A member of Battery C, 1-174 Air Defense Artillery Regiment with a Stinger missile during Combined Resolve XI at Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, December 7, 2018. US Army/Charles Rosemond
Business Insider: The US Army is practicing to take down enemy aircraft in the skies over Europe
* The US military has renewed its focus on great-power competition.
* As part of that, it's preparing to take on a near-peer or peer adversary.
* That includes training for situations in which US forces won't control the air.
The US military is shifting its focus toward preparing for great-power conflict, and on the ground in Europe, where heightened tensions with Russia have a number of countries worried about renewed conflict.
That includes new attention to short-range air-defense — a capability needed against an adversary that could deploy ground-attack aircraft, especially helicopters, and contest control of the air during a conflict.
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WNU Editor: China and Russia are the only two countries that can seriously contest U.S. control of the air.