Approximately half of active US military believe that the United States will soon be drawn into a major war.. This, as reported by Voice of America, is testified by the results of a survey conducted by the Military Times.. This is a shocking increase in the concerns of servicemen about global instability in general, and Russia and China in particular.. About 46 percent of military personnel who took part in an anonymous survey of readers of the Military Times, believe that the United States will be drawn into a new war within a year.. This is many times more than about 5 percent, who held the same opinion, according to a survey conducted in September 2017. At the same time, 50 percent of respondents believe that the country will not take part in a major conflict in the coming year.. But this figure is declining: last year more than two thirds of the respondents considered war unlikely. Responding to questions about specific countries that concern them, the military primarily called Russia and China. The survey showed a significant increase in the share of the military, who consider these countries a significant or major threat. About 71 percent believe that Russia represents a significant threat, which is 18 percentage points more than in last year’s survey. Similarly, 69 percent of respondents believe that China poses a significant threat, which is 24 percentage points more than last year..

The same survey showed that more than three-quarters of military personnel, 77 percent, believe that the armed forces have become much more politically polarized in recent years.. Nearly 52 percent of those polled said that the combat readiness of the armed forces had weakened since they entered the service, and 12 percent said that it had declined significantly. Less than a third believe that combat readiness has increased compared with the time they entered service.