Pre-war our two most significant challengers in the world were the People’s Republic of China and Russia. Russia did a stupid thing and threw herself in to a grinding war of imperial conquest in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are putting up a hell of a fight and in the process are eliminating Russian conventional power for decades to come or the length of her present republic – whichever comes first.

The majority of the weapons requirements for the expected theaters of war are different. The Russo-Ukrainian War is a ground war with a small maritime theater and a short range, low altitude tactical aviation environment with a few cruise missiles and tactical ranged drones thrown in for measure. Any war around Taiwan will be a naval and aerospace war dominated by warships, rocket forces, and precision long range fires – with a land component limited in geography, range, and requirements.

[Be sure to read it all. — Ed]