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One of the facts that most people can't seem to remember. A single U.S. Supercarrier carries MORE Airpower than most 1at world NATIONS! As for anyone having larger numbers than the U.S....The Gulf wars proved yet again having numbers that are FAR inferior quality to your opponents as well as a facing a more disciplined and well trained military is LETHAL! Also keep in mind that the U.S. Military is an all volunteer force. They are well paid & compensated so this is a large part of the budget. It is nice to see someone recognize that if most other nations in history were this much more powerful than the others it would've been a horrible situation! If you've not come across this little fact as of yet. The USMC is the only military arm that the President of the U.S. can deploy to combat without consulting congress at all for up to 30 days. THEY are absolutely badass! Whether it's help or harm. It's anyone, anywhere, anytime. For the USMC
this video u watching is a fail. I can give u a better impression of the size of the US military in one sentence: The largest air force on the planet is the US Air Force and the second largest, with huge distance to the other competitors, is the US Navy.
That video failed to mention that if war ever came to American soil, there is an estimated 70 million armed citizens making the American citizenry the largest nonstanding army in the world. A good chunk of them being former military.
I would say the United States has the worlds largest standing army, because we have five times more weapons then we have vehicles in the United States and some collections. There’s untold hundreds in their possessions.
Really? 7 million invaders have crossed into this country in the last 3 years. Power plants shot up and mysterious train derailments. The war is already here.
Um no those are just the registered. 😂😂. Wait till all the gangs unite to wipe out the enemy . There is more fire arms than there is people in the u.s . And makes you wonder huh the counted stat is 120 fire arms for every 100 people. Now imagine if they counted all of the organized crimes0
One thing often overlooked in all these comparison videos is the soldiers themselves. U.S. has a PROFESSIONAL armed services. These are people who voluntarily joined their branch of the armed services as their choice of a career. Also due to the worldwide engagements and training, I would guess they are among the best, if not the best trained soldiers. Add to that the cooperation and training with and integration with their allies, their ability to work together is also overlooked.
I was going to mention this, so I'll reiterate to back you up: shenanigans you hear about russian commanders would get american commanders thrown in jail. Russian logistics officers stealing equipment? Oh boy do we come down hard on that in the US. Defense contractors overstating the capabilities of their vehicles? The US tests their equipment long, hard, and rough. We have testing centers in Alaska to make sure our shit will survive the arctic. We test in high desert, and rainforests. Is our gear perfect? No, it was made by imperfect people, but we test it to figure out the flaws.
This make sound strange, but most of the world agrees that the Spetsnaz are the best soldiers in the world, but the majority of them are insane. Just below them come U.S. Special Forces, but because of the level of training "standard" U.S. soldiers get they are just below those special forces. That is one of the U.S. greatest strengths. Another that is commonly over looked in the skill of the American Engineering Community. History has shown that when allow to work up to it full potential, American Engineers do great things. And not just Military, but in so many areas. Looking at NASA. 🙂
You mention the American flag being beautiful (I agree, being American), but it reminded me of something a History Teacher of my shared when I was a student (which I think explains why a lot of people, at least in the West, have that feeling). The story was from a history class on World War II, and the quote was from a person in France during the liberation after the Normandy invasion of the European mainland. What the individual was reported to have said, which I think carries a lot of meaning and makes you appreciate the flag, was when he saw vehicles entering his town flying American flags (after having been oppressed for so long, with his country occupied), "...when you see the American flag rolling over the hill, you know you're free."
I work for an Intelligence contractor and the crazy thing is... these numbers are military numbers not even including all of the civilian contractors supporting the military which is an insane amount.
As a US Marine who was involved in the first Persian Gulf War, some of the tech we had even then would make civilians flip out. Civilians get to see some of the equipment when the bases open up and let them in, but in reality they only get a smidgen of that equipment's capability because they don't get to see how it is all integrated together.
My younger brother, a US Marine, served in the Gulf War. He was a squad leader. He is an extremely proud American, US Marine and Texan. My older brother served in the US Navy. One nephew served with the US Marine Corp and later retired from the US Coast Guard and my younger brother's son currently serves in the US Army. So very proud of them all. I thank you for your service.
I remember hearing talk about leasing Soviet telecommunications satellites and reorient them over the Gulf during build up in 91 also the short comings of the Navy not having any integrated communications with the other service branches in joint command, all the Navy flight ops had to be flown in printed on paper and that’s why all the hot commodity air missions went to the air force (and rightly so imo)
i expect every tech i see... im, as non military, one to two decades behind. It only when we are at war that we see a small % of what we have. The first drones I saw were probably 20 yrs old tech.
@majorrenegade1634 most people have no idea what they do. They were a consolidation of all the guys who work with satellites and space-based intelligence from the branches.
As @PrvtGeek pointed out below, the US service members are the difference. I'm a retired US Army soldier and can assure you that the professionalism born from a volunteer force is a key difference. Our units have a sense of comradery that is unparalleled. Service members in other nations who are conscripted or otherwise forced to fight don't have that level of commitment... to each other or "the cause". Also, our service members are absolutely committed to protect each other, and will do whatever is necessary to ensure they come home safely as a unit. It doesn't always happen that way, but not for lack of commitment. Another thing that sets the US Military apart, is that they (soldiers and leaders at all levels) are all sworn to the Constitution of the country, not an individual or a political party. That is by design and illustrates the genius of our founding fathers. I am proud to have been a part of it, and I get to enjoy the fellowship of all the friends I've made along the way.
As an American I appreciate you giving so much love. I've always heard that the US military is at least 10 to 15 years ahead on tech that they won't even tell us about. The stealth bomber for instance. It was flying in the late 70's, but we didn't know it even existed until the first Gulf War in the early 90's.
I was in the Army. We trained with Israeli soldiers. I think the order of respect goes in this order, Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines. Americans love everyone and want peace. Anything negative in the media is agenda-based.
They don't count the contractors that supports the military it a lot bigger. People that drive the ammo, fuel and food. The people that maintain the bases ( do the windows, plumbing, maintain the power plants so on ).
My family goes back 3 generations in the Navy. The Navy has had to be so strong because 95% of all our conflicts have happened across vast distances. Logistically, the US decided to make sure the Navy was capable of defense and offense in any theater. As a result, the Navy has become a behemoth compared to other nations' maritime services.
America is symbolized by the bald eagle and I think this represents their military well as they are defined by strong air power. America tries to make up for the quantity of other nations weapons with quality of their weapons and the quality of the training of their troops. Russia/China might have more tanks but up against American air power, tech and training the playing field is up ended.
And considering the US is the only nation fielding operational stealth aircraft of various types like the B2, B1, F-117 (officially retired but, no it’s not long story) F22, U2, and the F35. Even against a peer in combat they would likely not even be able to see an attack by the US until it’s too late.
A note on those Abrams tanks... did you know you could hit one with a loaded semi truck at full speed and do only minor damage? (The crew may be injured from being knocked around... and they'll be pissed!) Yes, they can be deployed elsewhere. I've seen them loaded onto C-17's, and those can go anywhere with barely any landing strip. Once offloaded, the plane immediately converts into a hospital!
Submarines are “mostly” unable to be tracked by any means of surveillance. You can see when they come into port, sail, and surface for some activities. They are also traceable from satellites when they are operating near the surface. Infrared detectors will be able to detect the disturbance in the water down to about 20-30 meters or so. Sonar nets, and other submarine vehicles, can also listen for their movement. However it’s not easy to detect, identify, and track these vehicles unless you are pretty much within 3-10km (which is not a lot when you are looking at an entire ocean). Once they are at depth they pretty much will operate without anyone knowing where they are. The fleet command actually generally knows the area where they were assigned by their mission, but the submarine commander is given the freedom to decide how and where they go (which is specifically done to ensure their secrecy). Typically your average patrol mission sets sail with 3-4 months of food/water/other provisions onboard. They can operate longer but need to rendezvous with a supply vessel or some port.
Our Naval dominance is aided by the fact that most of the potential adversaries America has are more concerned with defending their ground borders. Whereas for America to engage any of its adversaries a naval force is necessary.
We also have reasonable allies on both sides, and large oceans on the other sides. We simply are not easy to get to. We are designed from the ground up to take the fight elsewhere and not rely on homefield advantages. So now we just drive carrier groups around and park military bases right outside of whatever nation we are mad at.
@@andrewt.5567 whats even crazier is that if someone did try to take the fight to us, it's even worse because of how militarized our police forces and even civilians armed are.
Look up P-8 Poseidon, it is a massive plane. With multiple ways of tracking submarines. They can carpet bomb an area with sensor ball's. Than depoy rocket propelled torpedoes and cruise missiles. Our sonar guy's on ship's can hear a diesel motor knocking and tell you which piston in Russian or China's submarines.
We've got a relatively small army just looking at manpower. But when you realize we've got the equipment to put all of that manpower inside armor at the same time it's pretty nuts. The video also didn't go over the reserve equipment. The second largest navy in the world by tonnage is the US museum ships, which is just as modern as what most of the rest of the world is actively using.
Nope, you really don't. The ground has advantage over air. Russia for example is too reliant upon air, and as always it happens in wargame: red dragon, they regret it. Noobs rely on air too much, when its sole purpose is to get rid of something annoying or sudden, that cannot be as efficiently addressed through artillery or ground. Airstrikes are an afterthought rather than anything else. But I see that US military are seemingly complacent. In the way they use airforce so much. But only knowing that enemies they face don't have appropriate AA. The reason why air should not be trusted over the ground is - it can be cheaply countered by 1-3 AA units per jet, and further on disabled in the place. You can try and make more valuable resolution to a heavily defended hold by spamming with air. It most-likely will be profitable, but is too risky. I myself think the US military spend overly too much on below-average combat relevance tech. In a war with China, I am almost sure we'll see articles humiliating and others disappointed in the capabilities of US airforce. Not necessarily because they are bad, but because they are not invulnerable, and the chinese counter them by overwhelming with missiles.
Yes a paper tiger only because of the American intervention... You do understand that all the Patriot systems and everything else we've given them is why the ukrainians are still in the fight, right? You do realize that right?
They were a paper tiger in WW2. They were getting slaughtered to the tune of 5 million people a year by an army that was fighting on two fronts with donkeys as logistics.
The US Navy is the only Navy with complete global reach and the US Air Force is the only truly stealth capable in the world. The Russian and Chinese counter parts are as stealthy as US f18, f16s, etc. The US has a relatively small Army because it's not an offensive army its a defense and alliance based army. When counting the US and NATO in general you have to count everyone together because of Article 5.
200-300 years now check this we have quantum radar we can look inside bunkers and see old putin trying to bang his w ores with his limp noodle. Yeah! Crazy huh!
Russia has great numbers, but cohesiveness, training, logistics, and tech, ( including warfighting strategy understanding modern tech ), has made them more cannon fodder than they should have been. Corruption within the service structure has even further weakened it. Unfortunately, it seems only the elite Russian ground forces are capable in a fight.
Just 2 out of many things pepole find crazy are: 1) The US Air Force is the strongest air power in the world the second strongest is actually the US Naval air combat capability combining Navy and Marine air assets. 2) The US spends more on just it's bases outside the US than China, the country with the second largest military budget, spends on it's entire military.
Great reaction bud, and I know as an American, some folks here don't understand history or the value of our military and why it is so big but there is a very good reason historically that I don't think gets explained very well, and like most things, it has to do with ww2. Prior to ww2, the US had a large economy but not a large military, and when ww2 started in 1939, we were not strong enough to do much of anything about it, and when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) in 1941 and we officially entered the war, we were still very far behind where we needed to be in terms of strength. So, what happened was a complete militarization of the economy on a scale that is hard to imagine today. Pretty much every factory in the country was taken over during the war and car companies were told "you're making tanks now" and clothing companies were told "you're making uniforms now" and families were given coupons for groceries so they could ration food to make sure the troops had enough food, and they collected old rubber boots to make tires and old cans to make bullets, and almost everyone got a new job. My grandfather became a welder for battleships before getting drafted - he knew nothing about welding beforehand. Over the course of the war, the US built over 5,000 ships including 17 aircraft carriers, almost 300,000 planes, and over 86,000 tanks. That level of production was crazy. Regarding money, we paid for all of that mostly from the government selling war bonds to American civilians. Basically that was the government borrowing money from it's citizens with the promise to pay them back after the war. They raised over $180 billion in 1940s money with over half of Americans buying war bonds. After the war, Americans were paid back with interest, and that's one of the MAIN reasons that America in the late 1940s and early 1950s had a GREAT economy and folks were buying houses and things were going so well financially. And today when we think of ww2 we think about it as "one big war", but back then, it was thought of as two wars at once - one in Europe and one in the Pacific. And that's how the generals planned and fought them - as two big wars with different troops and different supplies and different leadership. So when the war was over, the military realized they didn't want to EVER go through that total military takeover of the economy and be caught unprepared for a war EVER again. And so it was decided that at all times the US should have the capacity to fight TWO wars at the same time, just like they did in ww2. So that's why the US military got so big. In addition, there was another HUGELY important event that happened at the end of the war as the world turned it's eyes towards rebuilding, and that is what is now known as "The Bretton Woods agreement" where in order to help Europe and Asia rebuild after the war, the US promised to patrol the seas to protect not just American cargo ships, but EVERYONE's cargo ships, in exchange for being allies and trading in US dollars and that the US would back every trade in gold bars. This made the US dollar the "global trade currency" and also meant that countries without their own big navy to protect their own ships could now trade safely in the world for the first time, which caused HUGE growth in a lot of countries that previously weren't very large trading partners. By the 1970s, the ability to guarantee each trade in gold became a problem and so we stopped doing that part, but the "momentum" of patrolling the seas and trading in US dollars is still felt today. And sadly, you can see that even today, in areas where the US withdraws or reduces its' naval presence, it doesn't take long for pirates to start seizing or attacking ships at sea. So those two things - the ability to fight two wars at once if needed without having to militarize the economy, and the ability to patrol the seas to protect global trade - have been the two main historical motivations for the military becoming as large as it is, particularly our Navy. Even countries like China that have more boats than we do, if you look at the capabilities of those boats - most of their boats aren't powerful enough to go further than the South China sea, and so we're the only Navy in the world that has the capacity to be at sea for months and months at a time. Hope it helps! Cheers
What has surprised me about Russia's lack of success in Ukraine is its inability to gain air superiority and its lack of precision weapons. I think these things are related as if they could hit precise targets they could take out their enemy's SAM sites. The United States faced similar hardware in Iraq and reduced Iraq's air defenses with high-altitude stealth bombers and precision weapons. Russia obviously has none of the first and apparently very little of the second.
7:00 You are right. It's kind of overlooked. The U.S. Navy made globalized economy possible by making it safe for anyone to ship products and raw materials to and from anyone in the Breton Wood club.
Battle spirit is necessary too. We had good battle spirit 2001-2014. But new young people don't remember 9/11. Service is traditional in many families, particularly Native Americans. My family has been in English colonies to US today, over 400 years. Many family served at all levels in the 20th century. USAF, USN, USA and Marine Corp. Also DoD or defense contractor.
This is something people need to consider. We dont want peers. When it comes to military we are horribly sore losers and do not want to fight fair. If someone catch up on something we will whine about how unfair that is then dump billions into getting back to a lopsided scale again.
The US Navy is the only Blue Water Navy in the world. Meaning they are the only Navy that can operate in the open ocean, far away from the US shores. On top of that, the US Navy can fight two wars in both major open oceans at the same time. Oh yeah, the US Navy also has the 2nd most powerful Air Force in the world, behind the US Air Force. The US Navy is the single most powerful organization to ever exist on earth.
Correction to the last the Department of the Navy is the single most powerful organization on earth. It’s an important distinction because the Marine Corps falls into the jurisdiction of the Dept of Navy and it’s with the Marines that it becomes so powerful with a land air and sea element
The greatest strength of the US Military is the logistical aspects of warfare. The ability to keep vital supplies such as fuel, food, water ammunition, weapons and equipment, to the troops halfway across the world is absolutely insane. The US Logistical command is the beating heart of the beast that is the US military. You cannot run from it.
Your comment about size of armed forces is somewhat correct. America's doctrine to modern combat is not to throw countless bodies at the threat, but use as few bodies as needed to throw as few high tech solutions at the threat as needed. WW2 and Vietnam were the last wars where we used multiple dumb weapons thrown at one location to maybe hit the desired target (and destroy a lot of collateral targets around it). Since then, we went to guided munitions, drones, electronic warfare, and force multipliers (night vision, suppressed weapons, networked platforms, etc) to let a few operators dominate the battlefield as much as possible.
The biggest thing this video leaves out is the airmen, soldiers, seamen who make up the forces. They are all volounteers. They are doing it because they said I WANT to do this Not because someone made them or it was required. They take pride in their job, their country. They receive the best training, supplies and support while in the service and are respected because they chose to protect the citizens and our interests. This isn't a ragtag group of people thrown together. They fight for a purpose and for each other and that's the real strength of our military. Give someone great equipment without the heart and will and they will lose. "Thank you for your service (time in the military volountarily) is a common phrase here. We appreciate every one of them.
Fun fact. America is actually underpowered right now compared to what we could be. We currently only have about 2 million people that are serving. But if we were ever TRULY threatened, we have 86,000,000 people that are deemed fit for military service, and we'd sign up in droves!
I don't think your the only one that thought U.S.S.R. was a big and strong military than they really are. And surprised they didn't win the Ukrainian was in a couple of months. Think about all the secrets they don't mention about the U.S. in this video that is still top secret.✌️❤️
11:15, you almost understood. It means it doesn't matter how many the Russians or Chinese have, we have those that actually function, and unlike them, are proven to.
The stat that always puts the US's military into perspective is the fact that of the top 10 largest air forces in the world, America has the first, second, fourth and seventh largest being the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines respectively. The total aircraft for the entire military is greater than the next 5 nations combined.
I work for a Navy/Department of Defense contractor and its interesting to see these types of videos. While they are informative, they are talking about "old" technology and capabilities where the Navy is concerned, so i assume its probably the same for the other branches. The Navy is far beyond the level of technology this video portrays them to be at.
The navy section does not underscore the massive amount of forward firepower a carrier group brings with it. These days a large amount of offensive and defensive capabilities are fully based upon cruise missiles that can be deployed and hit specific targets from 1,500 km away and are nearly impossible to intercept. The United States has a lot of very capable cruise missiles. Most of the submarines can launch around 150 cruise missiles (as well as nuclear SLBMs), and each destroyer has a similar amount as well. Then you have the Aegis equipped missile cruisers as well. Russia has a very highly mechanized army (tanks). They are quite a bit older and less technically advanced compared to the United States and China. The United States also does not see tanks as being as important in its forward projection of force (important for defense). With precision missiles, bombs, drones, and artillery the take has less advantages for anything except for combating other tanks. And as we’ve seen in Ukraine, a few squads equipped with missiles are extremely effective at destroying tanks. The United States offensive tactic is about maintaining air superiority. Once you dominate the sky, you can suppress the ability for forces to move, and that makes them easier to attack on your terms.
The tanks in the Army were originally planned to stop a soviet advance on Europe/NATO through the flatlands of Poland, it's why you see a lot of Army bases in Germany. It's also why the A10 was designed and built. Since the cold war ended, the assignments have been modified, and continue to serve with excellence on other fronts. Ex-navy guy here, got out in the 70's, all our armed services are the cream of the crop. Great equipment and fantastic training have lead to the best military this country has ever had. I enjoy watching your reactions, keep it up. Stay safe.
one thing that often gets overlooked is the 'US defense budget' numbers usually include all of the humanitarian spending, usually 1-200 billion of the 'military' spending was spent on humanitarian packages, food, medicine, and things like that given to other countries/groups
Yes, we have a lot of equipment, but the training of the personnel is what really matters. Knowing how to do your job very very well is what leads to confidence and success in the mission. For example we have less tanks, but each with a professional crew would not hesitate to go up against a greater number of inferior tanks/crews. This is the opposite of most of our likely foes, who just look at raw numbers.
carrier strike groups make up the buik of the US Navy. 9 carrier strikes groups as an offensive/defensive loadout makes the carriers the most dangerous arsenal of the US military. they project power and the last thing you want to see is a battle hardened carrier strike group sailing towards you
Army combay vehicles are mainly used for capturing and or holding land and makes sense that Russia and China would have more as they are most focused on land neighbors. America has no intentions or concerns about it's land borders. As you saw in the US vs the World video, is perfectly capable if figting and winning wars without using many land troops anywhere in the world.
The US flag strikes a decent balance between looking reasonably good, but also being fairly distinctive and not easily confused with a lot of other flags. A lot of flags manage one or the other of these criteria, but fewer are good at both. For example, the flag Brazil is very distinctive but doesn't look that great (in particular, some of the detail is much too fine to be easily seen under normal flag-viewing conditions, and also it has writing, which is a problem when the flag is flying and you happen to see the back side); whereas, the flag of France looks great but is one of 7842931 different flags that use one stripe each of red, white, and blue, so it gets zero points for distinctiveness. Other flags that manage both criteria well include the British Union Jack and the flags of Japan, Canada, and New Mexico, among others. And then there's the Maryland flag, which is so outlandishly hideous that you have to give it a certain amount of grudging respect for sheer audacity. The Ukraine flag manages to be both simple and also distinctive, which is also a fairly rare combination. I do think the US flag looks better (mostly because all of its colors are either fully saturated, or else black or white), but it's undeniably a more visually complex design. Doing all three (strong colors, simple design, *and* distinctive) is VERY hard to achieve, although Japan managed it. The difficulty of tracking a submarine depends on a number of factors, but the single most important is how often it has to approach the surface. All current US submarines are designed to remain deep under water for extended periods of time while traveling thousands of miles. This is not true for every country's submarine force, e.g., most of the PLA Navy's submarines are unable to move long distances without surfacing. People who just compare numbers tend to overlook this kind of difference, but it is very strategically important. A lot of people expected Russia to accomplish more than it has done in the Ukraine war. It's true that Russia does have (or, at least, did have going into the war) a lot of military assets. The reasons why things did not go as planned are too many and too complex to fully explore in a TH-cam comment, but succinctly, some of the most critical issues holding them back were inferior training, botched logistics, poor leadership, bad morale, a bunch of ostensibly neutral countries slipping various forms of support (albeit, all short of actual boots on the ground) to Ukraine, and just enough wisdom to avoid doing some things that would have risked drawing more countries into the conflict in a greater way. Yes, the US has fewer main battle tanks than Russia or China; but raw numbers don't tell you everything. The M1A1 is a good tank with good supplementary gear, and the US has the logistics to deploy them basically anywhere in the world on relatively short notice and can back them up with excellent situational intelligence and reasonably good close air support (although the A-10 is getting kind of old now, and drones are maybe not fully ready to replace it yet, and helicopters can be vulnerable if the situation is dicey). Also many of the career officers have significant experience in previous conflicts. Hopefully the US, Russia, and China will not get into an actual direct boots-on-the-ground shots-fired military conflict with one another, because that's uncomfortably close to global nuclear holocaust; but if you have to pick one of those three countries to fight against, don't pick America as your enemy. That's playing the game on the highest difficulty setting. (Well, technically, trying to *invade* America would be the very highest difficulty setting, but I don't think any country is going to attempt that any time soon. Managing the logistics of conducting such an invasion would be the seventh circle of hell even if you had Star Trek level technology.)
The flag of Liberia is most similar the flag of the US. Liberia's flag looks just like the US flag, with the same red white and blue colors, except that it has 1 large star instead of 50 small stars and 11 stripes instead of 13.
As an American I've always thought the Arizona flag was one of the coolest state flags in the country. Search up "Thin Blue Line Arizona Flag" to see what I mean.
@@EasilyCringed Well, it is more visually complicated than the flags of e.g. Japan, France, Russia, or Ukraine. But two of these (France and Russia) aren't particularly distinctive (in fact, it's very easy to get them confused with each other), and the flag of Ukraine achieves its distinctiveness by using less popular colors. Japan's flag, admittedly, is better, but it's *unusually* good. (And you can't just copy somebody else's design. If a bunch of countries suddenly decided that Japan's is a nice flag and copied it by changing their own flags to be a solid circle on a solid background, then that wouldn't be distinctive any more.) Personally, I would rather have a flag that's hard to draw, than a flag that's hard to *remember which country it is* when you see it, which is most of them.
The us doesn't really heavily on tanks because in a modern-day battle, the tank vs tank is very rare. Due to just as effective armored vehicles, artillery, infantry, and air assets. But ia tank is a very important piece but critical due to us doctrine.
the only way to track a sub is with another sub, we never know the exact position of 1 only a general area even though communications are encrypted they never report their exact position.
My family (patrilineal line) came to the British Colony of Virginia in 1674. Since then, the only wars we have missed were the Spanish-American War (great-grandfather was too old & grandfather was too young), the Korean War (dad didn't stay in the reserves after WW2), & Afghanistan. Dad flew B-25s, B-17s, & B-29s in WW2. My brother got shot down 3 times in Vietnam. I retired from the Army after 20+ years in 1995.
Many of Russia's replacement (non dead) soldiers apparently were recruited from jails last week or month so how good can they be and what is their morale and stake in the game?
Now Russia is conscripting migrants and refugees and also ordering POWs to the front lines to die as cannon fodder. Another illegal act by Putin and his Government.
He said 62,000 tanks, it 6,200 tanks. The one major advantage of US tanks over all other tanks: it can accurately fire on a moving target while moving at top speed itself. the firing system control software is insane. Also, as the narrator said, they pummel the hell out of the ground forces from the air before sending in troops and land vehicles.
Being an Engineer on ocean going vessels .. We were "United States Merchant Marine" our little cards allowed us more than a passport. In time of war almost everyone working boats, ships or almost anything water bound could be called into service. It is a pretty extensive force that is instantly available.
US Navy has 11 aircraft carrier strike group's and their the most technically advanced aircraft carrier's. And the second closest is United Kingdom with 2-3. United Kingdom is above China even though they have 2-5 aircraft carrier, the reason is because China has 1 newer generation of Aircraft carrier while 2-3 are Soviet era technology. While UK's Aircraft carrier's are all newer generation's.
The Navy is HUGE because as a basically "landlocked" Nation we have the most capability of "invasion" to other sea reachable nations like Japan or china. Just like France in WW2 the landing boats were absolutely huge in the success of the war because it allowed a fast allotment of troops onto frontline land to setup camps and supply points.
Our navy has the ability to move fighting forces all over the globe, which gives it the ultimate advantage. And keep forces elsewhere at the same time of equal strength.
this video u watching is a fail. I can give u a better impression of the size of the US military in one sentence: The largest air force on the planet is the US Air Force and the second largest, with huge distance to the other competitors, is the US Navy.
You hit the nail on the head - “imagine if it was Saudi Arabia [who ran the world].” I can say as an American that we are not perfect, that we have screwed a lot of things up. But, in the words of Winston Churchill, “you can always count on America to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.” The world has seen other super powers - Persia, Rome, Britannia, etc - and none were as close to as charitable as the US has been. We’ve made mistakes, we’ve done bad things, but can anyone honestly say another country would be better? We are a very weird nation in respect to the military and foreign relations. We were forged as a nation in combat, and have basically been fighting in war almost non stop our entire existence. And we are pretty, pretty, pretty good at it. But we don’t actually like being Goliath. We basically want to fuck off to our own devices, plant some corn, invent some shit, make a couple bucks, and drink a beer with our friends. Honestly, I think commerce is more of our national spirit than the Martian arts, even if we do excel at the latter.
They can detect subs if they are at close range if attacking a carrier group, but by then usually destroyers and frigates will see them and rain misery....
The us army has a 5000acre training area that even the Brits use. When a foreign force comes to this facility, it is ‘cuz its THE largest of its type. As one Brit said : “ we have 500 acres. After awhile , you know where everything is”. In addition, ‘cuz this area is in the South, there are lots of poisonous snakes, as well
The thing about Russia is the location. Russia can outlast any invading army easily and is almost unconquerable because if the size and weather. They also have a dictatorship where they can throw millions of people to die and our politics would never do that. Russia can only dominate neighbors but no one else. They themselves are like a fortress more than a threat. Also, Russia can launch all their nukes at once, which causes the near end of the world, so there is also that.
11:25 You are correct and wrong at the same time, yes China and Russia have more tanks per se, but 1 of our tanks equals about 5 of theirs (if not more), just look at Desert Shield and Desert Storm for examples of the effectiveness of our tanks compared to the Russian tanks Iraq used. Chinese tanks are basically reverse engineered Russian tanks too.
One thing to remember about Russia, they don't have the equipment or much training with it. For money reasons, the Russian government had been quite content to sell most of its good equipment to other nations. In addition, the equipment they do have they skimp constantly to save on maintenance until its time for a parade or saber rattling contest.
The reason China and Russia have more tanks is because their countries and borders are bigger and wider. The number of tanks required to be stationed along the border also increased.
I'm a Navy guy through and through and have no problem saying the Marines are bad ass. Served with them.. worked with them.. would definitely fight for them. I think that's what makes us strong! Branches fighting together.
There's an expression Americans have to describe Russia's recent standing; "A Paper Tiger" and I believe China is a far greater threat to contend with, but we must remember and learn from our mistakes in Vietnam, Afghanistan and other conflicts.
I think most people should be happy the The United States is the world power. We by far do not always make the right decisions BUT we 1000% believe in freedom!
A Russian lady asked her Husband "Honey, who are we at war with?" the husband replied, "We're fighting Ukraine, who has the help of the US and NATO." The wife said "How is Ukraine doing?" The Husband responded by saying "Well they've had about 380,000 troops killed and wounded, and nearly 10,000 civilians have been killed." The wife says "Oh my... and what about Russia, how are we doing?" The husband says "we've had about 315,000 troops killed and wounded, nearly have of our tanks have been destroyed, and we're running low on ammo and equipment." The wife says "Jeez.. and what about the US and NATO?" The husband says "They haven't arrived yet."
Don't forget where we started from. We were behind so far that we had to start off with a bang. After that we just never stopped. Either way we can not get complacent and think we are invincible, nobody is.
To answer your question about satellites, yes some satellites can "see" below the water as in to map the bottom of the world's oceans. That said I do not know if the military ones can differentiate individual stuff below the water. The main problem is camera sensor resolution, say you do map the oceans from space. A square kilometer is at most a single pixel. (This knowledge derived from civilian camera equipment and stuff from the national weather service then extrapolated to assume that the military has better resolution) We can probably track surface vessels with satellites without issue but submarines underwater are probably not feasible to distinguish and track with just satellite surveillance only due to all the biomass in the world's oceans.
Along time ago when I was in the US Navy, (1974-1984) I remember seeing an interview. Walter Cronkite, a journalist interviewed the Soviet Premier, Leiodid Brezhnev. Now keep in mind that at that time the US population was much smaller. Cronkite asked Brezhnev if he had ever considered invading the USA. Brezhnev, with a horrid look on his face almost yelled "NO" ! Cronkite asked him why. Brezhnev answered....."200 million deer rifles" !
i used to be and gardener for the air force...if you happen to be near one of the bases they will often have air shows, well wither going to. a great low cost way to spend a weekend day.
So something to consider when you were talking about tank numbers. The US for a long time has always gone down the route of combined arms: Infantry supporting Tanks and Air assisting Naval assets not to mention other crossovers. Short of getting into a compromised position you would lose less tanks with a combined arms approach compared to just mass tank attack.
This is how a global war (in this case both world wars) can traumatise an entire country for centuries In FDR's own words from his legendary speech during the day of infamy in 1941: "I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us." True to these words, the US has always made sure that it would never again be the victim of another major power
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One of the facts that most people can't seem to remember. A single U.S. Supercarrier carries MORE Airpower than most 1at world NATIONS!
As for anyone having larger numbers than the U.S....The Gulf wars proved yet again having numbers that are FAR inferior quality to your opponents as well as a facing a more disciplined and well trained military is LETHAL!
Also keep in mind that the U.S. Military is an all volunteer force. They are well paid & compensated so this is a large part of the budget.
It is nice to see someone recognize that if most other nations in history were this much more powerful than the others it would've been a horrible situation!
If you've not come across this little fact as of yet. The USMC is the only military arm that the President of the U.S. can deploy to combat without consulting congress at all for up to 30 days. THEY are absolutely badass! Whether it's help or harm. It's anyone, anywhere, anytime. For the USMC
this video u watching is a fail. I can give u a better impression of the size of the US military in one sentence: The largest air force on the planet is the US Air Force and the second largest, with huge distance to the other competitors, is the US Navy.
It's because we have a professional military, they are constantly training
Less tanks but better.
Attacking America difficult. Even if you get inland, state guard units, army reserves, and millions of armed civillians
That video failed to mention that if war ever came to American soil, there is an estimated 70 million armed citizens making the American citizenry the largest nonstanding army in the world. A good chunk of them being former military.
I would say the United States has the worlds largest standing army, because we have five times more weapons then we have vehicles in the United States and some collections. There’s untold hundreds in their possessions.
Shh! Tell tell anyone.
400 million guns
Really? 7 million invaders have crossed into this country in the last 3 years. Power plants shot up and mysterious train derailments. The war is already here.
Um no those are just the registered. 😂😂.
Wait till all the gangs unite to wipe out the enemy . There is more fire arms than there is people in the u.s .
And makes you wonder huh the counted stat is 120 fire arms for every 100 people. Now imagine if they counted all of the organized crimes0
“Marines are kind of bad ass” is the most underrated statement of this century lol 😂 love the videos!
Marines are are one of the two "Bad Asses" that comes in under the Department of the US Navy, so if you say US Navy they are mentioned.
One thing often overlooked in all these comparison videos is the soldiers themselves. U.S. has a PROFESSIONAL armed services. These are people who voluntarily joined their branch of the armed services as their choice of a career. Also due to the worldwide engagements and training, I would guess they are among the best, if not the best trained soldiers. Add to that the cooperation and training with and integration with their allies, their ability to work together is also overlooked.
I was going to mention this, so I'll reiterate to back you up: shenanigans you hear about russian commanders would get american commanders thrown in jail. Russian logistics officers stealing equipment? Oh boy do we come down hard on that in the US. Defense contractors overstating the capabilities of their vehicles? The US tests their equipment long, hard, and rough. We have testing centers in Alaska to make sure our shit will survive the arctic. We test in high desert, and rainforests. Is our gear perfect? No, it was made by imperfect people, but we test it to figure out the flaws.
watch the movie "pentagon wars" with kelsey grammer about making/testing the bradley. it's a shiddy movie but funny@@Fusako8
Another thing, in the US, they have additional trained soldiers, who are always ready at a moments notice... military reserves.
This make sound strange, but most of the world agrees that the Spetsnaz are the best soldiers in the world, but the majority of them are insane. Just below them come U.S. Special Forces, but because of the level of training "standard" U.S. soldiers get they are just below those special forces. That is one of the U.S. greatest strengths.
Another that is commonly over looked in the skill of the American Engineering Community. History has shown that when allow to work up to it full potential, American Engineers do great things. And not just Military, but in so many areas. Looking at NASA. 🙂
@@ironwarmonger spetsnaz are no were near as good as delta 🤣
You mention the American flag being beautiful (I agree, being American), but it reminded me of something a History Teacher of my shared when I was a student (which I think explains why a lot of people, at least in the West, have that feeling). The story was from a history class on World War II, and the quote was from a person in France during the liberation after the Normandy invasion of the European mainland. What the individual was reported to have said, which I think carries a lot of meaning and makes you appreciate the flag, was when he saw vehicles entering his town flying American flags (after having been oppressed for so long, with his country occupied), "...when you see the American flag rolling over the hill, you know you're free."
didnt the Dutch invent the American Flag?
I work for an Intelligence contractor and the crazy thing is... these numbers are military numbers not even including all of the civilian contractors supporting the military which is an insane amount.
I probably live very close to your border.
As a US Marine who was involved in the first Persian Gulf War, some of the tech we had even then would make civilians flip out. Civilians get to see some of the equipment when the bases open up and let them in, but in reality they only get a smidgen of that equipment's capability because they don't get to see how it is all integrated together.
My younger brother, a US Marine, served in the Gulf War. He was a squad leader. He is an extremely proud American, US Marine and Texan. My older brother served in the US Navy. One nephew served with the US Marine Corp and later retired from the US Coast Guard and my younger brother's son currently serves in the US Army. So very proud of them all. I thank you for your service.
I remember hearing talk about leasing Soviet telecommunications satellites and reorient them over the Gulf during build up in 91 also the short comings of the Navy not having any integrated communications with the other service branches in joint command, all the Navy flight ops had to be flown in printed on paper and that’s why all the hot commodity air missions went to the air force (and rightly so imo)
i expect every tech i see... im, as non military, one to two decades behind. It only when we are at war that we see a small % of what we have. The first drones I saw were probably 20 yrs old tech.
Russia only ever had the threat of nukes. Russia stopped being a conventional threat when the USSR collapsed
They left out our Special Forces, like the Navy Seals, Airborne Rangers and Green Berets. You should check those out.
And Marine Corps recon.
And Delta Force
@majorrenegade1634 most people have no idea what they do. They were a consolidation of all the guys who work with satellites and space-based intelligence from the branches.
And Space Force!
This must be an older video. I believe we spent 869 billion last year.
I believe it all the millions we've donated to Ukraine already for sure that's military spending
I’m thinking the video is from 2018
@@marydavis5234sounds about right
As @PrvtGeek pointed out below, the US service members are the difference. I'm a retired US Army soldier and can assure you that the professionalism born from a volunteer force is a key difference. Our units have a sense of comradery that is unparalleled. Service members in other nations who are conscripted or otherwise forced to fight don't have that level of commitment... to each other or "the cause". Also, our service members are absolutely committed to protect each other, and will do whatever is necessary to ensure they come home safely as a unit. It doesn't always happen that way, but not for lack of commitment. Another thing that sets the US Military apart, is that they (soldiers and leaders at all levels) are all sworn to the Constitution of the country, not an individual or a political party. That is by design and illustrates the genius of our founding fathers. I am proud to have been a part of it, and I get to enjoy the fellowship of all the friends I've made along the way.
100% agree
Agree = US military is there to Uphold the Constitution, NOT the Presidents personal army = as in Russia with pootin
I think our flag is beautiful because it stands for freedom not oppression
Truth
Today it's a distraction from education and healthcare "patriotism Is the virtue of the vicious" pretty flag tho
As an American I appreciate you giving so much love. I've always heard that the US military is at least 10 to 15 years ahead on tech that they won't even tell us about. The stealth bomber for instance. It was flying in the late 70's, but we didn't know it even existed until the first Gulf War in the early 90's.
I was in the Army. We trained with Israeli soldiers. I think the order of respect goes in this order, Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines. Americans love everyone and want peace. Anything negative in the media is agenda-based.
I am Canadian, I love America :)
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I was born in the U. S.A. by a POLISH mom and a CANADIAN dad........
Americans love our neighbor Canada!! Hugs from Florida!!
They don't count the contractors that supports the military it a lot bigger. People that drive the ammo, fuel and food. The people that maintain the bases ( do the windows, plumbing, maintain the power plants so on ).
You're not wrong about our Navy. We honestly have to be. Seeing as that is most likely the #1 place an enemy will come from.
React to the US defense transportation network. It's really cool.
My family goes back 3 generations in the Navy. The Navy has had to be so strong because 95% of all our conflicts have happened across vast distances. Logistically, the US decided to make sure the Navy was capable of defense and offense in any theater. As a result, the Navy has become a behemoth compared to other nations' maritime services.
The Marine Corps is the best Army in the world because it doesn't pay attention to questions to politics.
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America is symbolized by the bald eagle and I think this represents their military well as they are defined by strong air power. America tries to make up for the quantity of other nations weapons with quality of their weapons and the quality of the training of their troops. Russia/China might have more tanks but up against American air power, tech and training the playing field is up ended.
And considering the US is the only nation fielding operational stealth aircraft of various types like the B2, B1, F-117 (officially retired but, no it’s not long story) F22, U2, and the F35. Even against a peer in combat they would likely not even be able to see an attack by the US until it’s too late.
A note on those Abrams tanks... did you know you could hit one with a loaded semi truck at full speed and do only minor damage? (The crew may be injured from being knocked around... and they'll be pissed!) Yes, they can be deployed elsewhere. I've seen them loaded onto C-17's, and those can go anywhere with barely any landing strip. Once offloaded, the plane immediately converts into a hospital!
one of the things i love is that the US Navy is the worlds SECOND largest air-force behind only the US Airforce
Marines are not "kinda" bad ass. They are bad ass. They go in first, and the Army follows. I am a former Marine.
Former marine
Not a Marine but I have a few friends that are, and I laughed out loud and said "Not kinda!"
Marines are shock troops.
Semper Fi Devil Dog! You know army stands for Aren't Ready to be Marines Yet lol
When is the last conflict you went in first?
Submarines are “mostly” unable to be tracked by any means of surveillance. You can see when they come into port, sail, and surface for some activities. They are also traceable from satellites when they are operating near the surface. Infrared detectors will be able to detect the disturbance in the water down to about 20-30 meters or so. Sonar nets, and other submarine vehicles, can also listen for their movement. However it’s not easy to detect, identify, and track these vehicles unless you are pretty much within 3-10km (which is not a lot when you are looking at an entire ocean).
Once they are at depth they pretty much will operate without anyone knowing where they are. The fleet command actually generally knows the area where they were assigned by their mission, but the submarine commander is given the freedom to decide how and where they go (which is specifically done to ensure their secrecy).
Typically your average patrol mission sets sail with 3-4 months of food/water/other provisions onboard. They can operate longer but need to rendezvous with a supply vessel or some port.
U.S. had 7 aircraft carriers when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 3yrs later we had 122
“With great power, comes, great responsibility!”-Uncle Ben”
“And, knowing, is half the battle!”-Joe
Our Naval dominance is aided by the fact that most of the potential adversaries America has are more concerned with defending their ground borders. Whereas for America to engage any of its adversaries a naval force is necessary.
We also have reasonable allies on both sides, and large oceans on the other sides. We simply are not easy to get to. We are designed from the ground up to take the fight elsewhere and not rely on homefield advantages. So now we just drive carrier groups around and park military bases right outside of whatever nation we are mad at.
@@andrewt.5567 whats even crazier is that if someone did try to take the fight to us, it's even worse because of how militarized our police forces and even civilians armed are.
quick fact, the navy has more air crafts than the air force
As a Marine, I can Confirm that we are "kind of bad ass"
Look up P-8 Poseidon, it is a massive plane. With multiple ways of tracking submarines. They can carpet bomb an area with sensor ball's. Than depoy rocket propelled torpedoes and cruise missiles. Our sonar guy's on ship's can hear a diesel motor knocking and tell you which piston in Russian or China's submarines.
We've got a relatively small army just looking at manpower. But when you realize we've got the equipment to put all of that manpower inside armor at the same time it's pretty nuts. The video also didn't go over the reserve equipment. The second largest navy in the world by tonnage is the US museum ships, which is just as modern as what most of the rest of the world is actively using.
We have the biggest and strongest AirForce too, you win wars by controlling the skies.
And you also control the low earth orbit for when the skies are not enough lol
Nope, you really don't. The ground has advantage over air. Russia for example is too reliant upon air, and as always it happens in wargame: red dragon, they regret it.
Noobs rely on air too much, when its sole purpose is to get rid of something annoying or sudden, that cannot be as efficiently addressed through artillery or ground. Airstrikes are an afterthought rather than anything else.
But I see that US military are seemingly complacent. In the way they use airforce so much. But only knowing that enemies they face don't have appropriate AA.
The reason why air should not be trusted over the ground is - it can be cheaply countered by 1-3 AA units per jet, and further on disabled in the place.
You can try and make more valuable resolution to a heavily defended hold by spamming with air. It most-likely will be profitable, but is too risky.
I myself think the US military spend overly too much on below-average combat relevance tech.
In a war with China, I am almost sure we'll see articles humiliating and others disappointed in the capabilities of US airforce. Not necessarily because they are bad, but because they are not invulnerable, and the chinese counter them by overwhelming with missiles.
Russia was shown to be a paper tiger after the Ukraine invasion.
Ukraine is destroyed dude lol I have family there.........Ukraine was never winning don't believe the news
Yes a paper tiger only because of the American intervention... You do understand that all the Patriot systems and everything else we've given them is why the ukrainians are still in the fight, right? You do realize that right?
They were a paper tiger in WW2. They were getting slaughtered to the tune of 5 million people a year by an army that was fighting on two fronts with donkeys as logistics.
What does paper tiger mean, please?
@@jenniferandrews1917 It means on paper they have a very formidable military, but in reality it's a disorganized mess
Keep in mind literally all of our technology is decades ahead of everyone else and that's only the stuff we know about...
The US Navy is the only Navy with complete global reach and the US Air Force is the only truly stealth capable in the world. The Russian and Chinese counter parts are as stealthy as US f18, f16s, etc. The US has a relatively small Army because it's not an offensive army its a defense and alliance based army. When counting the US and NATO in general you have to count everyone together because of Article 5.
Those in the military industrial tell us we are really about 30 years ahead of what the public is aware of.
By the time we knew about the F22 the air force planning its retirement and off testing for the next jet they wouldnt say anything about.
200-300 years now check this we have quantum radar we can look inside bunkers and see old putin trying to bang his w ores with his limp noodle.
Yeah! Crazy huh!
Russia has great numbers, but cohesiveness, training, logistics, and tech, ( including warfighting strategy understanding modern tech ), has made them more cannon fodder than they should have been. Corruption within the service structure has even further weakened it. Unfortunately, it seems only the elite Russian ground forces are capable in a fight.
And even those elite forces of the Russian Army are proving to be not so good after all.
Just 2 out of many things pepole find crazy are:
1) The US Air Force is the strongest air power in the world the second strongest is actually the US Naval air combat capability combining Navy and Marine air assets.
2) The US spends more on just it's bases outside the US than China, the country with the second largest military budget, spends on it's entire military.
Great reaction bud, and I know as an American, some folks here don't understand history or the value of our military and why it is so big but there is a very good reason historically that I don't think gets explained very well, and like most things, it has to do with ww2.
Prior to ww2, the US had a large economy but not a large military, and when ww2 started in 1939, we were not strong enough to do much of anything about it, and when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) in 1941 and we officially entered the war, we were still very far behind where we needed to be in terms of strength.
So, what happened was a complete militarization of the economy on a scale that is hard to imagine today. Pretty much every factory in the country was taken over during the war and car companies were told "you're making tanks now" and clothing companies were told "you're making uniforms now" and families were given coupons for groceries so they could ration food to make sure the troops had enough food, and they collected old rubber boots to make tires and old cans to make bullets, and almost everyone got a new job. My grandfather became a welder for battleships before getting drafted - he knew nothing about welding beforehand. Over the course of the war, the US built over 5,000 ships including 17 aircraft carriers, almost 300,000 planes, and over 86,000 tanks. That level of production was crazy.
Regarding money, we paid for all of that mostly from the government selling war bonds to American civilians. Basically that was the government borrowing money from it's citizens with the promise to pay them back after the war. They raised over $180 billion in 1940s money with over half of Americans buying war bonds. After the war, Americans were paid back with interest, and that's one of the MAIN reasons that America in the late 1940s and early 1950s had a GREAT economy and folks were buying houses and things were going so well financially.
And today when we think of ww2 we think about it as "one big war", but back then, it was thought of as two wars at once - one in Europe and one in the Pacific. And that's how the generals planned and fought them - as two big wars with different troops and different supplies and different leadership.
So when the war was over, the military realized they didn't want to EVER go through that total military takeover of the economy and be caught unprepared for a war EVER again. And so it was decided that at all times the US should have the capacity to fight TWO wars at the same time, just like they did in ww2. So that's why the US military got so big.
In addition, there was another HUGELY important event that happened at the end of the war as the world turned it's eyes towards rebuilding, and that is what is now known as "The Bretton Woods agreement" where in order to help Europe and Asia rebuild after the war, the US promised to patrol the seas to protect not just American cargo ships, but EVERYONE's cargo ships, in exchange for being allies and trading in US dollars and that the US would back every trade in gold bars. This made the US dollar the "global trade currency" and also meant that countries without their own big navy to protect their own ships could now trade safely in the world for the first time, which caused HUGE growth in a lot of countries that previously weren't very large trading partners.
By the 1970s, the ability to guarantee each trade in gold became a problem and so we stopped doing that part, but the "momentum" of patrolling the seas and trading in US dollars is still felt today. And sadly, you can see that even today, in areas where the US withdraws or reduces its' naval presence, it doesn't take long for pirates to start seizing or attacking ships at sea.
So those two things - the ability to fight two wars at once if needed without having to militarize the economy, and the ability to patrol the seas to protect global trade - have been the two main historical motivations for the military becoming as large as it is, particularly our Navy. Even countries like China that have more boats than we do, if you look at the capabilities of those boats - most of their boats aren't powerful enough to go further than the South China sea, and so we're the only Navy in the world that has the capacity to be at sea for months and months at a time.
Hope it helps!
Cheers
Thank you so much. Great read. 👌
What has surprised me about Russia's lack of success in Ukraine is its inability to gain air superiority and its lack of precision weapons. I think these things are related as if they could hit precise targets they could take out their enemy's SAM sites. The United States faced similar hardware in Iraq and reduced Iraq's air defenses with high-altitude stealth bombers and precision weapons. Russia obviously has none of the first and apparently very little of the second.
7:00 You are right. It's kind of overlooked. The U.S. Navy made globalized economy possible by making it safe for anyone to ship products and raw materials to and from anyone in the Breton Wood club.
Battle spirit is necessary too. We had good battle spirit 2001-2014. But new young people don't remember 9/11. Service is traditional in many families, particularly Native Americans. My family has been in English colonies to US today, over 400 years. Many family served at all levels in the 20th century. USAF, USN, USA and Marine Corp. Also DoD or defense contractor.
one thing thats crazy is that our whole military is voluntary so all those dudes choose to do that
Numbers don't matter when you have better equipment better trained troops and the will to fight and win, will always be the best strategy!!!
This is something people need to consider. We dont want peers. When it comes to military we are horribly sore losers and do not want to fight fair. If someone catch up on something we will whine about how unfair that is then dump billions into getting back to a lopsided scale again.
I’m 28 years old no kids nun I thought about joining but I rather help serve my local community than the country 💯🖤
What's with the black heart?
The US Navy is the only Blue Water Navy in the world. Meaning they are the only Navy that can operate in the open ocean, far away from the US shores.
On top of that, the US Navy can fight two wars in both major open oceans at the same time.
Oh yeah, the US Navy also has the 2nd most powerful Air Force in the world, behind the US Air Force.
The US Navy is the single most powerful organization to ever exist on earth.
Correction to the last the Department of the Navy is the single most powerful organization on earth. It’s an important distinction because the Marine Corps falls into the jurisdiction of the Dept of Navy and it’s with the Marines that it becomes so powerful with a land air and sea element
hell we don't even know how much technology we have.
The greatest strength of the US Military is the logistical aspects of warfare. The ability to keep vital supplies such as fuel, food, water ammunition, weapons and equipment, to the troops halfway across the world is absolutely insane. The US Logistical command is the beating heart of the beast that is the US military. You cannot run from it.
Your comment about size of armed forces is somewhat correct. America's doctrine to modern combat is not to throw countless bodies at the threat, but use as few bodies as needed to throw as few high tech solutions at the threat as needed. WW2 and Vietnam were the last wars where we used multiple dumb weapons thrown at one location to maybe hit the desired target (and destroy a lot of collateral targets around it). Since then, we went to guided munitions, drones, electronic warfare, and force multipliers (night vision, suppressed weapons, networked platforms, etc) to let a few operators dominate the battlefield as much as possible.
The biggest thing this video leaves out is the airmen, soldiers, seamen who make up the forces. They are all volounteers. They are doing it because they said I WANT to do this Not because someone made them or it was required. They take pride in their job, their country. They receive the best training, supplies and support while in the service and are respected because they chose to protect the citizens and our interests. This isn't a ragtag group of people thrown together. They fight for a purpose and for each other and that's the real strength of our military. Give someone great equipment without the heart and will and they will lose. "Thank you for your service (time in the military volountarily) is a common phrase here. We appreciate every one of them.
Fun fact. America is actually underpowered right now compared to what we could be. We currently only have about 2 million people that are serving. But if we were ever TRULY threatened, we have 86,000,000 people that are deemed fit for military service, and we'd sign up in droves!
I don't think your the only one that thought U.S.S.R. was a big and strong military than they really are. And surprised they didn't win the Ukrainian was in a couple of months. Think about all the secrets they don't mention about the U.S. in this video that is still top secret.✌️❤️
Sorry to nitpick, but the USSR doesn't exists anymore. In fact, Russia vs Ukraine is a war between two former members of the USSR.
11:15, you almost understood. It means it doesn't matter how many the Russians or Chinese have, we have those that actually function, and unlike them, are proven to.
The stat that always puts the US's military into perspective is the fact that of the top 10 largest air forces in the world, America has the first, second, fourth and seventh largest being the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines respectively. The total aircraft for the entire military is greater than the next 5 nations combined.
I work for a Navy/Department of Defense contractor and its interesting to see these types of videos. While they are informative, they are talking about "old" technology and capabilities where the Navy is concerned, so i assume its probably the same for the other branches. The Navy is far beyond the level of technology this video portrays them to be at.
The navy section does not underscore the massive amount of forward firepower a carrier group brings with it. These days a large amount of offensive and defensive capabilities are fully based upon cruise missiles that can be deployed and hit specific targets from 1,500 km away and are nearly impossible to intercept. The United States has a lot of very capable cruise missiles. Most of the submarines can launch around 150 cruise missiles (as well as nuclear SLBMs), and each destroyer has a similar amount as well. Then you have the Aegis equipped missile cruisers as well.
Russia has a very highly mechanized army (tanks). They are quite a bit older and less technically advanced compared to the United States and China. The United States also does not see tanks as being as important in its forward projection of force (important for defense). With precision missiles, bombs, drones, and artillery the take has less advantages for anything except for combating other tanks. And as we’ve seen in Ukraine, a few squads equipped with missiles are extremely effective at destroying tanks.
The United States offensive tactic is about maintaining air superiority. Once you dominate the sky, you can suppress the ability for forces to move, and that makes them easier to attack on your terms.
The tanks in the Army were originally planned to stop a soviet advance on Europe/NATO through the flatlands of Poland, it's why you see a lot of Army bases in Germany. It's also why the A10 was designed and built. Since the cold war ended, the assignments have been modified, and continue to serve with excellence on other fronts. Ex-navy guy here, got out in the 70's, all our armed services are the cream of the crop. Great equipment and fantastic training have lead to the best military this country has ever had. I enjoy watching your reactions, keep it up. Stay safe.
one thing that often gets overlooked is the 'US defense budget' numbers usually include all of the humanitarian spending, usually 1-200 billion of the 'military' spending was spent on humanitarian packages, food, medicine, and things like that given to other countries/groups
Yes, we have a lot of equipment, but the training of the personnel is what really matters. Knowing how to do your job very very well is what leads to confidence and success in the mission. For example we have less tanks, but each with a professional crew would not hesitate to go up against a greater number of inferior tanks/crews. This is the opposite of most of our likely foes, who just look at raw numbers.
carrier strike groups make up the buik of the US Navy. 9 carrier strikes groups as an offensive/defensive loadout makes the carriers the most dangerous arsenal of the US military. they project power and the last thing you want to see is a battle hardened carrier strike group sailing towards you
11:00 we have less tanks, but we don't count WWII museum pieces as weapons like Russia and China.
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You ae spot on about the Navy and Air Force. Hard to gain ground when you are knocked out of the air and the water first.
A single US ballistic missile sub, called a 'boomer' can hit 192 individual targets.
Army combay vehicles are mainly used for capturing and or holding land and makes sense that Russia and China would have more as they are most focused on land neighbors. America has no intentions or concerns about it's land borders. As you saw in the US vs the World video, is perfectly capable if figting and winning wars without using many land troops anywhere in the world.
The US flag strikes a decent balance between looking reasonably good, but also being fairly distinctive and not easily confused with a lot of other flags. A lot of flags manage one or the other of these criteria, but fewer are good at both. For example, the flag Brazil is very distinctive but doesn't look that great (in particular, some of the detail is much too fine to be easily seen under normal flag-viewing conditions, and also it has writing, which is a problem when the flag is flying and you happen to see the back side); whereas, the flag of France looks great but is one of 7842931 different flags that use one stripe each of red, white, and blue, so it gets zero points for distinctiveness. Other flags that manage both criteria well include the British Union Jack and the flags of Japan, Canada, and New Mexico, among others. And then there's the Maryland flag, which is so outlandishly hideous that you have to give it a certain amount of grudging respect for sheer audacity.
The Ukraine flag manages to be both simple and also distinctive, which is also a fairly rare combination. I do think the US flag looks better (mostly because all of its colors are either fully saturated, or else black or white), but it's undeniably a more visually complex design. Doing all three (strong colors, simple design, *and* distinctive) is VERY hard to achieve, although Japan managed it.
The difficulty of tracking a submarine depends on a number of factors, but the single most important is how often it has to approach the surface. All current US submarines are designed to remain deep under water for extended periods of time while traveling thousands of miles. This is not true for every country's submarine force, e.g., most of the PLA Navy's submarines are unable to move long distances without surfacing. People who just compare numbers tend to overlook this kind of difference, but it is very strategically important.
A lot of people expected Russia to accomplish more than it has done in the Ukraine war. It's true that Russia does have (or, at least, did have going into the war) a lot of military assets. The reasons why things did not go as planned are too many and too complex to fully explore in a TH-cam comment, but succinctly, some of the most critical issues holding them back were inferior training, botched logistics, poor leadership, bad morale, a bunch of ostensibly neutral countries slipping various forms of support (albeit, all short of actual boots on the ground) to Ukraine, and just enough wisdom to avoid doing some things that would have risked drawing more countries into the conflict in a greater way.
Yes, the US has fewer main battle tanks than Russia or China; but raw numbers don't tell you everything. The M1A1 is a good tank with good supplementary gear, and the US has the logistics to deploy them basically anywhere in the world on relatively short notice and can back them up with excellent situational intelligence and reasonably good close air support (although the A-10 is getting kind of old now, and drones are maybe not fully ready to replace it yet, and helicopters can be vulnerable if the situation is dicey). Also many of the career officers have significant experience in previous conflicts. Hopefully the US, Russia, and China will not get into an actual direct boots-on-the-ground shots-fired military conflict with one another, because that's uncomfortably close to global nuclear holocaust; but if you have to pick one of those three countries to fight against, don't pick America as your enemy. That's playing the game on the highest difficulty setting. (Well, technically, trying to *invade* America would be the very highest difficulty setting, but I don't think any country is going to attempt that any time soon. Managing the logistics of conducting such an invasion would be the seventh circle of hell even if you had Star Trek level technology.)
The flag of Liberia is most similar the flag of the US. Liberia's flag looks just like the US flag, with the same red white and blue colors, except that it has 1 large star instead of 50 small stars and 11 stripes instead of 13.
Glad to see this positive Comment about our Flag. Someone Told me the US Flag looks to complicated to draw 😂😂
As an American I've always thought the Arizona flag was one of the coolest state flags in the country. Search up "Thin Blue Line Arizona Flag" to see what I mean.
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Well, it is more visually complicated than the flags of e.g. Japan, France, Russia, or Ukraine. But two of these (France and Russia) aren't particularly distinctive (in fact, it's very easy to get them confused with each other), and the flag of Ukraine achieves its distinctiveness by using less popular colors. Japan's flag, admittedly, is better, but it's *unusually* good. (And you can't just copy somebody else's design. If a bunch of countries suddenly decided that Japan's is a nice flag and copied it by changing their own flags to be a solid circle on a solid background, then that wouldn't be distinctive any more.)
Personally, I would rather have a flag that's hard to draw, than a flag that's hard to *remember which country it is* when you see it, which is most of them.
The us doesn't really heavily on tanks because in a modern-day battle, the tank vs tank is very rare. Due to just as effective armored vehicles, artillery, infantry, and air assets. But ia tank is a very important piece but critical due to us doctrine.
the only way to track a sub is with another sub, we never know the exact position of 1 only a general area even though communications are encrypted they never report their exact position.
My family (patrilineal line) came to the British Colony of Virginia in 1674. Since then, the only wars we have missed were the Spanish-American War (great-grandfather was too old & grandfather was too young), the Korean War (dad didn't stay in the reserves after WW2), & Afghanistan. Dad flew B-25s, B-17s, & B-29s in WW2. My brother got shot down 3 times in Vietnam. I retired from the Army after 20+ years in 1995.
Many of Russia's replacement (non dead) soldiers apparently were recruited from jails last week or month so how good can they be and what is their morale and stake in the game?
Now Russia is conscripting migrants and refugees and also ordering POWs to the front lines to die as cannon fodder. Another illegal act by Putin and his Government.
He said 62,000 tanks, it 6,200 tanks. The one major advantage of US tanks over all other tanks: it can accurately fire on a moving target while moving at top speed itself. the firing system control software is insane. Also, as the narrator said, they pummel the hell out of the ground forces from the air before sending in troops and land vehicles.
The army, navy, and airforce are all top notch. I spent 5 years in the navy and loved it
Being an Engineer on ocean going vessels .. We were "United States Merchant Marine" our little cards allowed us more than a passport. In time of war almost everyone working boats, ships or almost anything water bound could be called into service. It is a pretty extensive force that is instantly available.
US Navy has 11 aircraft carrier strike group's and their the most technically advanced aircraft carrier's. And the second closest is United Kingdom with 2-3. United Kingdom is above China even though they have 2-5 aircraft carrier, the reason is because China has 1 newer generation of Aircraft carrier while 2-3 are Soviet era technology. While UK's Aircraft carrier's are all newer generation's.
The Navy is HUGE because as a basically "landlocked" Nation we have the most capability of "invasion" to other sea reachable nations like Japan or china. Just like France in WW2 the landing boats were absolutely huge in the success of the war because it allowed a fast allotment of troops onto frontline land to setup camps and supply points.
Our navy has the ability to move fighting forces all over the globe, which gives it the ultimate advantage. And keep forces elsewhere at the same time of equal strength.
Indeed. Navy Combat Engineer. We could be deployed anywhere on Earth, in 24 hours. Fight or Build, both.
this video u watching is a fail. I can give u a better impression of the size of the US military in one sentence: The largest air force on the planet is the US Air Force and the second largest, with huge distance to the other competitors, is the US Navy.
We put a lot of effort into making sure the fight happens elsewhere. I have never driven to work and wondered if a foreign jet was going to bomb me.
You hit the nail on the head - “imagine if it was Saudi Arabia [who ran the world].”
I can say as an American that we are not perfect, that we have screwed a lot of things up. But, in the words of Winston Churchill, “you can always count on America to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else.”
The world has seen other super powers - Persia, Rome, Britannia, etc - and none were as close to as charitable as the US has been. We’ve made mistakes, we’ve done bad things, but can anyone honestly say another country would be better?
We are a very weird nation in respect to the military and foreign relations. We were forged as a nation in combat, and have basically been fighting in war almost non stop our entire existence. And we are pretty, pretty, pretty good at it.
But we don’t actually like being Goliath. We basically want to fuck off to our own devices, plant some corn, invent some shit, make a couple bucks, and drink a beer with our friends. Honestly, I think commerce is more of our national spirit than the Martian arts, even if we do excel at the latter.
Martian arts? = whaaaat?
They can detect subs if they are at close range if attacking a carrier group, but by then usually destroyers and frigates will see them and rain misery....
The us army has a 5000acre training area that even the Brits use. When a foreign force comes to this facility, it is ‘cuz its THE largest of its type. As one Brit said : “ we have 500 acres. After awhile , you know where everything is”. In addition, ‘cuz this area is in the South, there are lots of poisonous snakes, as well
The thing about Russia is the location. Russia can outlast any invading army easily and is almost unconquerable because if the size and weather. They also have a dictatorship where they can throw millions of people to die and our politics would never do that. Russia can only dominate neighbors but no one else. They themselves are like a fortress more than a threat. Also, Russia can launch all their nukes at once, which causes the near end of the world, so there is also that.
11:25 You are correct and wrong at the same time, yes China and Russia have more tanks per se, but 1 of our tanks equals about 5 of theirs (if not more), just look at Desert Shield and Desert Storm for examples of the effectiveness of our tanks compared to the Russian tanks Iraq used. Chinese tanks are basically reverse engineered Russian tanks too.
One thing to remember about Russia, they don't have the equipment or much training with it.
For money reasons, the Russian government had been quite content to sell most of its good equipment to other nations.
In addition, the equipment they do have they skimp constantly to save on maintenance until its time for a parade or saber rattling contest.
The reason China and Russia have more tanks is because their countries and borders are bigger and wider. The number of tanks required to be stationed along the border also increased.
I'm a Navy guy through and through and have no problem saying the Marines are bad ass. Served with them.. worked with them.. would definitely fight for them. I think that's what makes us strong! Branches fighting together.
Stumbled on your channel tonight in Florida…excellent content my friend! God bless
There's an expression Americans have to describe Russia's recent standing; "A Paper Tiger" and I believe China is a far greater threat to contend with, but we must remember and learn from our mistakes in Vietnam, Afghanistan and other conflicts.
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You should totally play Call of Duty World War 2 that really grasps the scope of the US Military
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The saying about military technology in USA is what they tell you about is 20 yrs old or older.
I think most people should be happy the The United States is the world power. We by far do not always make the right decisions BUT we 1000% believe in freedom!
A Russian lady asked her Husband "Honey, who are we at war with?" the husband replied, "We're fighting Ukraine, who has the help of the US and NATO." The wife said "How is Ukraine doing?" The Husband responded by saying "Well they've had about 380,000 troops killed and wounded, and nearly 10,000 civilians have been killed." The wife says "Oh my... and what about Russia, how are we doing?" The husband says "we've had about 315,000 troops killed and wounded, nearly have of our tanks have been destroyed, and we're running low on ammo and equipment." The wife says "Jeez.. and what about the US and NATO?" The husband says "They haven't arrived yet."
Don't forget where we started from. We were behind so far that we had to start off with a bang. After that we just never stopped. Either way we can not get complacent and think we are invincible, nobody is.
To answer your question about satellites, yes some satellites can "see" below the water as in to map the bottom of the world's oceans. That said I do not know if the military ones can differentiate individual stuff below the water. The main problem is camera sensor resolution, say you do map the oceans from space. A square kilometer is at most a single pixel. (This knowledge derived from civilian camera equipment and stuff from the national weather service then extrapolated to assume that the military has better resolution) We can probably track surface vessels with satellites without issue but submarines underwater are probably not feasible to distinguish and track with just satellite surveillance only due to all the biomass in the world's oceans.
Along time ago when I was in the US Navy, (1974-1984) I remember seeing an interview. Walter Cronkite, a journalist interviewed the Soviet Premier, Leiodid Brezhnev. Now keep in mind that at that time the US population was much smaller. Cronkite asked Brezhnev if he had ever considered invading the USA. Brezhnev, with a horrid look on his face almost yelled "NO" ! Cronkite asked him why. Brezhnev answered....."200 million deer rifles" !
i used to be and gardener for the air force...if you happen to be near one of the bases they will often have air shows, well wither going to. a great low cost way to spend a weekend day.
So something to consider when you were talking about tank numbers. The US for a long time has always gone down the route of combined arms: Infantry supporting Tanks and Air assisting Naval assets not to mention other crossovers. Short of getting into a compromised position you would lose less tanks with a combined arms approach compared to just mass tank attack.
The United States has three of the top ten airforces in the world(USAF, US Navy, US Marines)
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This is how a global war (in this case both world wars) can traumatise an entire country for centuries
In FDR's own words from his legendary speech during the day of infamy in 1941: "I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us."
True to these words, the US has always made sure that it would never again be the victim of another major power