The United States is the world's largest military power.

The Armed Forces of the United States, generally referred to as the U.S. Army, is the collective name for the armed forces owned by the United States. It is the most powerful military in the world today.

The U.S. military consists of the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

The number of active troops in the US military is 1,460,930, including 500,000 in the Army, 350,000 in the Navy and Air Force, and 180,000 in the Marine Corps.

Recently, U.S. research institutions released the 2018 U.S. Military Power Index report. This report, called the 2018 U.S. Military Power Index, was released by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank. The report analyzed the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and nuclear weapons equipment.

After careful evaluation, what kind of evaluation did they give in the end?

The report pointed out that the US military's combat capabilities and comprehensive military posture are gradually declining. The current military strength can cope with a single large-scale regional conflict, but cannot cope with two large-scale regional wars at the same time.

The report also pointed out that, more importantly, North Korea is not the biggest threat to the United States at present, but the military actions of China and Russia.

If we set our sights on 2025 and consider the population and economic conditions at that time, China may be the real biggest threat.

In other words, the US military is allowed to surrender directly in the event of failure without being punished.

However, we cannot just think that the US military is all cowards, cowards, and fearful of death.

Since World War I, we can see that the US military is still very ferocious on the battlefield.

For the U.S. Army, the think tank's overall rating is "weak", with its inherent scale and combat readiness rated as "weak" and its combat effectiveness as "passing."

The report states that although the U.S. Army's equipment is well maintained, it is quite old and it is difficult to purchase new equipment due to budget reductions.

The size of the Army was reduced during the Obama era, and now the U.S. Army is smaller. Currently, only one-third of the brigade combat teams can enter combat at any time.

The Army also faces shortages of heavy weapons, such as Patriot missiles and Hellfire missiles.

Except for encountering the perverted Japanese army in the Pacific battlefield, the number of prisoners captured by the US military in other wars was actually less than that of the opponent.

It was even more obvious in the European battlefields. The German army captured no more than 10,000 American soldiers. Before May 1945, the number of German soldiers captured by the US military actually exceeded 2 million.

The U.S. Navy's combat effectiveness was rated as "weak," while its inherent size, readiness, and overall ratings were rated "passing."

The Navy currently has 276 warships. Although the number has increased by 2 from 2016, this scale is not enough to maintain the US military's global influence.

In addition, due to personnel training and other reasons, combat effectiveness is also affected by insufficient training. This year, four warship collisions occurred in the U.S. Navy, resulting in the death of 17 naval soldiers.

Dakota Wood, an expert at the think tank, said the portion of the military budget for war preparations is too low but has not yet been increased because the investigation has not yet been completed, which highlights the navy's lack of training to control ship capabilities.

The navy's combat effectiveness should be further downgraded from "weak" to "very weak."

Therefore, in actual combat, once the US military is surrounded, it carries a lot of ammunition at any time.

The U.S. military was the only fully motorized military force in World War II. It carried a very high amount of supplies. The weapons and ammunition they carried could last for many days.

In addition, the US military has always had air superiority. Once a small group of US troops is surrounded, air strikes will come immediately. There is even 24-hour air protection, and bombers can bomb at any time.

In comparison, the U.S. nuclear arsenal has adequate war preparation capabilities, and its overall score is "passing", which is better than other military services.

However, the report also pointed out that most of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpiles were manufactured during the Cold War and have not yet been upgraded and modernized.

Its nuclear weapons scientists are also old and about to retire, while young scientists lack practical experience. The United States has not yet conducted nuclear weapons tests, which may cause some technical problems.

After the end of the Cold War, the possibility of a world war between the United States and the Soviet Union was almost completely eliminated.

The 1991 Gulf War showed that regional wars would become the main form of war faced by the United States in the post-Cold War era.

During the Bush administration, it was proposed to win two semi-regional wars around the world at the same time.

That is to say, the US military can simultaneously respond to a Gulf War-style local war in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, and at the same time, it can also respond to small-scale regional conflicts in other parts of the world.

During Clinton's administration, he proposed a strategy of winning two local wars at the same time, saying that the U.S. military must be able to win two major regional wars almost simultaneously.

By 2012, former President Obama decided to drastically cut the defense budget and reduce troop levels. At the same time, he claimed that the past two war strategies were a product of the Cold War era, and decided to change them to one that was always ready to win one war while effectively deterring another.

Strategy.

In addition to reports released by U.S. think tanks, the U.S. media has recently repeatedly badmouthed U.S. military power.

Currently, more than half of the U.S. Navy's fighter jets cannot fly.

The U.S. Air Force is short of at least 1,500 fighter pilots and 3,500 maintenance personnel.

The average service age of U.S. Air Force fighter jets has reached 27 years, while the Marine Corps’ flying time is often only 12 to 14 hours per month, which cannot meet the most basic training time.

The U.S. Army has only three brigades ready for combat.