Time upon time the American military has didn’t match lofty declarations on the subject of its superiority, producing instead a mediocre record of military accomplishments. Beginning with the Korean Battle america hasn’t won an individual war against a technologically second-rate, but mentally difficult enemy. The technological sizing of American ‘strategy’ has totally overshadowed any nervous about the social, ethnic, operational, and even tactical requirements of armed forces (and politics) conflict..Read More about Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Preparation With a fresh cold battle with Russia emerging, the United States enters a new period of geopolitical turbulence completely unprepared in any meaningful way-intellectually, economically, militarily, or culturally-to encounter a reality that was hidden going back seventy-plus years in back of the drape of never-ending Chalabi occasions and a proper delusion concerning Russia, whose background the US viewed through a Solzhenitsified caricature kept alive by a powerful neocon lobby, which right now dominates US policy makers’ minds.

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explores the dramatic difference between the Russian and US approach to warfare, which manifests itself over the whole spectral range of activities from art and the economy, to the respective national cultures;illustrates the fact that Russian economic, military, and cultural realities and force are no more what American ‘elites’ believe they may be by addressing Russia’s new and elevated capacities in the areas of traditional warfare as well as cyberwarfare and space; and research in depth many ways in which the united states can merely stumble into turmoil with Russia and what must be done to avoid it.Martyanov’s ex – Soviet military history enables deep insight in to the fundamental problems of warfare and armed forces power like a function of country wide power-assessed properly, not through the zoom lens of Wall Street ‘economic’ indices and a FIRE economy, but through the numbers of enclosed technological cycles and tradition, much of which has been shaped in Russia by continental warfare and which is practically absent in the US.