Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
Jun 2018 · SCB Distributors
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"Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost
the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia,
which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded
not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many
key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric
submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and
many others. Andrei Martyanov's book is an absolute 'must read'
for any person wanting to understand the reality of modern warfare
and super-power competition."
THE SAKER
While exceptionalism is not unique to
America, the intensity of their conviction and its global
ramifications are. This view of its exceptionalism has led the US to
grossly misinterpret—sometimes deliberately—the causative
factors of key events of the past two centuries. Accordingly, the
wrong conclusions have been derived, and very wrong lessons
learned. Nowhere has this been more manifest than in American
military thought and its actual application of military power.
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+ 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.
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.
the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia,
which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded
not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many
key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric
submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and
many others. Andrei Martyanov's book is an absolute 'must read'
for any person wanting to understand the reality of modern warfare
and super-power competition."
THE SAKER
While exceptionalism is not unique to
America, the intensity of their conviction and its global
ramifications are. This view of its exceptionalism has led the US to
grossly misinterpret—sometimes deliberately—the causative
factors of key events of the past two centuries. Accordingly, the
wrong conclusions have been derived, and very wrong lessons
learned. Nowhere has this been more manifest than in American
military thought and its actual application of military power.
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+ 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.
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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An outstanding book that I wish every American would read. Tons of astonishing info in this book
About the author
ANDREI MARTYANOV is an expert on Russian military and naval issues. He was born in Baku, USSR in 1963. He graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He took part in the events in the Caucasus which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he currently works as Laboratory Director in a commercial aerospace group. He is a frequent blogger on the US Naval Institute Blog.
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