MASSIVE RETALIATION AGAINST UNEQUAL MILITARY POWERS (UMPS)

Abstract

The 21st Century wars are mainly between the Unequal Military Powers (UMPs), in which the US-led West wages a war against an Islamic State, destroys it completely, and then leaves it in haste, without a worthwhile Marshall Plan. Afghan War II and Iraq War II amply justify the assertions that the sole superpower with the strongest military in the history of warfare, the United States (US) massively reacts against the relatively weaker opponent. However, what is intriguing is to note that the US, despite its military might and technological prowess, has never fought a war against an Equal Military Power (EMP), or even a Near-Equal Military Power (NEMP). The US politico-military leadership carefully selects a weaker enemy that is far away from its territory and puts the boots on the ground only after it has leveled the ground by bombing the target country’s nominal air defense systems. This article aims to understand the logic behind US wars against UMPs in which it retaliated massively thus defying the logical introduction of hybrid warfare at the onset of the 21st Century by American theorists.