What's interesting is that "large-scale" future combat will more likely be asymmetric in the sense that small, distributed forces will be capable of destroying larger static ones. Systems confrontation and systems destruction, as the Chinese call it. https://twitter.com/haltman/status/1312057750986268677

I've worked with too many Army leaders who think GPC and (as they say) "near-peer" conflict will be like a return to Cold War planning for mass engagements with the Red Army. Nothing is farther from the truth. That's not how China or Russia intends to fight us.

Additionally, constraints on staging, transport, and basing inherent in the battlespace geography of any fight with a peer competitor mean that 'blue' forces will inevitably be much smaller than and outnumbered by 'red.'

For the first time in a generation or two, US forces would be fighting outnumbered & matched, if not actually outgunned. They're also likely to be isolated, sporadic supply & unreliable comms with higher command, which essentially gut the US military's two greatest strengths.

@steven_metz @MartinSkold2 I was thinking about this last night in this thread.