{"id":282340,"date":"2024-02-24T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282340"},"modified":"2024-02-25T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T08:21:39","slug":"report-us-using-ukraine-war-as-research-opportunity-for-future-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282340","title":{"rendered":"Report: US using Ukraine war as ‘research opportunity’ for future plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donated by the West, Ukrainian Army tanks on the battlefields of Ukraine. Click to enlarge<\/p>\n

Press TV \u2013 Feb 23, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

US military planners are using the Ukraine war as “an active and bountiful research opportunity” to prepare for a\u00a0conflict with more sophisticated adversaries such as Russia or China, The Washington Post says, citing officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The paper cited a\u00a0classified year-long study on the lessons learned from both sides of the bloody campaign, saying it will help inform the next National Defense Strategy, a sweeping document that aligns the Pentagon\u2019s myriad priorities.<\/p>\n

The study was led\u00a0by\u00a020 officers who examined five areas: ground maneuver, air power, information warfare, sustaining and growing forces and long range fire capability, the Post said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe immersed them in this conflict to make sure they were understanding the implications for warfare,\u201d\u00a0a senior unnamed military official told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Another official\u00a0said\u00a0the lessons taken from Ukraine stand to be \u201can enduring resource.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Ukraine has demonstrated that everything US\u00a0troops do in the field \u2014 from planning missions and patrolling to the technology that enables virtually every military task \u2014 needs to be rethought,” the paper cited<\/a>\u00a0the officials as saying.<\/p>\n

Washington and its NATO partners have viewed Ukraine as a proxy war to weaken Russia. While the Biden administration has touted this policy as \u201cfor Ukraine,\u201d it has severely harmed the country.<\/p>\n

In the early months of the war, Kiev nearly reached an agreement with Moscow to end the conflict and Russian forces would withdraw to the pre-invasion lines. However, Washington and London pressured the Ukrainian leadership to abandon the diplomatic path.<\/p>\n

Since then, Russia has annexed four Ukrainian oblasts and is advancing in key areas along the front. Ukraine is struggling to arm its forces and has suffered 500,000 casualties. Recently, the war has escalated to attacks on cities while Ukraine has suffered substantial infrastructure damage.<\/p>\n

Last week,\u00a0Russia\u00a0achieved\u00a0its first major territorial success in more than nine months in the Ukraine war, capturing the eastern city of Avdiivka.<\/p>\n

A soldier who escaped the city told Associated Press that the Ukrainians were outnumbered five to one.<\/p>\n

One Ukrainian told the news agency of Kiev\u2019s increasingly aggressive conscription policy.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a feeling that everyone wants to throw you in a meat grinder,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Ukraine’s armed forces said Russia had intensified attacks in the eastern Donetsk region, focusing on the town of Maryinka after capturing Avdiivka.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky this week described the situation on the front as “extremely difficult” due to delayed Western supplies of military aid.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, more than 6 million Ukrainians who took refuge in\u00a0Europe, the United States and\u00a0Canada after the war broke out on\u00a0Feb. 24, 2022\u00a0worry\u00a0whether they will ever be allowed to settle in the long-term.<\/p>\n

With no end to the war in sight, governments that offered\u00a0them short-term help now face a much bigger bill than they\u00a0expected and are looking to control the spending.<\/p>\n

But Western arms manufacturers are reaping exorbitant profits from the prolongation of the war.<\/p>\n

US weapons sales overseas rose sharply last year, reaching a record total of $238 billion.\u00a0The US government directly negotiated $81 billion\u00a0in sales, a 56% increase from 2022, the State Department reported.<\/p>\n

The rest were direct sales by US military\u00a0companies to foreign nations.\u00a0Ukraine’s neighbor Poland, currently on a drive to expand its military, made some of the biggest purchases to a tune of $30 billion from the United States.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, British arms maker BAE Systems reported record profit of \u00a325.3 billion\u00a0in 2023\u00a0amid Ukraine and Gaza wars<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon is reportedly using the conflict in Ukraine as a test ground to formulate a new approach to war. As a result of the lessons learned, the U.S. has been forced to reassess its use of air power, patrolling, information warfare and long-range fire power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":269849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282343,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282340\/revisions\/282343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}