Yes, the U.S. Military Is In Decline. And There Is No Need to Panic
I'm fully convinced you are intentionally missing my point at this juncture. The U.S. would never lose a hot war with someone, particularly fighting in a third party country, now or in the near future. Furthermore, Russia and China are
UN SECURITY COUNCILORS WITH THE US. Stop regurgitating and vomiting corporate media and military-industrial complex propaganda and fearmongering. Its ****ing stupid and lacks all common sense.
So quit with your fearmongering. The U.S. is not about to be imminently destroyed by "ebul Comeez n Rooskies". Just, stop. Stop it.
Edit: Also, a post you seem to have missed that covers the other bases you want to talk about that is divergent from the subject matter I'm discussing:
You continue to avoid the purpose of military power projection. It is not to fight a war. Its purpose is to avoid fighting a war.
In addition, I do not think either the report itself or any of the comments on it in this thread are particularly hyperbolic which is the case YOU appear to be trying to make.
It is for example, entirely logical to pose that years of sequestration have had an effect on our military readiness and our ability to project power in the places where we have a strategic interest. We can't have it both ways. We can't "yammer" on about the evils of sequestration and then claim that they had no ill effects. Now that is illogical.
The warning sign in the road to me was the part of the report that speaks to this shift away from military resourcing based on having to fight on two fronts against two adversaries to a military posture based on having to fight one big war. That appears to me to be entirely self serving in that it should be entirely clear that if anything the chances of having to face two adversaries having completely different assets and intentions but that are similar in scope are if anything greater than they have been in close to a century!
The single big war approach would appear on the surface to be predicated on what our military has become and an unwillingness to tailor it to be the military we need. We have an all volunteer force in manpower very much now dependent on technology. Fine as far as it goes. However that appears to be bending us toward a military posture that is out of step with the threats we face. That is a mistake we have made before in this country.
In addition, we only speak to a willingness to bring the troops home when in fact we can't. Certainly we won't even if we could. We are pinned down in a war in Afghanistan that can't be won...won't be won. But we won't leave. You want to talk about wars we can't lose. How about the wars that we can't win!
Having LOST in Syria in all but the war against ISIS, we will now be compelled apparently to block Russia/Syria/Iran from taking advantage of their obvious victory there. So we can't leave. In the meantime we offer utter and complete nonsense with regard to our support of Saudi in Yemen.
For all Trump's meaningless words about bringing troops home, he doesn't bring any home nor does he even do anything that would suggest the means to bring them home and he is clearly pushing Saudi to start a direct shooting war with Iran so that we and the Israelis can join to bail Saudi out. Yet we have an all volunteer military that we keep sending into deployment after deployment as if one day they will not just wear out.