U.S., NATO Need Fewer but Better Corps

[rangerrebew]

    U.S., NATO Need Fewer but Better Corps
 
Photo by: U.S. Army/Charles Rosemond
Thu, 01/21/2021 - 08:00

Great-power competition and multidomain operations likely will “pose a challenge” for NATO forces after years of focusing on counterinsurgency operations, according to a paper published jointly by the Association of the U.S. Army and the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

Western militaries have seen a reduced emphasis on preparing for large-scale warfighting and corps-level operations since the end of the Cold War, but the return of great-power competition is beginning to change that, according to the paper.

“The return of great power competition brings the corps back into focus as a key component to warfighting at scale, and in competition across high-threat, politically complex environments,” write retired Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, an AUSA senior fellow, and Jack Watling, a research fellow for RUSI, the U.K.’s leading defense and security think tank.

https://www.ausa.org/news/us-nato-need-fewer-better-corps

[mikezpen]

But who's gonna pay for it? Western Europe hasn't held up its end for the most part. And now they'll bleed out our armed forces to fund socialist priorities.