Scenario: Acceptable US Casualties Against 3rd World Armies

[IronDuke99]

One reason I was trying to avoid using the term 'peer'. We were using it it in game terms, for a well equipped battle group.

Obviously Strategic lift (air or sea) does not really fit into the game much. Even if it did I don't think I would change the list I used earlier by all that much.

UK can field a reinforced Marine brigade and a reinforced Para brigade pretty much anywhere in the world, fairly quickly and in due course, back that up with a good Armoured Div, and that is more than anyone else in Western Europe can do.

[shahadi]

Originally Posted by IronDuke99

Obviously Strategic lift (air or sea) does not really fit into the game much. Even if it did I don't think I would change the list I used earlier by all that much.

Indeed, you gave a compelling list as well.

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[shahadi]

According to the Office of Naval Intelligence: "The naval buildup includes three new classes of advanced submarines and several new types of warships that the report warns will “provide a flexible platform for Russia to demonstrate offensive capability, threaten neighbors, project power regionally (my emphasis), and advance President Putin’s stated goal of returning Russia to clear great power status.”

Source: http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...naval-buildup/

And, this is another tidbit: “We’re back to the great powers competition,” Adm. John M. Richardson, the chief of naval operations, said in an interview.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/wo...rise.html?_r=0

So, it seems the Russians want to up the ante to become a "peer" adversary to essentially challenge the US, the UK, and NATO anywhere and everywhere.

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