Futuros divergentes. ¿Contrainsurgencia o combate de alta intensidad?

The growing budgetary restrictions, the rate of recurrence of operations of counter insurgency / stabilization and the apparently remote possibility of a major inter-state war between advanced competitors forced the Armies to carefully choose their assets. For instance, the required capabilities to execute a counter-insurgency / stabilization operation are different (and cheaper) than those required for high intensity combat. This fact, together with the higher ratio of recurrence of those operations, make some States to decidedly limit their military capabilities to those needed for that type of operations. However, the abandonment of the high intensity combat assets (battle tanks, artillery, attack helicopters ...) implies the renunciation to a large extend to the main feature at the base of the Western military superiority: the excellence in interarms combat. The achievement of this capability took the Western Armies many years and millions of combat casualties ... Providing that this retrieval would happen before defeat.