Patrick Tucker — Pentagon Is Spooked From What It Has Seen From Russia in Donbass

Why the US is unlikely to risk a land war with Russia in eastern Europe.

This article is also a summary of the state of the art in Russian weapons development and why the US is concerned — the US depends on its tech edge and that is evaporating based on analysis of Russian weaponry and Russian "volunteers" operating in Donbass. This is not even the regular Russian military that the US would be dealing with in a war in eastern Europe, and air power is not in play. This is strictly infantry — "boots on the ground."

The article also implies a lot about the scale of the current arms race and military expenditure in the future to meet growing high tech threats. There is going to be more push to switch US social spending to military speeding to meet the threat from both Russia and China while maintaining "financial discipline."

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Pentagon Is Spooked From What It Has Seen From Russia in Donbass

Patrick Tucker

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