Those who served - would you say the US military is still the best in the world?

We still have the best military in the world. No one can even come close to matching our military. Best military this planet has ever seen.

Yes.

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Those who served - would you say the US military is still the best in the world?

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Yes, but that does not mean we can just blow anyone right out of the water

If we get into WW3 we will take many losses and might even lose if we don't put our best foot forward

Israel's more efficient.

I served. It’s not our military I am concerned about it’s our leaders and how that impacts our military. Just one veterans personal opinion.

Yeah our equipment and training is so much better and we have so much more of it than anyone else

My assumption is that our military - in a clearly defined conflict where we're not focused on making sure the indigenous force is handheld and in the fight and we're not trying to follow some script about peacekeeping/avoiding occupation/etc. - would still dominate

I've been off active duty since 2005 and for awhile there worked as a DA Civilian up until 2019. I think any of us Veterans who look at the younger generation's military will always think of them as softer than when we were in but I do have some genuine concerns, part of that is due to our culture as well as our battle readiness.

I won't get too much into the culture part of that statement as I think a hot war would fix some of that in short order. I think with the draw down in the ME, our military has had too much time on their hands that have allowed politicians to use us for social experiments, but that would quickly change in the event of an actual war popping off in my opinion.

My larger concern is the readiness of our military to fight a near peer adversary such as a Russia (Not as big a threat as originally feared) or more importantly, China in a multi domain operations, large scale ground war. For decades we've been stuck in the ME fighting COIN operations against cavemen without the technological capabilities to project their power across the globe with the exceptions of limited strikes like what happened on 9/11. We may have the experience advantage in actual combat, but will need to retrain to fight non COIN operations, and that was a big point of focus when I left in 2019 when Trump was still in office. I honestly don't know if that is the focus under this administration.

As I mentioned earlier, we have to adapt to fighting across the board in a MDO. A topic of discussion back then was that the military is going to have to change to keep up with China when it comes to recruitment, especially to fight the cyber war. The military just won't be able to attract the most talented cyber folks with low paying junior enlisted or officer pay. It is one field where I and others believe the military is going to have to start admitting folks like that at advanced rank otherwise they won't come to the military. It will be weird and a tough adjustment but the ground pounders are going to have to accept the fact that for some careers in the military, especially in cyber, folks are going to be coming in as majors or higher straight out of college. Keep in mind, these folks will never be picking up a rifle on the battlefield, they don't have that sort of experience.

It's the most overwhelming in the world.

It's not nearly as good as it could be.

Yes. Training and combat readiness could be improved but still #1.