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Pentagon Fears It’s Not Ready for a War With Putin
The U.S. military has run the numbers on a sustained fight with Moscow, and they do not look good for the American side. By Nancy A. Youssef.
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In an era of declining defense budgets, it's expected to hear things like this. A sustained war with Russia is far less likely to happen now than it was at the height of the cold war. We aren't going back to a 600-ship Navy, no matter how often sabers rattle or the military-industrial complex bleats.
I've been reading the new book "Ghost Fleet," which is a speculative look on this exact story. Yikes.