The Pentagon has identified Kaliningrad as one of its priority goals

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The integrated air defense system of the Kaliningrad region is under the scrutiny of the US European Command, which is developing plans for its destruction. This was reported by Breaking Defense.

The Pentagon has identified Kaliningrad as one of its priority goals




US forces continue to develop the concept of the so-called multi-domain war. The strategy presented in the 2016 year involves the accurate and coordinated work of all the armed forces. The objects of application of the new tactics may be territories and points of greatest concern to the Pentagon.

If we need to destroy, for example, the Kaliningrad Integrated Air Defense System, let no one have any doubt that we have a plan for this. We are always in search of solutions, learning, thinking out new ways. And we will be ready for the right moment.

- said Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigan, commander of the US Air Force in Europe, at the Air, Space & Cyber ​​(ASC) conference of the Air Force Association.

Harrigan notes that Kaliningrad is in the spotlight of the United States as an enclave from which Moscow could attack neighboring countries. He argues that if Russia's "aggression" from this strategically located point requires a US response, "it will be multi-domain, timely and effective."

The publication considers the Russian missile defense and air defense, as well as missile strike units located in the Kaliningrad region, as forces capable of threatening a significant part of NATO, which forces the U.S. Air Force, in particular, to study various ways of protecting its bases and air forces.

In turn, Russian launchers are also within reach of NATO warships in the Baltic Sea and NATO artillery installations onshore: and, potentially, are within reach and tanks NATO.

Attack on Kaliningrad will be multi-domain


The general did not provide details of a possible attack plan. However, it is clear that the mission, previously considered as a purely air operation, relies on mixed and coordinated actions of various military branches.

At the same time, the United States is not yet ready for a multi-domain war. It is noted that the previous place of work of Harrigan was the Central Command of the Air Force, where he acted as commander aviation in the Middle East: it was there that the Pentagon first tried to coordinate the actions of its disparate units according to the canon of multi-domain operations.

The problem is that one such operation takes days, weeks, or even months of painstaking preparation, since it is necessary to bring together different departments, doctrines and legal bodies. The military notes that this is too slow a pace for a big war against such an adversary as Russia or China. The Pentagon is now considering ways to remedy this situation, especially in the context of NATO.
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    1. +12
      20 September 2019 00: 25
      And the Kremlin has designated the Pentagon as one of its priority goals. lol
      1. 0
        20 September 2019 02: 33
        It will not be enough
        1. +16
          20 September 2019 04: 52
          The United States, without any shyness, is openly preparing for war with Russia at our borders. True, while still demagogically continuing to declare that they allegedly have only “reciprocal defense”!

          Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s “DEFENSE” in Europe from the NATO countries doesn’t even smell from Russia at all - it smells like an armed attack on the Russian Federation by the USA and NATO. Those. the outbreak of their predatory war in Europe with Russia.

          In other words, the Pentagon is already practically open to prepare for FULL-SCALE armed attack on Russia. The only question is when will they start the war?
          1. +10
            20 September 2019 06: 28
            The United States, without any shyness, is openly preparing for war with Russia at our borders.

            I fully support you. As a resident of Kaliningrad, I do not like such news, to put it mildly. For a long time I keep at home the set is dry. rations and canned food with fresh water in case of war. Only there is nowhere to run from the area. Squeezed between enemies who quickly turn into enemies. All this is sad.
            1. +6
              20 September 2019 06: 45
              No need to lose heart! If the citizens of the NATO countries knew what our General Staff had set out in the form of goals and which plans they were preparing ... the shelves in their stores would be empty instantly ... well, the rallies We-For Peace ... would overwhelm the Old World and the New! Nobody needs war! Well, let the military continue to draw arrows on the maps - they have such a job! drinks
            2. +2
              20 September 2019 14: 12
              Quote: Sharky
              I keep the set dry for a long time. rations and canned food with fresh water in case of war.

              Have you identified a stash point? I, myself have defined the "triangle", Polessk-Sosnovka-Krasnoe. Based in Polessk.
              1. +1
                20 September 2019 21: 50
                Have you identified a stash point? I, myself have defined the "triangle", Polessk-Sosnovka-Krasnoe. Based in Polessk.

                Greetings, fellow countryman. Scheduled.
                I think first to leave the city through Spandin to the Coastal. It is a crazy idea to leave the boat on a skeleton first in the Kaliningrad Bay, sit there ... then break further from the region through Baltiysk, which is likely to be bombed (there is a motor boat of its own). Although, I do not really believe in it. But, in the occupied region there is definitely nothing to do. If everything drags on, then no caches will last even a year. I have a wife in the load. It's harder with parents. And to everything else, I can be at sea (sailor). Then everything was covered with a copper basin. I will be saved only by not returning home.
          2. +2
            20 September 2019 06: 29
            When? But when we sign a nonaggression pact, then soon.
    2. +7
      20 September 2019 00: 31
      This means that the Yankees already directly, from the Pentagon, recognize the great difficulties that arise immediately at the planning stage of the attack on the Kaliningra region. We can say this is praise to all the defenders for 10 years of work. Recognition of the quality of work from a potential adversary!
    3. +2
      20 September 2019 00: 38
      If we need to destroy, for example, the United States of Matrasia, let no one have any doubt that we have a plan for this. We are always in search of solutions, learning, thinking out new ways. And we will be ready for the right moment.

      However, it will not come to this - in fact, the USA has ALREADY collapsed from the inside. For example, in addition to the slogans - they have no nichrome. Kaliningrad air defense they will destroy! You will first sew what you tore in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq - and the wild barmalei with Kalash broke
      1. +7
        20 September 2019 03: 04
        However, it will not come to this - in fact, the USA has ALREADY collapsed from the inside.

        Do not underestimate the United States ... they still will present us a lot of dirty tricks.
        Their troops are on our borders and not vice versa ... therefore, one must be prepared for NATO aggression led by the United States against Russia at any time.
        For those who do not believe in the attack of these aggressors on us, remember the story of the annihilation of Yugoslavia ... in no case should you relax and rely on the power of Russia's nuclear weapons ... the adversary is treacherous and powerful ... can strike stealthily in the weakest spot of our state.
      2. +11
        20 September 2019 03: 15
        Quote: RWMos
        US ALREADY collapsed from within
        With their caps, their caps.
        Quote: RWMos
        For example, in addition to the slogans - they have no nichrome.
        Underestimating the enemy very often leads to fatal consequences. Hitler also considered the USSR a colossus on clay feet.
        1. 0
          20 September 2019 04: 45
          ... about the same thing I was told without exception by all my friends when I said that TNCs inevitably destroy statehood in the country in which they arose. I myself took it from a course of lectures that were given to us already in the 1994 year ... And it reached the Americans only with the election of Trump ...
          A hat is a good thing. when it is jammed over the ears so that the view closes. And no one has ever seen an apparently stable empire collapse, such as Byzantium — it determined politics throughout the region, right up to the Varangians, from whom the path to the Greeks went, but oops - and a kayuk.
          An example - in the world of color revolutions are sponsored by the United States. Heaped on their own - do not arise. But the emergence of bulk will lead to a crisis - Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine as an example. Now look at the Okasio Cortes. We see the bulk. And they arose on their own. And in all seriousness they can really win the election with the slogans to ban cows and air travel. And what is this if not a total paragraph to the system?
          1. +3
            20 September 2019 08: 28
            Quote: RWMos
            Heaped on their own - do not arise.
            "Bulk" and other aggressively-minded opposition arises primarily where there are prerequisites for this. And in Russia, with its rapidly deteriorating standard of living and falling incomes of the population, there are just prerequisites for this. The power itself, with its predatory reforms, gives rise to people like Navalny. By the way, in the last elections Navalny with his "smart voting" helped the systemic opposition to strengthen its positions in regional administrations. In Khabarovsk, for example, the Liberal Democratic Party won the elections, United Russia was kicked out of the Moscow Regional Duma. In other regions, the unit also lost a significant number of mandates. And it's great!
            Quote: RWMos
            Now look at the Okasio Cortes.
            And we see nothing. First time I hear about her, yeah. In general, such politicians regularly appear on the political horizon of the United States. In the past decade, Republican (!!!) Ron Paul has thundered with his "policy of isolation", lowered taxation, a decrease in the number of federal departments and non-interference in the affairs of other countries.
            1. +1
              20 September 2019 08: 36
              "Bulk" and other aggressively-minded opposition arises primarily where there are prerequisites for this.

              Therefore, they need to be sponsored by allocating a separate line from the US state budget - is that why they themselves do not "appear where there are prerequisites for this?" But only where "there is money for this from the State Department, coupled with wise leaders and training Navalenkov and Vakarchuks in the relevant US universities on this topic?"
              And we don’t see anything. The first time I hear about her, yeah.

              Then I recommend visiting an ophthalmologist, or first, at least a little understanding of the topic, about which they were going to argue. US Senator, US presidential candidate. And which is typical, for its occurrence, no one allocated from the US budget support funds for democracy
        2. 0
          20 September 2019 07: 33
          Quote: Greenwood
          With their caps, their caps.

          Megaton hats. And the question. Will the US protect Europe in doing so
          1. 0
            20 September 2019 08: 29
            Quote: Tusv
            And the question. Will the US protect Europe in doing so
            After that, you will not be up to questions.
    4. +17
      20 September 2019 01: 07
      in an attack on any part of the territory of Russia by a NATO country, a nuclear strike is immediately dealt to the most populated cities of the United States, the President and the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation should officially declare this
      so that no more speculations and thoughts from NATO members
      1. +7
        20 September 2019 04: 33
        Quote: Graz
        in an attack on any part of the territory of Russia by a NATO country, a nuclear strike is immediately dealt to the most populated cities of the United States, the President and the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation should officially declare this
        so that no more speculations and thoughts from NATO members

        But didn’t GDP declare the use of nuclear weapons in aggression against Russia with conventional weapons and didn’t it claim that it would strike at decision centers.
        1. +2
          20 September 2019 07: 33
          did not declare. stated another
          Military doctrine of the Russian Federation ....
          27. The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction against it and (or) its allies, as well as in the case of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is threatened.

          The decision to use nuclear weapons is made by the President of the Russian Federation .....

          The president is nevertheless calmer and more consistent with the use of nuclear weapons than some require ....
    5. +3
      20 September 2019 01: 20
      And they all dream that Russia will not use nuclear weapons in the event of an attack on it ... So far, the president will apply the GDP without hesitation. Because they wait, they won’t wait when ...
      1. -5
        20 September 2019 03: 17
        Quote: Mountain Shooter
        And they all dream that Russia will not use nuclear weapons in the event of an attack on it ...
        Why attack Russia? What will this give the States?
        Quote: Mountain Shooter
        While the president will apply GDP, without hesitation.
        Did he tell you about this?
        Quote: Mountain Shooter
        Because they wait, they won’t wait when ...
        In addition to GDP, there was Medvedev, before him was Yeltsin, and before him Gorbachev. Why didn’t they attack?
        1. +1
          20 September 2019 07: 07
          Quote: Greenwood
          In addition to GDP, there was Medvedev, before him was Yeltsin, and before him Gorbachev. Why didn’t they attack?

          Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, there was no need to attack. They themselves gave everything.
          Medvedev gave the order to "enforce peace" on Georgia. Remind me why Georgia attacked Tskhinvali? From whose submission?
          And now they howl, yap, but QUIET!
          1. -1
            20 September 2019 08: 08
            Quote: Mountain Shooter
            Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin, there was no need to attack. They themselves gave everything.
            And now something has changed dramatically? Yes, we blow our cheeks at UN meetings. But in fact, the Americans receive from us everything that they require.
            Quote: Mountain Shooter
            Medvedev gave the order to "enforce peace" on Georgia. Remind me why Georgia attacked Tskhinvali? From whose submission?
            From the filing of a tyrant Saakashvili. Everything else is your speculation.
            Quote: Mountain Shooter
            And now they howl, yap, but QUIET!
            Very quiet. The sanctions were imposed - and the ruble flew down. It’s not funny for yourself?
            1. 0
              20 September 2019 08: 16
              Quote: Greenwood
              Very quiet. The sanctions were imposed - and the ruble flew down. It’s not funny for yourself?

              I'm not laughing. The products of my company now compete well with the European ones both in Russia and in Europe. It used to be harder laughing
            2. 0
              20 September 2019 11: 45
              Quote: Greenwood
              Very quiet. The sanctions were imposed - and the ruble flew down.

              The ruble was dropped by our home-grown "best" economists, thus compensating for the losses from the so-called sanctions.
    6. +3
      20 September 2019 01: 39
      The United States has long been hatched plans to oust Russia from the Baltic, not without reason they somehow presented a provocative map of the Russian Federation on which the Kaliningrad region and the Republic of Crimea are absent.
    7. +3
      20 September 2019 01: 54
      It somehow becomes uncomfortable in the Kaliningrad region. Done on all sides. And ours are slowly pulling more and more diverse weapons here. As in the Crimea. The fact that the Pentagon is a reciprocal target indicated little calms. It remains to be hoped that the A2 / AD zone will work in reality.
    8. +4
      20 September 2019 02: 12
      Merikatos and Co. have a lot of Wishlist. angry As there were gangsters from the road 250 years ago, they remain so.
    9. +9
      20 September 2019 02: 21
      Rossii nujno sbit xot odin Izrailskiy F35 so cvoim "S300 ili S400". Posle etogo ves Blijniy Vostok budet pokupat Rossiyskoe voorujenie. A u Ameriki bez Blijnego Vostoka ne budet dostatochnogo kapitala. I Arabskie sheyxi perestanut kormit Amerikanskix pedikov.
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    10. +1
      20 September 2019 02: 22
      Maybe multimedia? laughing
    11. +4
      20 September 2019 02: 31
      The West will not come to terms with the loss of this territory. So they are trying to exert psychological pressure. There is no direct communication between the enclave and the rest of the territory, and this is the weakest link. So the pressure will increase, and missiles alone cannot solve the problem. We need to give Amers a clear rebuke from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other departments - this is for starters. Then develop a good asymmetric answer - the only way to cool their ardor.
      1. +1
        20 September 2019 08: 17
        Quote: Vadim T.
        The West will not at all accept the loss of this territory. So they are trying to exert psychological pressure.

        Here, here in that and "the dog is buried". It needs some kind of clever approach for "multimedia". After all, the post-war borders are, oh, how hard it is to redraw back, here it will smell like a world war. All of Europe, somewhere, got and lost. So this is a touchstone, well, like the Japs with the islands "start durku", and according to the same scheme "fin whales" work. Direction and score are written here and there with one hand.
    12. +2
      20 September 2019 03: 41
      Against the backdrop of news from Saudi Arabia, NATO would have to take care of their air defense. crying
      1. +1
        20 September 2019 08: 08
        Quote: maidan.izrailovich
        NATO should be preoccupied with its air defense.

        Well, they do care, in Romania and Poland there are already air defense (dual-use). They will start playing in other limitrophes soon. Everything "quietly", first there, and then in Ukraine will be delivered.
    13. +1
      20 September 2019 05: 14
      ))) and then you can’t sit behind the Ocean (puddle))) The petrel will reach them!
    14. 0
      20 September 2019 06: 10
      "If they need to ..." Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigan said. And that it is not an overt and cynical threat. General, have you ever thought about Russia's response. What have you been teaching at West Point lately?
    15. +2
      20 September 2019 06: 39
      Can anyone explain what a multidomain is? I understand that this means cartoon house look ... Maybe someone will translate this "cool English word" into classical Russian without any words from the slang of programmers?
      1. +1
        20 September 2019 08: 01
        Quote: Vitaly Tsymbal
        Can anyone explain what a multidomain is?

        This is for stupid Europeans launching "cartoons", sleep well (this is all in the center of Europe, everyone will not seem a little) and in the meantime we are preparing for aggression.
        1. 0
          20 September 2019 08: 49
          Yes, I somehow do not complain about sleep))) I just want to understand how VO readers understand the word "multidomain"? The word "hybrid" has already entered into our everyday life, now it is "multidomain", what will appear tomorrow (?) - maybe some designation of military actions such as "MultiHybridDomain"))) translated the word "creative" into Russian for young people) of the American generals?
    16. +1
      20 September 2019 07: 18
      Do you want to lose Suwalki, with part of Lithuania? You are our multidomain
    17. +1
      20 September 2019 07: 42
      The strategy, presented in 2016, involves the accurate and coordinated work of all military branches.

      This will never happen, for the army (of any country) is a mess and confusion.
      Not to mention the fact that the General Staff of any state is obliged to have all sorts of different plans, both attack and defense. Amers, they say, even have a Zombie Apocalypse Plan.
    18. +1
      20 September 2019 07: 57
      If we need to destroy, for example, the Kaliningrad Integrated Air Defense System, let no one have any doubt that we have a plan for this.
      Well, here they are directly and insolently declaring the impending aggression. The Kaliningrad region is like a "bone in the throat" to them, and they want to tear it away from Russia like the Crimea.
    19. 0
      20 September 2019 08: 24
      Going to attack Kaliningrad. And the whole US territory will be sacrificed? - And what do they need ?.
      1. +1
        20 September 2019 09: 00
        Quote: PValery53
        But do they need THIS?

        That's why the "fools" called multimedia are launched. And suddenly it will slip through.
    20. +1
      20 September 2019 09: 01
      The states really need to drag old Europe into a war with us, as it is getting out of control. The European Union rests on its hands and feet, as they say, it fought, it was enough for it. Now only "proud and independent" republics want to fight, out of their foolishness not realizing that they are prepared for the role of a sacrificial calf. For example, they will arrange a provocation in the form of shelling from our side and a response rushed under US pressure. Well, then ...
    21. 0
      20 September 2019 09: 40
      Well, when do mattresses with NATO rest in peace ???
    22. 0
      20 September 2019 10: 21
      And what will the liberal conclave say to this? What about the world community? If our general allows himself to speak out in such a spirit, everyone will cry out right away - well, what did you want from the Russians, and then there is a mustache in openwork?
    23. 0
      20 September 2019 10: 26
      The integrated air defense system of the Kaliningrad region is under the scrutiny of the US European Command,

      Pay attention to the gentlemen in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and even Mexico ..
      That's what you need to worry about and vote .. Again, you want to arrange a mess in Europe with the participation, as usual of Russia? This time you won’t succeed, otherwise you’re used to skimming cream in European massacres ..
      See how China doesn’t stab you in the liver unexpectedly (you owe it a lot along with Koreans and Japanese) .. hehe
    24. +2
      20 September 2019 10: 31
      The principle is correct. Kaliningrad will be almost in the rear of NATO. In the event of a possible conflict, all necessary NATO airfields and communications will be shot from there, and this will delay or make it impossible for big actions ... BUT will there be enough forces to act simultaneously against Kaliningrad and against troops in the European part of the Russian Federation?
    25. +1
      20 September 2019 11: 17
      Relax. American weapons comply with all international standards, it does not kill painfully.
    26. 0
      20 September 2019 14: 02
      Attack on Kaliningrad will be multi-domain
      The answer is likely to be the same. For example: at the centers carrying out the movement of green paper around the world. Of course, they will find how to defend themselves against such a ramp — they will default, but there will simply be nothing to conduct full-scale hostilities.
    27. 0
      23 September 2019 21: 43
      why Kaliningrad. because brit and usa were behind Hitler. and they want to return the lost territory. return my personal opinion to the Germans. it will be the biggest blow.
      make Germany an independent European leader. it is of course unlikely, but suddenly they will rebel and win. ultimately, it will be difficult for people to edge the land for a new war.

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