How America Would Have Invaded Canada
What if the United States and United Kingdom had instead gone to war in the spring of 1921?
Here s What You Need To Remember: The biggest winner of such a war would not have been Washington, Ottawa, or London - it would have been Tokyo, which would have been free to gleefully expand across the Pacific with no real check on its power.
The end of a war only rarely settles the central questions that started the conflict. Indeed, many wars do not “end” in the traditional sense; World War II, for example, stretched on for years in parts of Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific.
America Ruled the World in the 1990s - But it Doesn t Anymore
Moving forward, the U.S. military will need to navigate a world in which it enjoys advantages that are merely large, but not overwhelming. That’s not such a bad place to be.
Here s What You Need To Remember: In the 1990s, America was the world s only superpower, leaps and bounds ahead of any rivals. This world no longer exists. It s no one s fault ; it s simply that other powers are catching up.
Last week, Air Force General Frank Gorenc argued that the airpower advantage the United States has enjoyed over Russia and China is shrinking. This warning comes as part of a deluge of commentary on the waning international position of the United States. The U.S. military, it would seem, is at risk of no longer being able to go where it wants, and do what it wants to whomever it wants. Diplomatically, the United States has struggled, as of late, to assemble “coalitions of the willing” interested in following Washin
The B-1B Lancer Isn t Going Anywhere
“The B-1B community has a proven history of lethality from the Cold War to the war on terrorism, and now we are proving ourselves once again at the tactical and strategic levels with the next phase of global operations.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The B-1B program is old, but has avoided retirement for one simple reason - it can still carry out its mission, and there doesn t seem to be anything wrong with it.
Today there are sixty-two B-1B Lancer bombers in service, and while the aircraft are expected to be replaced by the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider beginning in 2025, there have been continuing efforts to update and upgrade the aging warbird.
The Soviet military combined grandiose vision and global aspiration with a defense-industrial base that had severe limitations.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Some of these weapons would have dominated the battlefield - if the cash-strapped Soviet state could have afforded them. On the other hand, some would have likely been a tremendous waste of already-limited resources.
For nearly seven decades, the defense-industrial complex of the Soviet Union went toe-to-toe with the best firms that the West had to offer. In some cases, it surprised the West with cheap, innovative, effective systems. In others, it could barely manage to put together aircraft that could remain in the air, and ships that could stay at sea.
How Russia Outclasses America in the Arctic
The legacy systems of the Cold War have left Russia well prepared for competition over the Arctic.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Russia s Arctic forces are old and rusting - and still better than anything America can throw at them.
Over the past decade, nations bordering on the Arctic have found themselves with a big new security problem. The melting of the arctic ice has opened up shipping lanes and opportunities for the exploitation for undersea resources, but has also exposed vulnerabilities for countries that have long considered their northern frontier secure.