Posted on Sep 22, 2015
Are we returning to Cold War tactics or will we see a conflict in the near future?
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All around us there are signs of a return to a cold war relationship with Russia and China. The U.S., Russia and China have been flexing their military muscles. In the last couple of years there have been multiple military moves which seemed to be aimed at testing the limits of each other and or as trying to provoke each other.
Russia and China more often than not deny that they participated in some of these actions, while U.S. plane crews take photos of Chinese aircraft.
Provocation after provocation is leading to greater tensions between the countries. Tensions grow over cyber hacking, missile placement, close air encounters and other actions.
*Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. navy plane.
*Chinese beef up naval patrols in the South China Sea.
*Chinese established a air defense in the East China Sea because of a territorial clash with Japan.
*Chinese cyber attacks.
*Russia bullies Ukraine and pushes it's claims up to the North Pole.
*Russia annexes Crimea.
*Russia shifted several of it's nuclear capable, long range missiles to a territory near Poland
*Russia reinforces it's FOB in Syria
*The U.S. bases four warships in Singapore.
*American tanks move across Europe
* US military maneuvers in Georgia
* American troops landing in Ukraine
Are we on a course to return to cold war policy or for a military conflict? Are we again entering into a game of chicken?
What are your thoughts?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/china-russia-flex-muscles-in-increasing-number-of-close-calls-with-us-aircraft/2014/10/04/a398731c-4b21-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html
Russia and China more often than not deny that they participated in some of these actions, while U.S. plane crews take photos of Chinese aircraft.
Provocation after provocation is leading to greater tensions between the countries. Tensions grow over cyber hacking, missile placement, close air encounters and other actions.
*Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a U.S. navy plane.
*Chinese beef up naval patrols in the South China Sea.
*Chinese established a air defense in the East China Sea because of a territorial clash with Japan.
*Chinese cyber attacks.
*Russia bullies Ukraine and pushes it's claims up to the North Pole.
*Russia annexes Crimea.
*Russia shifted several of it's nuclear capable, long range missiles to a territory near Poland
*Russia reinforces it's FOB in Syria
*The U.S. bases four warships in Singapore.
*American tanks move across Europe
* US military maneuvers in Georgia
* American troops landing in Ukraine
Are we on a course to return to cold war policy or for a military conflict? Are we again entering into a game of chicken?
What are your thoughts?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/china-russia-flex-muscles-in-increasing-number-of-close-calls-with-us-aircraft/2014/10/04/a398731c-4b21-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html
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SSG Kelly Ferguson
No, this will be more Urbanized fighting but if it brought to us our civil war tactics with our morden elements will save us all
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CPT (Join to see) We are not in a Cold War. There is no imminent threat of destruction of ours or another nation. If we did have a run in with either Russia or China and somebody splashed the others plane nobody is going to be launching missiles. The Russians don't have the cash to withstand a Cold War and frankly we don't either. If we did start a cold war with anybody we better learn Mandarin real quick because it will be our native language.
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Power 'wants' to be diffuse. When it is concentrated other powers attempt to counter balance. Multipolar systems have lots of shifting alliances, Bipolar systems all involve small powers being leveraged by the two major powers to counterbalance eachother. Unipolar involve only the hegemon exerting power at will on vastly less capable smaller players. The world was multipolar in the 1900s. It shifted from multipolar to bipolar somewhere around 1945. It went Uniploar in the 1980s. It's going back toward bipolar, maybe multipolar.
This is natural. But also a little scary to people who have never experienced it (us). Far scarier? Most wars happen when a power that has held significantly more power in a balance with a rival recognizes a rival is gaining and things striking first can change this.
This is natural. But also a little scary to people who have never experienced it (us). Far scarier? Most wars happen when a power that has held significantly more power in a balance with a rival recognizes a rival is gaining and things striking first can change this.
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