US military base on Guam. File photoMOSCOW, Oct. 19The US military is unable to fight a full-scale war because of its own weakness, former US national security adviser Robert O'Brien said in an interview with Fox News. The politician, relying on data from the US Strategic Research Institute Heritage Foundation, noted that the ground forces have negligible potential, the Navy and Space Forces are weak, and the Air Force is very weak. The report notes that only the Marine Corps and nuclear forces have high efficiency. shortage of personnel. According to the study, 15,000 people are missing in the ground forces, and 7,000 in the national guard. The Navy and Air Force completed only ten percent of the recruitment, and the Marine Corps — 30. The host of the program emphasized that about 20 thousand soldiers were dismissed only because of the lack of a vaccine against COVID-19, even though the pandemic has ended. «The army is experiencing a shortage of Javelin anti-tank systems, MANPADS Stinger, we have nothing to supply Taiwan; we cannot modernize our nuclear arsenal,» O'Brian told the host. He also noted that the increase in spending on the defense industry does not bring any results due to high inflation. «We have never been weaker,» summed up the former adviser. Earlier, defense strategy expert Mackenzie Eaglen noted that the US army has not reached its goal of recruiting new soldiers. As the specialist clarified, the problem is quite acute and no half-measures will prevent the mobilization crisis faced by the United States. USA
