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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
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By: Andrei Martyanov
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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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relevant and insightful

This book has aged quite well. Although unsurprisingly the authors predictions are largely borne out. It is worthwhile for Americans to take heed of his advice.

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Well researched book on geopolitics and US military

A well structured, researched and documented outline of the geopolitical world we are all currently living in. Andrei Martyanov presents a clear and cogent narrative of not only the military aspects but also the political angle in Losing Military Supremacy. I highly recommend this book to any one looking for a well researched book from an author who has experience from both the Eastern and Western perspectives. Goes well with anything by John J Mearsheimer.

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sobering review and ominous foreshadowing

sobering analysis of the US military failures of the last 20 years. excellent listen.

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Essential reading for every western citizen

Martyanov writes clearly, soberly and impressively about the increasingly unhinged and hubristic policies and actions of America and its western Allie’s in international spheres, which he says (quite rightly) is based on the illusion held by American political and military leaders regarding American relative superiority in military capacities and capabilities, a view not born out by the facts. All westerners should read this book and expand their own world view to help counter the increasingly prevalent and destructive Russo and Cino-phobic tendencies displayed by western politicians words and deeds and peddled by compliant western media, allowed by the ignorance of the populace of western countries of thevtruecststevofvtheceorld and America’s place within a reshaping world order. Such knowledge is crucial to curbing the excesses of the western ruling class through popular debate designed to foster a reset in western countries of how the west might engage with the rest of the world in order to avoid the real and present risk of major industrial scale warfare, toward which they west seems to be inevitably pushing us toward, if things do not change!! A must read especially for the young !!!

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Riddled with lies and innacuracies

I lost track of how many lies and innacuracies there were in this book. in the intro it was stated the US Army has never fought a war on its own soil to protect its borders, although it later acknowledges the war of 1812 it forgets the war of independence. Then it claims Russia is the only country other than the US to develop a GPS system, ignoring the European Gslileo or Chinese BeiDou systems. By the time the author says "The overwhelming majority of Russian would rather have one car than two in a family if the trade off is a good investment in the armed forces" I found myself asking if the average Russian family has even one car, luckily Wikipedia suggested there were enough cars for each family to have one.

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