They Are At It ...

... again. RAND Europe published yet another pseudo-military BS. European "planners" are imbeciles. Yet, they continue to wet dream. 

In the context of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and an intensification of its subthreshold operations against the UK and its NATO Allies, there is now a credible threat of peer-level conflict in Europe by 2030. It is no longer a question of whether a war is possible, but whether we are prepared to fight one. In this paper, the authors examine a range of different potential dimensions to an illustrative hypothetical future NATO-Russia war, including the threats posed, the broader problems these threats represent, and potential means to mitigate or prevent them.

You cannot explain to an average product and "expert" from King's College or The Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) how ignorant and backward they are. They know nothing about war, they know nothing about modern battlefield technologies, operationally they are not even the third rate, because their Big Brother, without who they are nothing but third world shitholes, itself, for all its arrogance, is second rate at best.  Even media morons in the US begin to get it:

The US never had any preponderance, with the exception in the Navy through mid-1970s. The rest is a sanitized, bordering on the fairy tale, BS sold to the US military by its Wehrmacht and SS teachers.  

Anglo-American officers reasoned that the German army (Deutsches Heer) had often succeeded beyond expectations against the much larger Red Army in World War II. Since they anticipated fighting outnumbered the same enemy in World War III, they believed that had much to learn by adopting German practices, a narrative shaped by German generals. At the tactical level of war, the German army had won some stunning victories against larger forces, and that enthralled Anglo-American officers. Tactical virtuosity aside, that army was sorely bereft of any capable or serious strategic thought or action in either of its wars, but that was beside the point. Anglo-American admiration dovetailed with the much larger and more extensive project of rehabilitating Germany and its armed forces, and the German generals were only too eager to whitewash their crimes and tell their captors what they wanted to hear. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer led the political effort to rearm the forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Central to his efforts was cleansing the name of the Wehrmacht and numbers of its subordinate officers, noncommissioned officers, and enlisted men eagerly participated in these crimes against humanity. Organized murder and the enslavement or extermination of undesirables were central tenets of the Nazi strategy of territorial expansion. Hence, the myth of the clean Wehrmacht is a lie. With Adenauer and Halder having led the whitewashing of the Wehrmacht, an open American embrace followed. Starry ..., like DePuy, was impressed with the German army’s tactical prowess in World War II, never mind its strategic ineptitude and criminal conduct.

Reminds you anything today? Yep. Don't be surprised when butchers and war criminals from VSU will be brought to the US to "teach" BS pseudo-military "science" in the US War Colleges. That is why US flag-officer corps is a joke and the US military doesn't know what real war is, not to mention the sense of morality and real victory. 

Meanwhile, sixth of the pr. 636.6 SSKs, Yakutsk, joined Russian Pacific Fleet order of battle. 

That brings total of the Russian Pacific Fleet submarine forces (both nukes and SSKs) to 20-22 boats (depends of assessment), the expansion continues.