‘Prospects Low’ for Direct US-Russia War, but ‘Clashes Possible in Third States’

Commenting on the recent remarks of the US military that the Pentagon is being forced by Russia and China to “contemplate and prepare for violence on the scale that the US Army has not seen since Korea,” Russian and American military experts believe that a global war is highly unlikely to occur; however, these nations may clash in other countries.

“The nation faces existential threats from modern nation-states acting aggressively in militarized competition,” Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, US Army deputy chief of staff for operations, plans, and training said at a future-of-the-Army panel at the annual meeting of the Association of the US Army in Washington last Tuesday.
“Who does that sound like? Russia?” he asked himself rhetorically.

 

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