Oh 100%, if the US fought a real war, it would lose harder than Poland did in WW2.

Its just horribly unprepared.

The only saving grace the US has is China is even more incompetent, and Russia, well the only way the US would fight Russia in a conventional war is if the US went to Russia to fight the war. Which case it WILL lose because nobody in history, no matter their advantages, has ever beat Russians in Russia, and there was no shortage of people trying all throughout history.

But as far a military power goes...

Russia >>>>>>>>>>>>> USA > China (mostly from officer incompetence)

Why Russia ranked so highly? They haven't forgotten the basics of warfare: that artillery does 90% of the work, and the only thing better than artillery is more artillery shooting bigger guns. Combined that with a slow advance that never exposes their flanks or out paces their supply lines, and the Russian military doctrine is very, very hard to beat when they have artillery and armor to back them up.

And in case you doubt me on China, I saw recently a video of China showing off one of their special forces units and they were showing off their China-made special gun for the special forces... And then they panned over the targets, the bullets were all keyholding (aka tumbling sideways) inside of 5 yards. And remember this is their spec ops guns, the best for the best of the best of the best. now imagine the garbage their conscript infantry has.

Communist Mao China used SOVIET made guns, and everything else, and they still failed horribly. We'll see when China inevitably launches an aggressive war, what Chinese weapons kill more of, China's own soldiers, or its enemy.

And yes I am being absolutely brutal putting the USM only slightly ahead of China. US officers are largely highly competent, but US equipment also sucks, its mostly worn out, expensive, hard to maintain cold-war stuff, and the US military is currently built around the idea of fighting small bands of irregulars, not a huge force on force peer wars. The US isn't ready, the collapse of morale from the fallout of Covid, followed by a record number of personnel seeking discharges, has gutted its readiness.

Oh 100%, if the US fought a real war, it would lose harder than Poland did in WW2.

Its just horribly unprepared.

The only saving grace the US has is China is even more incompetent, and Russia, well the only way the US would fight Russia in a conventional war is if the US went to Russia to fight the war. Which case it WILL lose because nobody in history, no matter their advantages, has ever beat Russians in Russia, and there was no shortage of people trying all throughout history.

But as far a military power goes...

Russia >>>>>>>>>>>>> USA > China (mostly from officer incompetence)

And in case you doubt me on China, I saw recently a video of China showing off one of their special forces units and they were showing off their China-made special gun for the special forces... And then they panned over the targets, the bullets were all keyholding (aka tumbling sideways) inside of 5 yards. And remember this is their spec ops guns, the best for the best of the best of the best. now imagine the garbage their conscript infantry has.

Communist Mao China used SOVIET made guns, and everything else, and they still failed horribly. We'll see when China inevitably launches an aggressive war, what Chinese weapons kill more of, China's own soldiers, or its enemy.

And yes I am being absolutely brutal putting the USM only slightly ahead of China. US officers are largely highly competent, but US equipment also sucks, its mostly worn out, expensive, hard to maintain cold-war stuff, and the US military is currently built around the idea of fighting small bands of irregulars, not a huge force on force peer war.

Oh 100%, if the US fought a real war, it would lose harder than Poland did in WW2.

Its just horribly unprepared.

The only saving grace the US has is China is even more incompetent, and Russia, well the only way the US would fight Russia in a conventional war is if the US went to Russia to fight the war.

But as far a military power goes...

Russia >>>>>>>>>>>>> USA > China (mostly from officer incompetence)

And in case you doubt me on China, I saw recently a video of China showing off one of their special forces units and they were showing off their China-made special gun for the special forces... And then they panned over the targets, the bullets were all keyholding (aka tumbling sideways) inside of 5 yards. And remember this is their spec ops guns, the best for the best of the best of the best. now imagine the garbage their conscript infantry has.

Communist Mao China used SOVIET made guns, and everything else, and they still failed horribly. We'll see when China inevitably launches an aggressive war, what Chinese weapons kill more of, China's own soldiers, or its enemy.

Oh 100%, if the US fought a real war, it would lose harder than Poland did in WW2.

Its just horribly unprepared.

The only saving grace the US has is China is even more incompetent, and Russia, well the only way the US would fight Russia in a conventional war is if the US went to Russia to fight the war.

But as far a military power goes...

Russia >>>>>>>>>>>>> USA > China (mostly from officer incompetence)