US losses WWIII simulations
Not a good result for the home team.
America is use to low casualty counts in our various wars against inferior nations and terrorists. A near-peer conflict will not be like those conflicts.In simulated World War III scenarios, the U.S. continues to lose against Russia and China, two top war planners warned last week. “In our games, when we fight Russia and China, blue gets its ass handed to it" RAND analyst David Ochmanek said Thursday.
RAND's wargames show how US Armed Forces - colored blue on wargame maps - experience the most substantial losses in one scenario after another and still can't thwart Russia or China - which predictably is red - from accomplishing their objectives: annihilating Western forces.
"We lose a lot of people. We lose a lot of equipment. We usually fail to achieve our objective of preventing aggression by the adversary," he warned.
In the next military conflict, which some believe may come as soon as the mid-2020s, all five battlefield domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, will be heavily contested, suggesting the U.S. could have a difficult time in achieving superiority as it has in prior conflicts.
F-35s were shown to be vulnerable on the ground, but not so much in the air. Are surface fleet was shown to be extremely vulnerable.
Command and Control was also seen as a weak link. However, the US military has shown in the past that lower units can continue the fight without micro-management from above.
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