Now the F-22 is useless to us, since China has taken the plans and advanced them to build a much more advanced plane and now all we have is the F-35 and that has not even made it into fight testing.... its a massive failure and we did a blog on that as well. We also did a blog about how Israel shipped our most advanced patriot missiles to China, after we gave them to Israel to protect her. Lot of good that did.
And what has Israel done for America in return for us being a good ally and giving her billions in both regular and military foreign aid??? Why, they bombed and tried to sink and kill all the sailors on the USS Liberty for political reasons to manipulate us into going to war against Eygpt. Does that sound familiar? Does 9-11 ring a bell and the subsequent wars that have devastated our military?
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Psychos In US Pentagon Dust Off War Plans For Russia, And Discover It Is A "No Win" Scenario!
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2015/09/psychos-in-us-pentagon-dust-off-war.html
By Northern Truthseeker, September 24, 2015
We are all aware by now of how the US is purposely ramping up all the
fear mongering about the "evil" Russians... This is the same type of
propaganda that was used in the Cold War that ended with the break up of
the former Soviet Union back in 1991... But of course the United States
is in horrible economic shape and the psychos in the US government and
the US military have the insane thought that the only way out of the
economic crash that is approaching is to have a nice little world war
against both Russia and China...
But I came across the following article today that shows that the psychos in the US military are quickly discovering that a new war against Russia (and very possibly against Russia's ally China) is not the "win win" scenario that they had believed in the past... The article comes from the "National Security News' website, at www.nationalsecurity.news, and is entitled: "As Pentagon Dusts Off War Plans For Russia, Planners Can't Find One Scenario In Which The US Wins", and is definitely a must read by everyone... I have it right here in its entirety and of course my own thoughts and comments to follow:
To be sure, the Pentagon is always generating contingency plans for every possible scenario – from armed confrontation with Iran and North Korea to stopping zombie attacks (not a joke). As FP notes, those plans are then ranked and honed depending on priority and probability.
Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, conflict with Russia and former Soviet satellite states dropped off the radar and, for the past two decades essentially sat on a shelf gathering dust.
Now, however, as Russia becomes more active in Eastern Europe and more aggressive in Ukraine and Syria, Pentagon planners have begun revisiting old Cold War scenarios, according to several officials in the State and Defense departments, FP reported. Specifically, those plans are being updated “to reflect a new, post-Crimea-annexation geopolitical reality in which Russia is no longer a potential partner, but a potential threat,” the magazine reported online.
“Given the security environment, given the actions of Russia, it has become apparent that we need to make sure to update the plans that we have in response to any potential aggression against any NATO allies,” one senior defense official familiar with the updated plans said.
“Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine made the US dust off its contingency plans,” added Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense for policy and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security. “They were pretty out of date.”
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According to the senior defense official, the new plans are taking two tracks: One has homed in on what the U.S. could do as part of NATO, if Russia were to launch an offensive against an alliance member; the other looks at what actions the U.S. could take outside the NATO umbrella. But both plans, however, focus on Russian incursions into the Baltic States, as this is the most likely scenario.
In addition, planners are not focusing solely on traditional warfare but on so-called “hybrid” tactics Moscow used to infiltrate and take Crimea – seemingly unaffiliated operatives and forces, manufactured protests and, of course, elements of cyberwarfare.
“They are trying to figure out in what circumstances [the U.S. Defense Department] would respond to a cyberattack,” Julie Smith, who until recently served as the vice president’s deputy national security advisor, told FP. “There’s a lively debate on that going on right now.”
Experts say that is a major departure from Cold War-era planning.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the West slowly began to integrate Russia into NATO, the alliance initially formed to counter the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. Indeed, NATO even began absorbing some of the former Warsaw Pact nations. At the same time, the alliance stepped up cooperation and joint training with Moscow.
In 1994, Russia signed on to NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” program, and in 1997 Russia signed an agreement of mutual cooperation with the alliance declaring that the two were no longer adversaries. And while Russia at times voiced displeasure with an expanding NATO, from the West – and from Washington, in particular – everything appeared fairly normal. Moscow even cooperated in allowing U.S. and NATO war materiel bound for Afghanistan to pass through a NATO transit point in Ulyanovsk, Russia.
But following Russia’s war with neighboring Georgia in 2008, things began to change. While NATO slightly altered its plans as related to Russia, the Pentagon did not. In the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, the Pentagon’s office in charge of force planning – which recommends long-term resource allocation – proposed to then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to include contingencies to counter an aggressive Russia, but he refused, FP reported.
“Everyone’s judgment at the time was that Russia is pursuing objectives aligned with ours,” noted David Ochmanek, who, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, ran that office at the time. “Russia’s future looked to be increasingly integrated with the West.”
And Smith, who assisted in devising European and NATO policy at the Pentagon at the time, told FP, “If you asked the military five years ago, ‘Give us a flavor of what you’re thinking about,’ they would’ve said, ‘Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism — and China.’”
Many believed Russia’s response to Georgia was provoked by the latter and more of a one-time thing. But the Crimea and Ukraine – which caught planners off-guard – as well as direct Russian military involvement in Syria, has changed the Pentagon’s thinking.
In June 2014, just one month before leaving his force-planning position at the Pentagon, Air Force officials sought out Ochmanek for insight on the Baltic region and other Russian neighborhoods ahead of President Obama’s visit to Tallinn, Estonia. In addition, the Army sought out an Ochmanek colleague at the Rand Corporation, where Ochmanek also frequented, to run a “table top” war game between a Red (Russia) team and a blue (NATO) team. As FP reports, the scenario was similar to the one that played out in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine: Increased Russian political pressure on Estonia and Latvia (each NATO country sharing borders with Russia and home to sizeable Russian-speaking minorities) followed by the introduction of provocateurs, seizures of government buildings and demonstrations. The question: Would NATO be able to defend those nations?
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As FP reported:
The results were dispiriting. Given the recent reductions in the defense budgets of NATO member countries and American pullback from the region, Ochmanek says the blue team was outnumbered 2-to-1 in terms of manpower, even if all the US and NATO troops stationed in Europe were dispatched to the Baltics — including the 82nd Airborne , [sic] which is supposed to be ready to go on 24 hours’ notice and is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
“We just don’t have those forces in Europe,” Ochmanek said. In addition, he said, the Russians are equipped with what some believe are the world’s best surface-to-air missiles and they don’t hesitate to use heavy artillery.
After eight hours of gaming out various scenarios, “The conclusion was that we are unable to defend the Baltics,” Ochmanek concluded.
What if NATO and the U.S. began making improvements in force structure now — would the results be much different?
“We can defend the capitals, we can present Russia with problems, and we can take away the prospect of a coup de main,” Ochmanek told FP. “But the dynamic remains the same.”
With sequestration-related force cuts that will trim Army troops by 40,000, as well as reductions across the board at the Pentagon, the logistics become even more daunting. Spinning up U.S. battalions and getting them to the war zone would take 30–60 days, and the Russians “can do a lot of damage in that time,” Ochmanek said.
U.S. planners believe that American forces and NATO would eventually take back any territory overrun by Russian forces, but the cost would be high – and the task anything but easy.
NTS Notes: I do love the sad excuses and the usual propaganda bull shit spin that this report tries to do about the Russians in Crimea, Ukraine, and Syria... The truth is of course that Russia has shown NO military 'aggression' against Ukraine at all, and of course Crimea voted overwhelmingly to return to the Russian Federation which they had ever right under international law to do! And of course they are still spinning the tale that Russia is showing aggression in Syria without telling the truth that Russia has been invited into Syria by the Syrian government itself .... But of course you have to love the propaganda!!
I am absolutely not surprised at all by the findings of this report and I will explain why...
Yes, the US supposedly won the "cold war" of 1940's-1990's and Jewish created "Communism" was supposedly halted in its "evil:" tracks... But the world has changed greatly since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, and not to the betterment of the United States itself...
The US have been in a massive tail spin economically since the early 1990's as corporations have off shored all of their jobs and manufacturing to 3rd world (VN: SLAVE LABOR....) nations... The result is that the US does not have the industrial capacity or supremacy that it enjoyed right after the end of the second World War... The facts are simple that if the US was to actually fight a "third World War" against adversaries such as Russia and China, the nation does not have the industrial might it used to have to sustain such a conflict.....
Then we have the massive lie that American weapons are somehow "superior" to anything that Russia and China produces.. It is simply not the case anymore and the biggest proof lies in the horrific plans by the US air force to replace all of their proven and superior fighter aircraft with the terrible F35 Lightning II that is grossly inferior to anything that Russia has in the air right now! In an aerial war against Russian and Chinese fighters, the US air force would be a sitting duck....
And of course we find that many other weapons that Russia is producing right now are vastly superior to anything that the US can produce... The Russians and Chinese do not have the military budget that the United States has, but they build weapons of quality and are not driven by corporations that produce inferior weapons for profit only!
Of course there are other factors that are missed here.. Including the fact that Russia has now shown superiority in both Radar and electronic warfare... People quickly forget the "incident" early last year where the Aegis destroyer "Donald Cook" had its electronic disabled by a single Russian aircraft using the advanced "Khibiny" system in the Black Sea... The US military has no answer for this weapon at all that will leave all of their ships sitting ducks....
The bottom line is that the US military is insane in their thinking that they can actually "win" a conflict against the Russian Federation... The maniacs in the Pentagon are however still hell bent on getting such a war going, and basically once the US starts losing in the field of battle, these lunatics will turn very quickly to the nuclear option and launch nuclear strikes against Russia...The result will be global nuclear war with billions dying in the process...
More to come
N
But I came across the following article today that shows that the psychos in the US military are quickly discovering that a new war against Russia (and very possibly against Russia's ally China) is not the "win win" scenario that they had believed in the past... The article comes from the "National Security News' website, at www.nationalsecurity.news, and is entitled: "As Pentagon Dusts Off War Plans For Russia, Planners Can't Find One Scenario In Which The US Wins", and is definitely a must read by everyone... I have it right here in its entirety and of course my own thoughts and comments to follow:
As Pentagon dusts off war plans for Russia, planners can’t find one scenario in which the U.S. wins
(NationalSecurity.news) A resurgent and aggressive Russia has created new concerns among Pentagon officials, leading them to dust off Cold War-era plans for dealing with Moscow’s improved forces. But when war-gaming long-forgotten scenarios under today’s conditions, Defense Department planners have made a shocking discovery: The U.S. military routinely comes up on the losing end of any conflict with Russian troops, Foreign Policy (FP) reported Monday.To be sure, the Pentagon is always generating contingency plans for every possible scenario – from armed confrontation with Iran and North Korea to stopping zombie attacks (not a joke). As FP notes, those plans are then ranked and honed depending on priority and probability.
Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, conflict with Russia and former Soviet satellite states dropped off the radar and, for the past two decades essentially sat on a shelf gathering dust.
Now, however, as Russia becomes more active in Eastern Europe and more aggressive in Ukraine and Syria, Pentagon planners have begun revisiting old Cold War scenarios, according to several officials in the State and Defense departments, FP reported. Specifically, those plans are being updated “to reflect a new, post-Crimea-annexation geopolitical reality in which Russia is no longer a potential partner, but a potential threat,” the magazine reported online.
“Given the security environment, given the actions of Russia, it has become apparent that we need to make sure to update the plans that we have in response to any potential aggression against any NATO allies,” one senior defense official familiar with the updated plans said.
“Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine made the US dust off its contingency plans,” added Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense for policy and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security. “They were pretty out of date.”
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According to the senior defense official, the new plans are taking two tracks: One has homed in on what the U.S. could do as part of NATO, if Russia were to launch an offensive against an alliance member; the other looks at what actions the U.S. could take outside the NATO umbrella. But both plans, however, focus on Russian incursions into the Baltic States, as this is the most likely scenario.
In addition, planners are not focusing solely on traditional warfare but on so-called “hybrid” tactics Moscow used to infiltrate and take Crimea – seemingly unaffiliated operatives and forces, manufactured protests and, of course, elements of cyberwarfare.
“They are trying to figure out in what circumstances [the U.S. Defense Department] would respond to a cyberattack,” Julie Smith, who until recently served as the vice president’s deputy national security advisor, told FP. “There’s a lively debate on that going on right now.”
Experts say that is a major departure from Cold War-era planning.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the West slowly began to integrate Russia into NATO, the alliance initially formed to counter the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. Indeed, NATO even began absorbing some of the former Warsaw Pact nations. At the same time, the alliance stepped up cooperation and joint training with Moscow.
In 1994, Russia signed on to NATO’s “Partnership for Peace” program, and in 1997 Russia signed an agreement of mutual cooperation with the alliance declaring that the two were no longer adversaries. And while Russia at times voiced displeasure with an expanding NATO, from the West – and from Washington, in particular – everything appeared fairly normal. Moscow even cooperated in allowing U.S. and NATO war materiel bound for Afghanistan to pass through a NATO transit point in Ulyanovsk, Russia.
But following Russia’s war with neighboring Georgia in 2008, things began to change. While NATO slightly altered its plans as related to Russia, the Pentagon did not. In the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, the Pentagon’s office in charge of force planning – which recommends long-term resource allocation – proposed to then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to include contingencies to counter an aggressive Russia, but he refused, FP reported.
“Everyone’s judgment at the time was that Russia is pursuing objectives aligned with ours,” noted David Ochmanek, who, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, ran that office at the time. “Russia’s future looked to be increasingly integrated with the West.”
And Smith, who assisted in devising European and NATO policy at the Pentagon at the time, told FP, “If you asked the military five years ago, ‘Give us a flavor of what you’re thinking about,’ they would’ve said, ‘Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism — and China.’”
Many believed Russia’s response to Georgia was provoked by the latter and more of a one-time thing. But the Crimea and Ukraine – which caught planners off-guard – as well as direct Russian military involvement in Syria, has changed the Pentagon’s thinking.
In June 2014, just one month before leaving his force-planning position at the Pentagon, Air Force officials sought out Ochmanek for insight on the Baltic region and other Russian neighborhoods ahead of President Obama’s visit to Tallinn, Estonia. In addition, the Army sought out an Ochmanek colleague at the Rand Corporation, where Ochmanek also frequented, to run a “table top” war game between a Red (Russia) team and a blue (NATO) team. As FP reports, the scenario was similar to the one that played out in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine: Increased Russian political pressure on Estonia and Latvia (each NATO country sharing borders with Russia and home to sizeable Russian-speaking minorities) followed by the introduction of provocateurs, seizures of government buildings and demonstrations. The question: Would NATO be able to defend those nations?
Check out Cyberwar.news for the latest information on cyber threats
As FP reported:
The results were dispiriting. Given the recent reductions in the defense budgets of NATO member countries and American pullback from the region, Ochmanek says the blue team was outnumbered 2-to-1 in terms of manpower, even if all the US and NATO troops stationed in Europe were dispatched to the Baltics — including the 82nd Airborne , [sic] which is supposed to be ready to go on 24 hours’ notice and is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
“We just don’t have those forces in Europe,” Ochmanek said. In addition, he said, the Russians are equipped with what some believe are the world’s best surface-to-air missiles and they don’t hesitate to use heavy artillery.
After eight hours of gaming out various scenarios, “The conclusion was that we are unable to defend the Baltics,” Ochmanek concluded.
What if NATO and the U.S. began making improvements in force structure now — would the results be much different?
“We can defend the capitals, we can present Russia with problems, and we can take away the prospect of a coup de main,” Ochmanek told FP. “But the dynamic remains the same.”
With sequestration-related force cuts that will trim Army troops by 40,000, as well as reductions across the board at the Pentagon, the logistics become even more daunting. Spinning up U.S. battalions and getting them to the war zone would take 30–60 days, and the Russians “can do a lot of damage in that time,” Ochmanek said.
U.S. planners believe that American forces and NATO would eventually take back any territory overrun by Russian forces, but the cost would be high – and the task anything but easy.
NTS Notes: I do love the sad excuses and the usual propaganda bull shit spin that this report tries to do about the Russians in Crimea, Ukraine, and Syria... The truth is of course that Russia has shown NO military 'aggression' against Ukraine at all, and of course Crimea voted overwhelmingly to return to the Russian Federation which they had ever right under international law to do! And of course they are still spinning the tale that Russia is showing aggression in Syria without telling the truth that Russia has been invited into Syria by the Syrian government itself .... But of course you have to love the propaganda!!
I am absolutely not surprised at all by the findings of this report and I will explain why...
Yes, the US supposedly won the "cold war" of 1940's-1990's and Jewish created "Communism" was supposedly halted in its "evil:" tracks... But the world has changed greatly since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, and not to the betterment of the United States itself...
The US have been in a massive tail spin economically since the early 1990's as corporations have off shored all of their jobs and manufacturing to 3rd world (VN: SLAVE LABOR....) nations... The result is that the US does not have the industrial capacity or supremacy that it enjoyed right after the end of the second World War... The facts are simple that if the US was to actually fight a "third World War" against adversaries such as Russia and China, the nation does not have the industrial might it used to have to sustain such a conflict.....
Then we have the massive lie that American weapons are somehow "superior" to anything that Russia and China produces.. It is simply not the case anymore and the biggest proof lies in the horrific plans by the US air force to replace all of their proven and superior fighter aircraft with the terrible F35 Lightning II that is grossly inferior to anything that Russia has in the air right now! In an aerial war against Russian and Chinese fighters, the US air force would be a sitting duck....
And of course we find that many other weapons that Russia is producing right now are vastly superior to anything that the US can produce... The Russians and Chinese do not have the military budget that the United States has, but they build weapons of quality and are not driven by corporations that produce inferior weapons for profit only!
Of course there are other factors that are missed here.. Including the fact that Russia has now shown superiority in both Radar and electronic warfare... People quickly forget the "incident" early last year where the Aegis destroyer "Donald Cook" had its electronic disabled by a single Russian aircraft using the advanced "Khibiny" system in the Black Sea... The US military has no answer for this weapon at all that will leave all of their ships sitting ducks....
The bottom line is that the US military is insane in their thinking that they can actually "win" a conflict against the Russian Federation... The maniacs in the Pentagon are however still hell bent on getting such a war going, and basically once the US starts losing in the field of battle, these lunatics will turn very quickly to the nuclear option and launch nuclear strikes against Russia...The result will be global nuclear war with billions dying in the process...
More to come
N
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