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Report: Army Ill Prepared For Future High-End War With Near-Peer Nation

Report: Army Ill Prepared For Future High-End War With Near-Peer Nation
A U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tank from 1st Tank Battalion, Twenty-Nine Palms, California, sits entrenched in a defensive position during Clear, Hold, Build Exercise (CHBX) 3, one of several pre-deployment training exercises during Enhanced Mojave Viper held on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty-Nine Palms, California, on Sept. 1, 2010. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Orlando Perez/Released)

The Army after 15 years of counterinsurgency wars in the Middle East is proficient at fighting small, low-intensity wars but is ill prepared to counter a near-peer in a high-end conventional conflict, according to a new report by the Atlantic Council.“We have designed by default, for good reason, an Army that doesn’t do any of those things well today because of what we have been fighting the last 15 years,” said David Barno, co-author of the report “The Future of…

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