According to the Global Times International Edition quoted by the US "military" website reported that the current US military generally believes that with the intensification of the United States and China's ideas and global conflicts of interest, the two countries may inevitably have to fight, and the final decision of the war is not the air force and navy, but the army, the reason is that the high-tech weapons assembled by the major powers fighting the air and navy will be quickly consumed, and finally can only fight the army's "close combat", some military leaders of the US Congress emphasize that "the US Army is still in a leading position in many technologies", and the news came out The Chinese netizens in the comment area laughed directly, hoping that the US Army would try it as soon as possible to see if this time it could escape like Chosin Lake.
Figure 1 The U.S. Army is the worst of all services
In fact, although the US military is still the most powerful military force in the world at present, the main strengths of the US military are in the navy and air force, the army and the marine corps basically belong to cleaning the battlefield and maintaining public order, and there is not much combat effectiveness, which is inseparable from the US military tradition and the national strategy.
From the military tradition, the U.S. Army has a high degree of liberal proliferation characteristics, the original U.S. Army is the Continental Army established in the War of Independence, these armies basically belong to the united forces of militias under the rule of small warlords everywhere, after the end of the War of Independence, it was disbanded, and then the United States established a federal state system to complete the construction of the state from the bottom up, the power of the federal government is seriously constrained, the military power is also the responsibility of the states, and when large-scale operations are needed, they are combined to form the "United States Army". It has never departed from the nature of the militia, and its combat effectiveness can be imagined naturally. But as the United States and Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans war conflicts become more and more intense, this wartime formation, after the dissolution of the military system gradually can not keep up with the intensity of the war and the frequency of occurrence, so the U.S. federal government began to recruit volunteers, became a federal government can directly administer, at any time to mobilize the troops, but this force is relatively small, the last stage of the First World War, the Americans in a timely manner to participate in the war to insert a knife to seize the greatest interests, but most of the U.S. Army sent to Europe is also a state militia, The combat effectiveness was extremely strong, and it was wiped out by a large number of German army formations, and it was only by relying on strong national strength to fund the British and French armies to play a war of attrition, and only defeated Germany. After the end of World War I, in view of the current situation of the combat effectiveness of the US military in World War I, in 1920, the United States officially formed the US Army force through the Department of Defense Act, and divided it into three parts: the regular army, the National Guard and the reserve, of which the regular army was developed from the volunteers of the former federal government, implementing a compulsory military service system, directly under the dispatch of the federal government, and the National Guard was still a state militia, but because of the lack of training, different command powers, and tactical rigidity, the combat effectiveness of the US Army was still not improved, in World War II, The Japanese surrendered in Southeast Asia on a large scale and were wiped out in the European battlefield, and there were no particularly brilliant combat operations. In fact, throughout the history of the U.S. Army, apart from winning the battle against Mexico and Iraq, it has not won any strong opponents, and has always been despised by the traditional European army powers.
Figure 2 For a long time, the U.S. Army was dominated by militias
From the perspective of national strategy, the United States is a maritime power, the mainland is in the east and west of the two oceans, the north and south of the geographical location of no strong enemies, there is no need to develop a strong army to defend the country, the United States as a whole continues the British "continental checks and balances" strategy, that is, control the sea, the use of strategic balance to provoke contradictions between the countries of Eurasia, war and consumption, maintain their own world hegemony, from the perspective of World War I and World War II, the UNITED States Army is playing a role of inserting a knife at a critical moment, not from the beginning to the end of the once, Like the World War II Soviet-German battlefield large-scale army group operation for the U.S. Army, neither enough equipment and strength nor command ability, so any country with a good enough army training level can make the Americans suffer, in the Korean War, the volunteer army in the logistics, equipment comprehensively backward of the U.S. army, five wars and five victories from the Yalu River to the Three Eighth Front, the Korean People's Army also once repelled the Americans from the 38th line to the vicinity of Busan, the Vietnam War, the Americans fought hard for 10 years, died 50,000, fought a lonely, Finally, gray and slippery ran back to China.
It is precisely because the U.S. Army has always been so crotch-pulling, so they have never been willing to fight alone, but rely on the fire cover, logistical support, and mobile transportation capabilities of the Air Force and naval aviation to crush the opponent, in the Gulf War, the Iraqi army was mainly wiped out by the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and the Army combat operation lasted only 100 hours, mainly to clean up the mess. In the Iraq War, all routes of the U.S. Army's maneuvers were cleared by the U.S. Air Force and Navy's advance fire, and then the aircraft were sent to escort the armored convoys, which made a relatively good record. However, we see that once the U.S. Army loses the aviation fire support, it is very bad, such as in the late Iraq War and during the guerrilla war in Afghanistan, the guerrillas made full use of the terrain, weather and camouflage to hide themselves, adopted the tactics of rapid engagement and completed the escape, so that the U.S. Army did not have time to call for aircraft support, thus eating countless things, and finally fleeing back to the country.
Figure 3 The Gulf War was mainly fought by air and navy
From the perspective of the equipment of the US Army, there are also serious shortcomings, one is that there is a serious shortage of field anti-aircraft firepower, and the other is that the number of artillery is obviously insufficient, because the US Army has never felt that it will lose its air superiority, and it has always expected the Air Force to provide enough fire support. In fact, in the past few decades, the US Army has never been doing its job properly, has not properly practiced the combat subjects of army group groups, but has been entangled with the guerrillas all day long, practicing anti-terrorism, and training is also anti-terrorism.
The US media may be right, in the end, the Us and Chinese armies will win the battle, and then the US military can collectively surrender.