What Is Happening In The Ukraine War Should Scare The Hell Out Of Us Kurt Schlichter

[mystery-ak]

What Is Happening In The Ukraine War Should Scare The Hell Out Of Us
Kurt Schlichter


There is a lot to criticize about America’s current military – and I’ve criticized it – but there’s another problem no one seems to want to talk about. It’s scary as hell. The United States is not ready for the kind of war we are seeing played out in Ukraine, a peer-to-peer conventional fight that is rewriting the rules of what we thought war was supposed to be. And, with leadership in the White House sitting in a rocker staring slack-jawed at Matlock reruns, we are not in a position to fix what will mean defeat in our next real war.

This is not solely about wokeness and how the officer corps has embraced the ridiculous shibboleths of the progressive left regarding race, gender, and the climate scam, but wokeness relates to the problem that the Ukraine War has revealed. When the leadership is focused on ridiculous frivolities like “white nationalism” and trans idiocy, it is not integrating the massive changes to how we fight that we need to compete on a modern battlefield.

And we do need massive changes. The old wisdom is that the military always fights the last war. Now, we’re trying to fight the last two wars. We are trying to refight the conventional Cold War model that won the Gulf War while also fighting the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. What we are not preparing to fight is the kind of war we are seeing in Ukraine.

more
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/08/26/what-is-happening-in-the-ukraine-war-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-us-n2643880

[Fishrrman]

A hard, but good, column by Kurt.

Some things he didn't mention:
- In a REAL war against a REAL enemy with a REAL Army, we cannot win without ... say, is it getting "drafty" in here...?

- Again, in a real war, faced with situations that start going bad quickly, the only way out may become... "nuclear".