{"id":338806,"date":"2017-12-10T17:07:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-would-lose-war-with-russia-china-rand\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T17:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T16:07:40","slug":"presstv-us-would-lose-war-with-russia-china-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-would-lose-war-with-russia-china-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US would lose war with Russia, China: RAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States will likely lose a military confrontation with either Russia and China, US think tank RAND Corporation says, warning about the US military\u2019s insufficient training and readiness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its latest report, titled &#8220;US Military Capabilities and Forces for a Dangerous World,\u201d the California-based think tank warned that the American military was standing little chance to win a possible conflict with Russia in Europe or with China over Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to their major technology advancements over the past years, Russia and China have now reached a level that they can top the US in certain areas of military prowess, the 190-page document\u2019s authors said, warning that limited budget and a lack of enough forces to support the \u201cambitious\u201d US military plan were hindering American forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Put more starkly, assessments in this report will show that US forces could, under plausible assumptions, lose the next war they are called upon to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/10\/545132\/US-military-Russia-China-war-RAND\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will likely lose a military confrontation with either Russia and China, US think tank RAND Corporation says, warning about the US military\u2019s insufficient training and readiness. In its latest report, titled &#8220;US Military Capabilities and Forces for a Dangerous World,\u201d the California-based think tank warned that the American military was standing little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}