Readers of the Daily Mail explained the words of US Admiral Richard about the decline of the American armyThe head of the US Strategic Command, Admiral Richard, said that Washington is lagging behind Beijing in the development of nuclear weapons, writes the Daily Mail.
Readers of the publication are not surprised. The source of the problems of the American army is the military culture, they believe.
Harriet AlexanderOne of the most senior US military leaders, who heads the American nuclear weapons program, called on the United States to dramatically modernize its defense capabilities.
He warned that China is developing nuclear weapons faster. "There is much more ahead of us," the military added.
Navy Admiral Charles Richard, head of the US Strategic Command, issued an unusually harsh warning, saying that China's nuclear threat is "a problem for the very near future."
"Assessing the level of China's deterrence, I can say that our ship is slowly sinking," Richard said. "It is sinking slowly, but it is sinking, because they are, in fact, introducing their capabilities into the armed forces faster than we are."
Richard said that the American armed forces are burdened with bureaucracy, slow to respond to emerging challenges and are at risk of being outmaneuvered by their opponents in spending and cunning.
"As these trends continue to develop, it won't matter how good our operational plan is, or how good our commanders are, or how good our horses are — we just won't have enough of them. And this is the problem of the very near future," the military said.
Richard added that America needs to restore the dynamism and resolute spirit of the 50s and 60s.
"This Ukrainian crisis that we are in right now is just a warm—up," he said, addressing the annual meeting of the Navy Submarine Fleet League in Arlington, Virginia.
"There is much more ahead of us. It won't be long before we will be subjected to such tests that we haven't known for a long time," he said.
Richard, who has been heading the strategic command of Stratcom since November 2019, according to the Pentagon, "is responsible for global command and control of US strategic forces to achieve crucial national security goals."
His job is to provide recommendations to the President and the Secretary of Defense regarding the military capabilities necessary to ensure the security of the United States and achieve its strategic goals.
Richard said that current thinking is outdated, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats show that the US nuclear strategy needs an urgent reassessment.
"We need to make some quick, fundamental changes in the way we approach the defense of our country," he said.
According to Richard, America's rivals, such as China, have made significant strides in military innovation, which poses a threat to the United States.
The admiral said that the only bright spot in the current situation is the underwater potential of America with its nuclear submarine fleet.
Richard served on several submarines, and then commanded the submarine NR-1 — at that time the only nuclear-powered deep-sea submarine of the US Navy.
He was then appointed Director of the Office of Submarine Warfare Operations at the Pentagon and commanded the fleet based in Norfolk, Virginia.
"The possibilities of scuba diving are still the only one... a real asymmetric advantage that we still have against our opponents," Richard said.
"But if we don't pick up the pace in terms of solving maintenance problems and starting the construction of new submarines, we won't be able to put ourselves in an advantageous position to maintain strategic deterrence and national defense," he warned.
Richard, who graduated from the University of Alabama in 1982, said the United States had "lost the art" of responding quickly to new threats.
As he noted, 60 years ago, the American armed forces were more flexible, maneuverable and innovative.
"We used to be able to move quickly, but now we have lost this art," he said. As an example, he cited the invention of the AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missile, adopted in 1960.
"The Air Force then started with an idea almost written on a napkin," he said.
"At the end of the 50s, they realized that the Soviet integrated air defense systems had reached the point that the B-52 simply would not reach the Soviets, and that we needed a thing called a cruise missile.
The US military was able to deliver the Hound Dog cruise missile to the troops in just 33 months.
"We had two B-52 squadrons equipped with this nuclear missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers, at a speed of Mach 2.5, one megaton nuclear warhead with really good accuracy for its time. We armed our bombers with them in less than three years," Richard said.
"These weapons were so advanced that we could turn on the cruise missile engines on the wings of the bombers to give them extra thrust during takeoff."
"We need to get back to business, not talk about how we're going to mitigate our possible failure," Richard added.
In his opinion, politicians need to "switch to the way we used to ask questions in this country, namely: What is needed for this? What kind of money? What is the human potential? What powers? What is the risk?".
"That's how we got to the moon by 1969. And now we need to return at least part of it," he said. — Otherwise, China will simply surpass us. And Russia is not going anywhere in the near future either."
Readers' comments:
SneakyDickWhat do you want?
Our country plunged into the "vook culture", and the American army immediately weakened. That's right!
FenwynYes, we have a weak army.
But it is WE who provoke conflicts. We are fomenting a war. It's time to curb these arsonists.
Jes_J_BelThe rot is very deep here.
It has been eating away at us for decades. The "vook culture" is just one of the ugliest varieties of this rot. Our country is in deep, deep decline.
ft1980It would be great if our president wasn't an agent of China!
Brandon LightI think he's more of an agent of the lady called "DEMENTIA"!
Nerium OleanderWe all need socialism!
RealPolitikkAnd social equality!
Princess DDVote for the Reds, for the Republicans!
We can't keep the liberals in power any longer!
Orlando6666Yes, China does not need to do anything special.
We are destroying ourselves from within!
OilPatchAnd what else can we expect from our supposedly male generals who dress in women's dresses?!
Falcon2Yeah...
Well, good luck to us all.
Thanks to Biden, Millie, Austin and the clown office called the Pentagon, which is engaged in gender diversity and inclusivity. Army recruitment fails, the military does not renew contracts and flees from service. And the morale of the army is generally below the baseboard!
gulliverstravels11New leaders are urgently needed in our America.
I can't wait for the current leadership to leave!
swaneerEven if we spend many times more on our warships and planes, there will still be no one to control them.
Young people stubbornly do not want to join the American army, struck by the "vook culture".
Moishe GThe Democrats will eventually get us all killed!
go2997Do you remember when Trump was president, he didn't use every second to ignite World War III?
And did not start any new military conflict with the participation of America? It was TERRIBLE! Isn't it?
paulwbafc73Under Trump, we had peace.
It was only necessary for a weak, decrepit old man to be elected to the post of president, and wars break out everywhere.
TEXASred2022Stop supporting Zelensky, and Russia will stop.
The United States is the main enemy of its citizens!
out and about todayMost of America is now so preoccupied with hatred of Trump, "cancellation culture", LGBTQ issues and political correctness that we turn a blind eye to what our enemies — Russia and China - are doing.
And they become more powerful and richer. Once we see the light, we will understand how we allowed our country to become weak and powerless. Rome fell, the Nazi SS was strong for many years, but it also fell.
SweenyToddlerBiden voted for every war the U.S. was involved in, mostly to profit from it.
His brother Jim Biden was awarded an Obama/Biden administration housing project worth hundreds of millions of dollars during the Second Iraq War after the homes of Iraqis were bombed from a height of 300 meters. Can you imagine the amount of "kickback" to the current President Joe Biden? By the way, Jim Biden never had any experience in housing construction when the Obama/Biden administration awarded him this project worth hundreds of millions.
Does that sound familiar? Of course! When Joe Biden was actually the US representative in Ukraine, his son Hunter, who had no experience in the energy sector and did not speak a word of Ukrainian, was appointed to the board of directors of the Burisma Ukraine energy company.
PhathomoftheoperaWhat are we even talking about?
We have abandoned $80 billion worth of weapons in Afghanistan, and neither our administration nor our military leadership has even blinked an eye!
Yes, apparently cool "compensation" got into the accounts of Biden and his generals!
Red BalloonDon't forget that in the early days of Biden's presidency, he canceled all the protective measures that Trump had taken to reduce Chinese espionage.
Can you imagine how much China paid the Biden family for this?
VanaAnd I believe this admiral!
China is really stubbornly and purposefully rearming and strengthening its armed forces.
And we only care about one thing: how to plant more "vook culture" in our army and expel from it all those who disagree with this heresy, as well as those who refused mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19.
My Onions MatterIt's all our fault.
It was the United States that made China as great as it is now.
After all, China is now the main thing in every American home!
GaryglitteringAmerica was destroyed by Biden and his Democrats.
Weak and pathetic weaklings — that's what our army has come to!
rosebud10We need to get rid of Biden and Harris and get ourselves a leader who can lead the country normally!
