As the experts say, the US military strategy is set forth in official documents, not by military think-tanks
MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. The deliberations by high-placed US generals at traditional military conferences on the high likelihood of a war with Russia do not imply any special danger as these are routine talks at such events, Russian military experts interviewed by TASS believe.
As the experts say, the US military strategy is set forth in official documents rather than in unofficial talks at closed forums.
Nevertheless, the general situation in the world is now alarming and the risk of some collisions is quite high, the experts say.
Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley said at an annual meeting of the Association of the US Army in Washington that a war against Russia “is almost guaranteed,” The Independent reported on Thursday.
Meanwhile, US Army Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Joseph Anderson said that the United States faced real security threat “from modern nation-states acting aggressively in militarized competition.”
“Who does that sound like? Russia?” he said.
Apart from Russia, a threat to the United States is also posed by China, although it does not possess resources and capabilities sufficient to deploy its military might on a global scale, the meeting participants noted. They also said that Russia and China were improving their non-nuclear forces, which were becoming increasingly advanced technologically.
In this situation, the Pentagon is preparing for military actions on the scale the US Army has not seen since the Korea war, Major-General William Hix from the US Army Staff said.
“A conventional conflict in the near future will be extremely lethal and fast,” the paper quoted him as saying.
Typical Military Backroom Machismo
“The talk is about a regular meeting of the Association of the US Army that comprises active and former Army servicemen and defense enterprises,” military expert and editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine Viktor Murakhovsky said.
“They hold such annual conferences in the United States as their home country where they demonstrate new types of military hardware and armaments while the US military comprising former and active servicemen make speeches there to deliver their thoughts. Marc Milley whose position can be compared to the post of the Army Commander in our Armed Forces expressed his thoughts as well,” the expert said.
In the expert’s opinion, it is not necessary to react to this seriously. “This is the personal opinion of generals expressed at such closed forum of the Army, the defense industry and secular structures. These are typical words, which frequently sound in such a close circle. Sometimes, quite crazy ideas are expressed there,” the expert said.
Chairman of the Center for Political Studies, retired Lieutenant-General Yevgeny Buzhinsky also does not see anything alarming in the generals’ words.
“The militaries always prepare for a war and this is the sense of life for a military person,” the expert noted. “Such rhetoric is the obligatory attribute of any such conference. Therefore, what else does one have to speak about at such a meeting? Of course, there could also be a talk about disarmament, but the times are different now,” he said.
Despite the posts they hold, the generals do not bear any political responsibility for their words, Murakhovsky noted.
“These are simply speeches at a conference. While official documents in the sphere of the military strategy should be taken into account, they do not envisage anything even close to that,” the expert said.
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