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The U.S. Army War College* has released a brief overview of "Lessons from the War in Ukraine".
(press.armywarcollege.edu)
You just gotta love how US military say everything openly and in their reports. In particular, it has a forecast of US casualties and mobilization reserves in a conflict of this level.
Thesis:
- military doctors project a [KIA and WIA] casualty rate for the US Armed Forces of 3,600\day.
- The combat replenishment rate is 25% or 800 troops per day.
- In 20 years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. has lost about 50,000 people.
In a conflict of the Ukrainian level, the U.S. would suffer such losses in 2 weeks.
- The recruitment shortage is a major problem.
- every soldier not recruited today is a strategic mobility asset [IRR or reservists] that the US will not have in 2031**
- IRR was 700K in 1973, 450K in 1994, now at 76K.
- These numbers will not make up for the projected losses.
- the 70's concept of contract forces is outdated and does not fit the current operational environment.
- The needs of the U.S. Armed Forces for a Ukrainian-level war require a transition to conscription.
I'm sure that will be popular
They don't give a fuck imo, the US could start building gas chambers, the liberals of the world would still call them a democracy that failed to elect the good president
What, are you from 2016? They can't fail even that now. It's Russian or Chinese meddling in their elections.
They've already forgotten all about the concentration camps at the border now that Sleepy Joe's in power.
if you start making peoples sons die in foreign wars they will start caring. People don't care because they have more to loose by going against the system. That's too far
The ones on the Mexican border that inspired Hitler aren't there anymore?
Unironic accelerationism ftw