US Losing Military Edge in a World of Growing Chaos

America has for far too long focused all its concentration on chasing an endless supply of terrorists in the Middle East, which are proxies of the Soviet Union designed to distract and drain economic and strategic resources, all while it rearms and modernizes.

 

Pentagon warns that civil wars, collapsed states and new wars have increased instability around the world while the US military advantage of other countries has declined.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Civil wars, collapsed states and new wars have increased instability around the world while the US military advantage of other countries has declined, the US Department of Defense’s new 2015 National Military Strategy warned.

“[G]global disorder has significantly increased while some of our comparative military advantage has begun to erode,” the document released on Wednesday said. “We now face multiple, simultaneous security challenges from traditional state actors and trans-regional networks of sub-state groups.” Continue reading