Did you read what you posted? Exactly what I'm saying is that Sailors, Marines, Soldiers are worried, concerned about the immediate threat, see the immediate threat as the more important, more dangerous threats. E1 through E5/6 arent concerned about the potential long game Russia is playing. Which is why the average Servicemembers would not view Russia as a threat. The Pentagon and intelligence community however would. Which is why their training changed in the last couple years only to put China and Russia in the forefront as threats, over the more immediate threats that are still out there.
But that doesnt change the fact that for the last 20 years at least we did not actually Russia as a serious threat, not until very recently and the article points out correctly how Russia can and has taken a little advantage of that which is going to take time to turn around.
18-26 year old average Sailors, Marines, Soldiers are not going to think of the long game, spies as a more serious, concerning, dangerous threat than the one that is actually shooting at them, running ships into them, straight up openly threatening them.
And the majority of our fleets hang out in the Persian Gulf. We just recently started hanging out far out from China. Mainly due to North Korea, and to an extent China, but not really threatening Russia. The majority of Sailors haven't come close to Russia.
This is coming from a Sailor who has been in in the last 20 years, for the last 20 years. I was in the Gulf when the Cole was hit.
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