“The Pentagon’s most senior planners are challenging the longstanding strategy that requires the armed forces to be prepared to fight two major wars at a time,” the New York Times reports.
The unusual mission in Iraq, which could last for years, has not just taken the slot for one of the two wars; it has upended the central concept of the two-war model…
After years of saying American forces were sufficient for a two-war strategy, “we’ve come to the realization that we’re not,” said another Defense Department official involved in the deliberations, who was granted anonymity because he could not otherwise discuss the talks, which are classified. “It’s coming to grips with reality.“
Senior leaders are trying to develop strategies that will do a better job of addressing the requirements of antiterrorism and domestic defense, while acknowledging that future American wars will most likely be irregular — against urban guerrillas and insurgents — rather than conventional.
It really is simple; hidden-in-plain-sight. ANY potential REAL threat to American might, must negate carrier threats and cripple Western economies, at the same time. How? The two most likely candidates at the moment are Iran and North Korea. These have been working hand in hand, both are developing nuclear weapons, they are sharing long range missile development. Both are playing the “talks” routine while they continue to build up their weapons capabilities.
How best to use them? First, use quiet electric diesel subs and threats of nuclear mines to fend off carrier attack, threaten neighbors with potential missile attack; and then sink a few tankers to close down the Hormuz straits and Mulacca straits to oil flow to cripple European and Japanes/Tiawan economies (hence the U.S.‘s).
Result will be catostrophic.
Note that I write “will be”.