The
best we can offer is a small unit of armored trucks. The truck mounted
infantry are cooperating with Hungarian forces to combat “Hybrid
Warfare.” Right.
“Forty-one
armored Stryker vehicles and 500 soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry
Regiment, known as the Dragoons, began crossing the Danube River on a
Hungarian pontoon bridge Thursday
morning in Gyor, Hungary. Over 96 hours, the regiment’s reconnaissance
squadron has been making a very public road march through Germany, the
Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.”
All
warfare is Hybrid in character. There is no such thing as a pure form
of warfare. The notion that US and allied forces should focus on the
“Low-Intensity” end of warfare ignores the Russian capacity to rapidly
escalate. American military capabilities should be based on sober threat analyses, not illusions. The Stryker Parade won’t fool anyone in Moscow.
The
Russians don’t do many things well, but the Russians have been
subverting, destabilizing, invading and conquering their neighbors since
Peter the Great. The idea that we are seeing something new in the form
of “little green men” is a measure of how little Americans know about
Russia. Soviet military planners incorporated the use of fifth column
forces into their theater level operational planning during the Cold War
as they did during WW II.
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