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US Military Dusts Off Decades-Old 'Readiness' Plans for Russia
""We're looking inside our own readiness models to look at things that we haven't had to look at for 20 years,
huh?! Is "reactive" part of the "leading from behind" thingie?
I suspect we are going to be living is a state of "surprise" for some time forward.
frankly, about basing and lines of communication and sea lanes," Gen. Martin Dempsey, America's top military officer, said at the Aspen Security Forum Thursday evening. "What the military does when faced with these crises is -- our job is preparedness, deterrence and readiness."
Precisely. I find it very hard to believe nobody has war-gamed Russia for two full decades. This strikes me more as posturing for Putin's benefit, not to mention the kind of foreign policy win preferred by the Smartest Men in the Room.

Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-07-29
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