies that can be used to saturate AA systems.
Every single weapon made in the USA is designed to be complex and as expensive as possible, because this sells for the big bucks.
I won’t talk about how you do it, but we are quite capable. And yes our stuff is expensive. But it becomes very cost effective in combat. One of the keys to accelerated warfare was just a software upgrade.