Washington Examiner, by Cami Mondeaux: As war rages in Ukraine and China continues to develop its nuclear capabilities, some military officials are warning the United States is unprepared to be dragged into warfare.
The warnings come after it was reported in October that America’s military had become weaker over the last several years and is at risk of not being able to respond to outside threats.
The Heritage Foundation, in its 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength, noted that the military is “weak” and that it was “at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests” — marking the first time in the index’s nine-year history that the country has been rated so low.
“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warm-up,” said Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [in] a long time.”
Just last year, China launched a hypersonic missile that was able to travel around the world and land back at home — taking the U.S. by surprise. The revelation had made clear that America was falling behind, raising questions “about how we are going to mitigate our assumed eventual failure,” Richard said.
He also said: “As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking. It is sinking slowly, but it is sinking, as fundamentally they are putting capability in the field faster than we are. [It won’t] matter how good our commanders are or how good our horses are — we’re not going to have enough of them. And that is a very near-term problem.”
Richard noted the U.S. continues to have an advantage with its submarines, but even that may decrease in the coming years if the country doesn’t begin addressing its maintenance problems and necessary construction.
The report from the Heritage Foundation indicated that the country’s nuclear capabilities, compared to other countries, are “strong” but trending toward “marginal” or even “weak.” That means the U.S. nuclear arsenal could be considered strong but will continue trending downward as other countries grow in strength.
Prophetic Link:
“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” Matthew 24:7