Western insanity is reaching new heights, as evidenced by a new piece in the Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs publication, by Thomas Mahnken titled “Could America Win a New World War?” with the kicker, “What It Would Take To Defeat Both China and Russia.”
Unbelievably, Manhken’s Oct. 27 article goes through a rough plan of how the United States could go about winning this war, and no, he wasn’t joking. The U.S., Mahnken says, “needs to create deep munitions reserves, stockpile high-quality gear, and come up with creative battlefield techniques,” as well as “expand and deepen the United States’ defense industrial base.” In addition, he writes, we should “develop new joint operational concepts,” study the “strategic contours of a war in multiple theaters,” and coordinate more with allies.
Otherwise the article is rife with fantastical statements such as “Moscow, meanwhile, could decide that with the United States bogged down in the western Pacific [fighting China -ed.], it could get away with invading more of Europe.” It ends with an amazingly uninspiring corral: “The United States and its allies must plan for how to simultaneously win wars in Asia and Europe, as unpalatable as the prospect may seem.”
