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Wen | Shi Qianfeng
Editor|Shi Qianfeng
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"The United States is powerful, and no country in the world can defeat the United States, including China."
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has become a veritable boss, whether in terms of soft power such as economy, science and technology, or a strong military foundation, the United States has long been in the position of "one family".
In April this year, when Sino-US relations continued to deteriorate, the US Secretary of Defense also specially announced that the United States has now entered a state of first-level readiness, when the 800,000 well-trained US troops will be assembled at the fastest speed and deployed to countries around the world in a short period of time.
To put it bluntly, the preparation of the United States is to warn those countries that are contrary to the United States, especially China, and after the United States released a signal of "first-level preparation", military experts in the United States and other countries began to predict that no matter which country the United States fights, it will have absolute military superiority, and no country can defeat the United States.
Is that really the case? After entering the first level of preparation, is the United States really invincible?
The world's first "confidence"
In terms of military strength, we have to admit that the United States is indeed in a leading position.
Among the military expenditures of countries around the world, the United States spends the highest every year, it invests a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop military technology, and with the blessing of huge funds, the military progress of the United States can shock countries every year, especially in the innovation of weapons and equipment.
On the eve of the Gulf War between the United States and Iraq in the last century, Iraq prided itself on ranking fourth in the world in terms of strength, although there was a certain gap between the United States and the United States, but if it really used force, then who lost and who won may not be certain, and the United States may even fall behind.
How ruthless the words were put before the war, how badly they were beaten in the war, this sentence is most appropriate for Iraq at that time.
The United States is the first country in the world to develop precision guided weapons and put them into military readiness, when the missile weapons appeared, many countries were trembling, not for anything else, just because the power of the missile weapons is too great, once the United States uses missile weapons in wartime, the chance of the other side winning is almost 0.
And Iraq, relying on frequent provocations against the United States, successfully elected this "lucky one".
The United States combines missile weapons with original positioning technology, so that the United States only needs to sit safely at home to be able to put missile weapons into Iraq thousands of miles away, where Iraq is still discussing countermeasures to deal with the war.
From talking wildly to shutting up Iraq, it took only two months for the United States, and two months later, Iraq surrendered with a gray hand, similar to the words "the United States or defeated its subordinates", and did not dare to say a word.
After the war in Iraq, the United States began to reorganize its military and gradually shifted its focus from developing large weapons and equipment with strong deterrence to developing small weapons that were easy to fight.
Among the small arms developed in the United States, the most famous is the "Stinger air defense missile", the weight of this missile is only 15 kilograms, compared with large weapons is more conducive to soldiers to carry, and the launch process will not be as complicated as large weapons, usually two people can form a launch group, installed after the installation can project 6 missiles at one time.
However, to say that this missile really opened up its reputation internationally, it is necessary to mention the unexpected battle between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
In the 80s of last century, the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan was on the verge, the Soviet Union was the strongest country in the world, although Afghanistan's military strength was also considerable, and it was backed by the United States, but if it really wanted to fight a war with the Soviet Union, it would inevitably fall behind.
However, the results were unexpected!
Afghanistan took the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles provided by the United States and wantonly attacked Soviet fighters and aircraft, and in the end the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses, and Afghanistan won under the "protection" of the United States!
You must know that Afghanistan's opponent is the military power Soviet Union, which can make the Soviet Union a defeated general, which is enough to see how terrifying the power of US military weapons is!
In addition, in the second Gulf War, the United States also fully demonstrated the deterrent power of ground-penetrating missiles, which are even comparable to nuclear weapons.
At that time, the United States originally wanted to bomb the Iraqi military base, but one accidentally dropped the ground-drilling missile into a bomb shelter, and the bomb shelter was full of innocent ordinary people, and before they could react and escape, they were all killed with the missile attack.
It is worth mentioning that due to the deterrent power of missiles, more than a thousand innocent people lost their lives and their bodies could not be found, almost all of them were evaporated, and only the collapsed bomb shelter could prove that a brutal killing was indeed carried out here.
After the incident, Iraq was extremely angry and immediately exposed the crimes of the United States to the international community, but the United States did not take them seriously at all, and it had enough confidence in its heart to fight back.
Therefore, in the face of the international community's crusade, the United States only said lightly that "the place was blown up wrong", and after this remark, no matter how Iraq made trouble, the United States ignored it.
Why has the United States been so prosperous?
Since the last century, the military strength of the United States has occupied an absolutely strong position, and this is inseparable from the fact that the United States has continued to invest a lot of money in military construction for many years.
As early as 2012, the United States invested more than $700 billion in military spending, and then from last year's data, the United States has reached $877 billion, just listening to this figure many people may not have a concept, but the United States military expenditure of a country, enough to account for more than forty percent of the total global military expenditure!
And the United States also has a characteristic, as the world's number one power, but he prefers to do some things that are not on the table, the most typical is "gangs and factions", all kinds of small countries are included, enjoy the appearance of countless small countries subservient to him.
Although the United States has always praised itself as the "world policeman" under the blessing of strong strength, from the perspective of what the United States does, his so-called "world policeman" is to frequently interfere in other countries' internal affairs, and when participating, there is a group of younger brothers behind the United States to work together.
In the second Gulf War, what appeared to be a dispute between Iraq and the United States, in fact, 34 countries except the United States, all followed the United States and participated in the struggle; It was the same in the Kosovo War, where the United States did not clash with Yugoslavia alone, but pulled in NATO troops.
In the near future, in order to contain China's development, the United States has mostly not taken the initiative itself, but wants to let Japan, South Korea and other countries that have long been in conflict with China take the lead.
The United States has all kinds of military equipment, in addition to some lethal weapons, the United States also has a variety of auxiliary combat weapons and equipment, transportation materials and military equipment aircraft mainly include Galaxy C-5M transport aircraft, C-130 Hercules strategic transport aircraft, C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft three types, of which the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft is the strongest, ranking first in the world.
From the perspective of US naval equipment, compared with air and land combat, the United States is better at maritime operations, which can be seen from the bandit logic that American experts previously clamoured - China and the United States must not attack US aircraft carriers in the event of a war.
It is precisely because of this that the US naval power is extremely strong, he has the largest load of sea transport ships, and the transportation of diversified parties, including mobile landing platforms, support ships and dozens of other means of transportation, once a war, such a broad transportation channel as the United States, it is difficult to have a shortage of materials.
What's more, the United States is not limited to the use of military ships when transporting materials, civilian ships are generally requisitioned by the United States, although the safety of civilian ships is not guaranteed, but its loading capacity is extremely large, World War II until the United States-Vietnam conflict, the United States will requisition civilian ships to transport military personnel have all kinds of military equipment.
The advanced military equipment and the rapid accumulation and combat capabilities of the army make the United States not arrogant?
However, although the United States is arrogant, it has also suffered a lot because of excessive self-confidence.
The most typical example here is the Vietnam War, because China and Vietnam are close, in order to prevent the United States and Vietnam from fighting China in the war, so China specially issued a warning at that time that the United States must have a degree and cannot cross the 17-degree defense line.
The United States would certainly ignore China's warnings, but because of its defeat in the Korean War, the United States listened to China's words for fear of history repeating itself, and did not dare to enter the core of Vietnam's war at the 17th parallel.
And Vietnam has long sent guerrillas to confront the United States around the 17th parallel, and as soon as it provokes the United States, it quickly drills back within the 17th parallel, because he expects that the United States will not dare to cross.
As a result, the war that could have been won quickly was dragged on longer and longer, and the American army was also depleted, so it had to reluctantly withdraw from Vietnam and return home.
In the Iraq war, the United States claimed that Iraq had highly lethal military weapons and used this as an excuse to carry out large-scale aggression against Iraq, but until the United States overthrew the Iraqi regime, no traces of lethal weapons were found.
Of course, the United States does not want to give up so easily, he still wants to kill and seize the territory of Iraq, but after there is no excuse to fight, the United States began to usher in a long-term surprise attack in Iraq, coupled with the Iraqi people's anger at the United States, in desperation, the United States had to stop further aggression against Iraq.
The strength of the United States is indeed very strong, and it is the world's first existence so far, but the United States is not a god, does not have the ability to attack and destroy everything, not to mention with the rapid changes in the international situation and the rapid rise of China, the United States has long been unable to continue to unscrupulously implement hegemonism.
epilogue
The strength of the US military is the Navy and Air Force, as well as the application of various high-tech equipment, which are their advantages and disadvantages at the same time.
The invasion of the Korean Peninsula, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Afghan War have fully proved that without the support of high-tech equipment and absolutely superior equipment, the US military is not much stronger than the armies of other countries in the field of traditional operations.
Because their will to fight, that is, there is no will to die, the brave win when they meet on a narrow road, and the soldiers on the battlefield fight for morale, and the fight is who is not afraid of death!
During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, China's equipment was simply the gap between children and adults compared with the US military, but China was able to achieve the final victory, which fully demonstrates the importance of the will to fight, and China has a firm will to fight!