Top Army Leader: Here Is America’s Most Dangerous Threat

By Theodore Schleifer and Jim Sciutto. The outgoing Army chief of staff said Wednesday that Russia posed the “most dangerous” threat facing the United States today, thanks to its “sophisticated” operations in Ukraine.

Gen. Raymond Odierno, who is leaving his post, estimated that only a third of U.S. brigades are capable of operating at the level of the hybrid warfare Russia is undertaking there. And he worries that Russia could next intervene in NATO allies like Latvia or Estonia.

“They are more mature than some other of our potential adversaries, and I think they have some stated intents that concern me in terms of how the Cold War ended,” Odierno said of Russia when asked by CNN. “They have shown some significant capability in Ukraine to do operations that are fairly sophisticated, and so, for me, I think we should pay a lot of attention.” (Read more from “Top Army Leader: Here Is America’s Most Dangerous Threat” HERE)
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Russia vs. NATO – It’s War Time

By Polina Tikhonova. Analysts at the European Leadership Network think tank conducted an analysis of large-scale military drills that took place in March by Russia as well as smaller military drills carried out by NATO in June.

The analysts concluded that the “nature and scale” of the drills showed that “Russia is actively preparing for a conflict with NATO. . .

A Russian Lt. Gen expressed his opinion that if Ukrainian forces decide to cross the ceasefire line to try take back eastern Ukraine, it would unleash a [wider] war.

Russian troops have launched some of their heaviest artillery attacks on the Ukrainian forces’ positions in six months.

According to Russia military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer. back in February 2013 the chief of the General Staff of Russia, Valeriy Gerasimov, warned that a ‘great war’ was coming. (Read more from this story HERE)

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