Why are the militaries of China and the United States not the same as they were 30 years ago?It turned out that the US military had realized the seriousness of the problem. Recently, the American magazine "The National Interest" published an opinion, saying that "the current United States has degenerated too fast, and it is no longer possible to reproduce the Gulf War 30 years ago." So why did you come up with such a view?First of all, from the perspective of the domestic situation, forty percent of adults are currently suffering from obesity, and two percent of the people are or have been addicts, and they implement happy education for the people at the bottom, the general education level is low, and there are many illiterate proportions, and the propaganda of democracy and freedom makes the people unwilling to be restrained, so the United States has many difficulties in conscription.
Economically, due to the restrictions of the Budget Control Act, military spending is not as good as before, and their elite air force has a problem of insufficient training. Compared with the past, the combat effectiveness is even more incomparable. After all, every time the plane takes off, it costs a lot of fuel to burn, shells to fire, and later maintenance. Now many people can already see that the combat effectiveness of the US military is no longer as indestructible as it was in the past. So what exactly is the reason for this?Is it really what that magazine says?
Why is the military strength of the US military so much worse than before?It can be seen from this escort operation in the Red Sea that in the face of the Houthi forces blocking and attacking, the US military is no longer able to act alone to carry out a counterattack, but has to pull more than 30 juniors to form a coalition naval alliance, and there is no actual action to counterattack at present. Although the fact that he is strong on the outside and dry in the middle can be seen now, why does this happen?Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's military reform of the US military mainly runs through three principles: First, the air force is set as the core, the second is to focus on striking at the enemy's military nodes, and the third is to pursue speed in terms of speed.
Until now, this set of "air force victory theory" has also had a great influence, and his set of theories also achieved great success in the Gulf War. When the US coalition forces had only 600,000 troops, the enemy had more than 800,000 troops, but he avoided a head-to-head confrontation with the enemy on land through his superiority in equipment, and instead relied on his superior equipment command links and electronic stations to quickly knock out the enemy's radar, headquarters, and other important nodes, so that the enemy's entire army lost its organizational ability. So what does this theory have to do with the decline in the combat effectiveness of the US military?
Why does the Air Force's winning theory lead to a decline in the combat strength of the US military?The 1991 Gulf War proved the success of the military reform in the 80s of the last century; according to the US military's point of view, the army only cleaned up the battlefield after the fact, and the key to influencing the situation of the war was the air force. But they ignore what role the air force can play when the enemy is engaged in tunnel warfareThirty years ago, U.S. fighter planes could take air supremacy in any war. But now that some major powers have increased their air forces, will they still be sure of this?In their view, the U.S. Army's Army armor not only slowed down the advance, but also wasted logistical capacity.
However, they blindly pursued speed, but ignored the army's capabilities, sacrificing the army's defense and offensive capabilities with rapid response capabilities, and even replacing tanks with extremely low-protection Strett infantry fighting vehicles, which could even penetrate the heavy firepower of guerrillas in the Middle East. It is precisely in the practical application that problems have been discovered, so in the past two years, this kind of military reform has begun to slowly correct deviations. It is precisely from the beginning of the Gulf War that China realized the inadequacy of its own equipment, vigorously developed its air force and navy, and at the same time retained the army's ability to attack fortified positions, so the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and US armies today is very different from that of more than 30 years ago.