Losing Military Supremacy
The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
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Andrei Martyanov
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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 hasn't won a single war against a technologically inferior, but mentally tough, enemy. The technological dimension of American "strategy" 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 way - intellectually, economically, militarily, or culturally - to face a reality which was hidden for the last 70-plus 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 makers' minds.
This book explores the dramatic difference between the Russian and US approach to warfare, which manifests itself across the whole spectrum of activities from art and the economy to the respective national cultures; illustrates the fact that Russian economic, military, and cultural realities and power are no longer what American "elites" think they are by addressing Russia's new and elevated capacities in the areas of traditional warfare, as well as cyberwarfare and space; and studies several ways in-depth in which the US can simply stumble into conflict with Russia and what must be done to avoid it.
Martyanov's former Soviet military background enables deep insight into the fundamental issues of warfare and military power as a function of national power-assessed correctly, not through the lens of Wall Street "economic" 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.
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- bizuser
- 25-10-21
Focus on Russia misses Non US contributions
This book addresses the historic errors and omissions that have vilified Russia really well. This is book should be compulsory reading for Neo-cons and educated Americans as well as both American and European staff colleges. He misses Great Britain’s part in the downfall of Napoleon but Russia’s defeat of napoleons army clearly helped attrition of the grand armee.
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- David O'Reilly
- 01-11-21
A complete eye opener
If a book could encapsulate the present state and status of the worlds military and the constant underestimation of Russia roll in history and her presence in the new world order this book does it. A must for any student of history and a definite must for those whose ignorance of history and the current situation in the world could learn much from this brilliant narrative.
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- ApollonianTadzio
- 17-02-24
Propaganda, and interesting in that capacity
The author's central thesis is that the US, having internalised the false narrative that it was the principal military contributor to victory in WW2, has developed an increasingly distorted perception of its military capabilities and of the nature of full-scale armed conflict, and that this false self-perception now poses a great danger to American interests in the supposedly inevitable "Multipolar World".
There is clearly some truth to that thesis, even in the particular criticisms of certain American military doctrines and of the American education system and economy, but this is not an objective examination of the US's real military capacity or of 20th century history, but rather essentially a pro-Putin polemic against the "Russophobic" West.
There is real value here for those who want to understand the mainstream Russian view of 20th century history and the relationship between Russia and the US/Europe in the post-Soviet era, but the content can't be accepted uncritically.
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- MM Futura
- 12-08-22
This has become a comedy due to recent events :)
This book has aged like rotten fetid milk.... and has now become an unintentional comedy.
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- Luca Nicotra
- 12-08-22
Extremely insightful
The author does and excellent job at showing that the balance of power between Russia and USA is not quite what the media makes it to be.
It shatters so many myths about the US and Russia that it changes the way you look at the world.
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- MICHELLE CARTWRIGHT
- 15-07-22
excellent a must read
www3 will be won by Russia hands down, this an excellent book on Russia^s military power and the US delusion of their own supremacy
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- Anonymous User
- 11-06-22
insightful
Eye opening view on modern military comparison between the real and the perceived and it's ramifications related to geopolitics.
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- FrenchieInLondon
- 26-02-24
Written in 2018, proven painfully accurate by today in 2024.
This book was maybe unknowingly foreshadowing the complete humiliation of the entire NATO armies in Ukraine, with the now very obvious decline of the collective West, on all aspects of civilisation: morally, religiously, culturally, economically, industrially, scientifically, militarily…
The racist supremacist colonialist ideology of the West is finally after hundreds of years of genocides all over the world, and an accumulated hundreds of millions of deaths over that period, showing the signs of coming to an end!
Maybe the world can finally be rid of their ideological madness, and enjoy some real fruitful human progress.
Unfortunately there’s still a lot of people who will die and suffer while the collapse unfolds. I pray Palestine doesn’t suffer the fate of the native americans.
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- Pippa
- 18-05-22
state sponsored
some interesting facts, if you can get past the wholesale russia bias and propaganda
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- Apollon
- 17-05-24
A fascinating education
I learned so much from this book from both a technical perspective and a historical view.
It makes for a sobering and enlightened understanding that you will never hear about in legacy western media.
If you are bold enough to want to know more than what is spewed on western media sources have a listen and gain an education.
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