Russia, America and cloning trap McNamara

Russia, America and cloning trap McNamara

New Russian Army

American totalitarian power

Russia to trap or double trap?

Unequal equation

Talk in Moscow and Washington for a new round of the arms race is no longer just warnings and guesses, Data issued by both sides confirm that the race already exists, and will grow steadily in the next few years in the light of the two faiths American and Russian militaries applications in the atheist and the twentieth century.

Issued a US State Department issued a statement a few days ago, pointing, in which he acknowledged for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union are equally Kvta nuclear balance of power between Russia and the United States in the number of nuclear warheads and the means to carry and transport. The ministry based its statement to confirm experts estimate that Russia will enter a new balance missiles "Yaris" military service, and is required in addition to the success in tests allocated to the launch of modern strategic submarines "Bulava" missile system.

"Evidence at the start of a new round of the arms race between the two countries is not limited to the military's nuclear arsenal, but also include the modernization of conventional weapons systems, defensive and offensive, and the development of combat troops and military capabilities and techniques used by"

Evidence at the start of a new round of the arms race between the two countries is not limited to the military's nuclear arsenal, but also include the renovation of traditional defensive and offensive weapons systems, and the development of combat forces military capabilities and techniques that you use, especially air and naval, including the anti-missile systems and early warning systems and communications, which it focuses declared armament plans, application for "Russian national Security Strategy until 2020" and "US military strategy for the 21st century", which was adopted at the close of 2009.

New Russian Army

Aspiring Russian plan to complete the task of modernizing the Russian army weapons until 2018, and includes hundreds of ballistic missiles developed intercontinental, including "Topoul- mother", and nearly 600 modern aircraft, mostly from the fifth generation, and a thousand multiple helicopter tasks and objectives, and build strategic bomber new will replace the bombers two strategies of model "Tupolev Tu-95" and "Tu Tu -160", and dozens of military ships and submarines, and systems, radar and missiles, "S-400" interceptor long-term, and copied the latest "S-500" capable of destroying all air targets, including tactical and strategic missiles after 3500 km, which have been successful trials last July.

This is in addition to the dozens of satellite devices intended for military purposes, and to provide ground forces thousands of tanks, armored vehicles and artillery systems of modern self-propelled .. etc.

American totalitarian power

In contrast, the United States seeks to maintain the "American totalitarian power" through the embodiment of "the US military strategy in the 21st century", developed by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

The launch of the strategy to reduce the traditional US military presence abroad, along with preserving the "qualitative edge military absolute", and the restructuring of the military capacity accordingly, giving the utmost importance for the production and modernization of high-tech weapons systems, for all the formations of the armed forces, to achieve one goal only is to increase American military superiority, especially in the air, air monitoring large budgets for military industries to secure the US Air Force's needs, so that they can carry out for long periods of war in the Middle East.

And operate the Obama administration to arm the air force with a large number of aircraft reconnaissance drone, and the latest means of electronic warfare, and increase the number of military transport aircraft "C17", and aircraft refueling in the air "KC-X", which believes in the ability of the implementation of the goals at any point of the planet. And the allocation of large sums of funds for the continuation of the traditional US strategy "sovereignty in the sea," as Obama calls Biden also plan to "America's absolute superiority in naval forces." In addition, the new doctrine include the Obama administration's commitment to "the deployment of US supremacy in space."

"Missile shield defense systems is an important priority," the US military strategy for the 21st century ", which is the most expensive military projects in terms of financial expenditure."

Defensive missile shield systems are considered as an important priority, "the US military strategy for the 21st century", which is the most expensive military projects in terms of financial expenditure. He pointed out that the Director of the US government watchdog Paul Frensis in a report to Congress, where he confirmed that he "gave the agency responsible for the missile shield funding financially unprecedented, and at the request of the Ministry of Defense in order to complete the missile shield systems between 2008 and 2013, has been transferred more than $ 50 billion ".

Russia to trap or double trap?

Historically, attributed the causes of ignition of the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and NATO, led by the United States, to the controversy that took place in 1949 on the future of Germany, where the Soviets were supporting the proposal and the unification of Germany, unlike the United States and other Western countries. At the beginning of the sixties of the last century, the race has taken a different turn, after the Soviet missile crisis in Cuba and American missiles in Turkey, where she worked for President John F. Kennedy administration to increase the arms race to the exhaustion of the Soviet Union economically.

His idea and develop plans process then US Secretary of Defense in 1968, Robert McNamara, has been working on this task later during his work as director of the World Bank until 1981, also mentions that it is the actual architect of the war in Vietnam under the name of "fighting communism."

Continued US administrations to work on the application of this principle, until it reached its peak during the reign of President Ronald Reagan launched what is called a draft "Strategic Defense" which is known as the "Star Wars", and proved later that it was only a deception, push the Soviet Union an economic hemorrhage dearly for it was dissolution of the reasons later.

The United States were not then able to monitor hundreds of billions of dollars for a project to develop a defensive missile system based on lasers and satellites out of the atmosphere to intercept ballistic missiles, as well as they were not possess adequate techniques to be implemented on the ground.

But the Reagan administration succeeded in passing Khaddiatha, and wounded from the Soviet Union fatal in the economy, which is trying to reproduction Obama administration against Russia. Some experts believe that Russia is not immune from falling into the trap, while others see it double trap because it is "double-edged sword", despite the big difference in the ability of both Russia and the United States to bear the consequences of a new round of the arms race.

As one of the repercussions of the Ukrainian crisis, returned to the fore of the arms race between Russia and the United States, in a position similar in many ways the dispute over the future of Germany in 1949, and simulates the conditions entrapped Cnamara economic drain.

"Spend Washington on armaments on average in the last ten years of 4% of GDP and equivalent to more than 44% of global spending in this area, while Russia spends about 4.5% of GDP, is expected to be up to 5% in 2016 "

Comparison between the spending of both the United States and the Russian Federation on the arms, and Washington is spending on armaments on average in the last ten years of 4% of GDP and the equivalent of more than 44% of global spending in this area, while the military spending ratio in Russia is approximately 4.5 % of GDP, is expected to be up to 5% in 2016.

In terms of numbers, for example, Washington has spent 619 billion US dollars in 2013, with the American military spending has fallen compared with the GDP from 4.8% in 2009 to 3.8% in 2013, as a result of the policy of fiscal austerity followed in the United States. While the size of the Russian military spending increased to nearly $ 70 billion in the same year, it is estimated to reach $ 100 billion in 2016.

Unlike the United States, the percentage increase in military spending in Russia pose a significant burden too on the Russian economy, much smaller than the US economy, in addition to the wide difference in the development of infrastructure and technological capabilities, and the ability of Washington to hire wars and conflicts in its favor within the two mechanisms, as was in the past funding partners for military operations and hold a large arms deals revive the military industries sector.

Russia faces a major challenge in the development of its economy, the economy is rentierism, reliance on oil and gas exports and raw materials, to the sophisticated and diversified economy. While emerged in recent signs of recovery in the US economy, as well as a note to prove its ability to cope with high levels of public debt.

Unequal equation

In light of the above, some economists Russians warn of the consequences of being sucked Russia into a new arms race would be straining the Russian economy, while the United States has an interest in igniting large wars are in favor of compensation for economic losses, as a result of the repercussions of the financial crisis in 2008, and revive its economy. If the decision-makers did not notice in Moscow for this can be that Russia is located in the clutches of an updated version trap McNamara, which occurred when the Soviet Union.

Source: Al Jazeera