Ruminations on War in the 21st Century

Agreed, Armchair Warlord nails the paper tiger posing as the US military.

My additions:

There is no Auftragstaktik in the modern western militaries despite their “embrace” of Mission Command.

Carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. A tremendous waste of capital and humans that will be neutralized and destroyed in the first 72 hours of a peer conflict.

No admission that the era of manned tanks and combat aircraft is over for the remainder of the 21st century.

There is zero ability for the entire west to intercept and neutralize incoming IRBM/ICBM after warhead bus release at apogee. In the US in particular, it presently has the ability to possibly intercept 11 incoming warheads [see Ground-Based Mid-course Defense (GMD)].

The IRBM/ICBM with conventional warheads leveraging high velocity for tremendous non-nuclear blast destruction is real.

The entire nuclear triad in the US must be brutally reexamined. Unknown whether the Pantex Plant in TX could handle the retirement and dismantling of increased and accelerated reduction of the nuclear weapons holdings.

The US and western acquisition systems are existentially rotten from stem to stern coupled with a manufacturing throughput lag that is deep and wide. US fabbing capability and manpower is in a competency crisis that is close to doom-loop entropy.

For the first time in human warfare, it is reasonable to employ an affordable mass (small and cheap drones) modality to kill individual soldiers on the battlefield. Robotics is the future whether you like it or not.

Autonomous targeting is not optional anymore because humans in the loop for the targeting cycling for servicing incoming hypersonics munitions are out of time.

Enough for now.

Check out the OP from Armchair Warlord: