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  • Losing Military Supremacy

  • The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
  • By: Andrei Martyanov
  • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (55 ratings)
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Summary

Time after time, the American military has failed to match lofty declarations about its superiority, producing instead a mediocre record of military accomplishments. Starting from the Korean War, the United States hasn't won a single war against a technologically inferior, but mentally tough, enemy. The technological dimension of American "strategy" has completely overshadowed any concern with the social, cultural, operational, and even tactical requirements of military (and political) conflict. With a new cold war with Russia emerging, the United States enters a new period of geopolitical turbulence completely unprepared in any meaningful way - intellectually, economically, militarily, or culturally - to face a reality which was hidden for the last 70-plus years behind the curtain of never-ending Chalabi moments and a strategic delusion concerning Russia, whose history the US viewed through a Solzhenitsified caricature kept alive by a powerful neocon lobby, which even today dominates US policy makers' minds.

This book explores the dramatic difference between the Russian and US approach to warfare, which manifests itself across the whole spectrum of activities from art and the economy to the respective national cultures; illustrates the fact that Russian economic, military, and cultural realities and power are no longer what American "elites" think they are by addressing Russia's new and elevated capacities in the areas of traditional warfare, as well as cyberwarfare and space; and studies several ways in-depth in which the US can simply stumble into conflict with Russia and what must be done to avoid it.

Martyanov's former Soviet military background enables deep insight into the fundamental issues of warfare and military power as a function of national power-assessed correctly, not through the lens of Wall Street "economic" indices and a FIRE economy but through the numbers of enclosed technological cycles and culture, much of which has been shaped in Russia by continental warfare and which is practically absent in the US.

©2018 Andrei Martyanov (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Skyboat Media
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Extremely insightful

The author does and excellent job at showing that the balance of power between Russia and USA is not quite what the media makes it to be.
It shatters so many myths about the US and Russia that it changes the way you look at the world.

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excellent a must read

www3 will be won by Russia hands down, this an excellent book on Russia^s military power and the US delusion of their own supremacy

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This has become a comedy due to recent events :)

This book has aged like rotten fetid milk.... and has now become an unintentional comedy.

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insightful

Eye opening view on modern military comparison between the real and the perceived and it's ramifications related to geopolitics.

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Stalin was a saint putin is Santa Claus

This is a puff piece for how wonderful Russia is - how lovely Stalin was the gulags were a holiday camp, Russian soldiers are the best , Georgia invaded Russia so Russia just had to retaliate even though they did not want to. And so on ad Infinitum. Solzhenitsyn was a traitor and a fool. Democracy is wrong for Russia - Russia needs a strong man like Stalin. An the purges, mass famine, collectivisation never happened and if they did it was nothing to do with Stalin. And Russians wear hats and shoes - really ? Sigh

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A complete eye opener

If a book could encapsulate the present state and status of the worlds military and the constant underestimation of Russia roll in history and her presence in the new world order this book does it. A must for any student of history and a definite must for those whose ignorance of history and the current situation in the world could learn much from this brilliant narrative.

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Written in 2018, proven painfully accurate by today in 2024.

This book was maybe unknowingly foreshadowing the complete humiliation of the entire NATO armies in Ukraine, with the now very obvious decline of the collective West, on all aspects of civilisation: morally, religiously, culturally, economically, industrially, scientifically, militarily…
The racist supremacist colonialist ideology of the West is finally after hundreds of years of genocides all over the world, and an accumulated hundreds of millions of deaths over that period, showing the signs of coming to an end!
Maybe the world can finally be rid of their ideological madness, and enjoy some real fruitful human progress.
Unfortunately there’s still a lot of people who will die and suffer while the collapse unfolds. I pray Palestine doesn’t suffer the fate of the native americans.

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Propaganda, and interesting in that capacity

The author's central thesis is that the US, having internalised the false narrative that it was the principal military contributor to victory in WW2, has developed an increasingly distorted perception of its military capabilities and of the nature of full-scale armed conflict, and that this false self-perception now poses a great danger to American interests in the supposedly inevitable "Multipolar World".

There is clearly some truth to that thesis, even in the particular criticisms of certain American military doctrines and of the American education system and economy, but this is not an objective examination of the US's real military capacity or of 20th century history, but rather essentially a pro-Putin polemic against the "Russophobic" West.

There is real value here for those who want to understand the mainstream Russian view of 20th century history and the relationship between Russia and the US/Europe in the post-Soviet era, but the content can't be accepted uncritically.

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hilarious

This is Russian propaganda. Seems to be written by someone aged about 12 as it's arguments are laughably false to anyone with a basic school understanding of history .
Gave it 2 stars overall as it is funny .

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some interesting facts, if you can get past the wholesale russia bias and propaganda

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