Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic

Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. Andrei Martyanov's book is an absolute 'must read' for any person wanting to understand the reality of modern warfare and super-power competition. THE SAKER While exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of their conviction and its global ramifications are. This view of its exceptionalism has led the US to grossly misinterpretâ€”sometimes deliberatelyâ€”the causative factors of key events of the past two centuries. Accordingly, the wrong conclusions have been derived, and very wrong lessons learned. Nowhere has this been more manifest than in American military thought and its actual application of military power. Time after time the American military has failed to match lofty declarations about its superiority, producing instead a mediocre record of military accomplishments. Starting from the Korean War the United States hasnâ€™t won a single war against a technologically inferior, but mentally tough enemy. The technological dimension of American â€œstrategyâ€ has completely overshadowed any concern with the social, cultural, operational and even tactical requirements of military (and political) conflict. With a new Cold War with Russia emerging, the United States enters a new period of geopolitical turbulence completely unprepared in any meaningful wayâ€”intellectually, economically, militarily or culturallyâ€”to face a reality which was hidden for the last 70+ years behind the curtain of never-ending Chalabi moments and a strategic delusion concerning Russia, whose history the US viewed through a Solzhenitsified caricature kept alive by a powerful neocon lobby, which even today dominates US policy makersâ€™ minds. Martyanovâ€™s former Soviet military background enables deep insight into the fundamental issues of warfare and military power as a function of national powerâ€”assessed correctly, not through the lens of Wall Street â€œeconomicâ€ indices and a FIRE economy, but through the numbers of enclosed technological cycles and culture, much of which has been shaped in Russia by continental warfare and which is practically absent in the US.
Country USA
Manufacturer Clarity Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-06-04
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Clarity Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-06-04
Format	Kindle eBook

Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

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