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Originally Posted by scooter
I have conversations with my peers regularly about how a war with China or Russia might play out, and the universal opinion is something along the lines of "We're America! Of course we'd kick their ass!"
I find this amusing, in a scary way.
All of our land warfare capabilities are essentially the same as the end of the Cold War, and we have deactivated or reduced a number of the more useful ones (like cluster munitions). Meanwhile, they've studied the shit out of us and have adapted their gear and doctrine specifically to counter us. We're overly focused on chasing bronze age guys around mud huts.
I'd say with a good deal of certainty that Russia/China are much more prepared to fight us today than we are prepared to fight them.
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I agree.
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