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anonymous says

US forces could potentially lose next war to Russia or China, warns sobering Rand report

Well the last one we won was against Japan. We nuked a country that didn't have nukes...Good thing China and Russia don't have nukes either. Umm Wait...uhh forget it.

Thanks Obama!

There will be no war with Russia and China. Neither USA, Russia, or China are interested in committing suicide.
It's a silly concept.

Well until Liberals can get their History straight, then I can't take them serious. We've never had a direct war with Russia and never had any War with China.
Unless you consider trade wars and sanctions war.

anonymous says

U.S. forces must expect to be engaged in the struggle with Salafist-jihadi groups....

until the dead charlatan Mohamed and his followers' hateful fraud of Islam is finally rejected.

FTFY.

As for the non-Islamic states on the list, I would not recommend war especially at a time when much of our economy depends on electronic transactions that could be easily disrupted from anywhere using the modern form of counterfeiting, i.e. identity theft. Markets are priced to perfection assuming supply chains continue to function. State actors know enough about computer hacking to cause serious pain while maintaining deniability.

War between the great powers is just so 20th century.

In a world that’s increasingly interconnected, and wealthier for being so, we can and should seek to build relationships instead of preparing for war, especially when the other nation is both reasonable and powerful! There’s no reason for saber rattling between us and China or Russia or India or any of the other nations, except possibly for North Korea which is a hot mess with an insane dictator, nuclear weapons, and an inferiority complex. Oh, and they’ll invade South Korea immediately should we decide to wash our hands of the region and leave.

War between any 21st century countries will occur via keyboard.
Run Kaspersky on your systems at your peril...

Blue screen = casualty of war.

Quigley says

There’s no reason for saber rattling between us and China or Russia or India

Tell this to the Russian fucks who think they are entitled to violate long-standing international treaties with impunity and then start saber-rattling to scare everybody into looking the other way. Worked pretty good on Obama though.

Quigley says

There’s no reason for saber rattling between us and China or Russia or India or any of the other nations

Sure there is. It sells ad space on the tv and gives the pols a chance to act important.

ALL Rand reports are sobering. Fear mongering is how they stay in business.