There is a difference between liberals and professional military leaders.That sounds great and all - talking can prevent <fill in the blank>.
But think about it, what has talking with the liberals achieved for you?
There is a difference between liberals and professional military leaders.That sounds great and all - talking can prevent <fill in the blank>.
But think about it, what has talking with the liberals achieved for you?
Russia broke communications with Washington over Ukraine and look, no nukes.There is a difference between liberals and professional military leaders.
Everyone knows it was for appearance only. However, the official announcement of suspension of dialogue is a big step toward war.Depends on whether you actually believe that any of these "talks" whether about nukes or climate change with China were actually doing any good.
Milley and his BFF Chicom general are likely still in touch in case anything gets decided here that Milley doesn't agree with.
The aggressive behaviour of China, the PLA and the Eastern Theatre Command, as shown in this graphic, will provide valuable insights into Chinese military thinking and capacity in the days ahead. 1/14
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2/ First, the coming days will permit us to observe how China and the PLA might think about conducting a naval blockade of Taiwan. In essence, they are telegraphing their operational approach so we can war game ways to subvert it in future.
3/ The map, with the live fire areas published by the Eastern Theatre Command, clearly plots out where the Chinese think the key operating areas are for their strategic intimidation of Taiwan and for the conduct of an illegal blockade in the future.
4/ The groupings of naval task forces, and their readiness for sea for this activity, will provide good insights into levels of short term responsiveness, command styles, and contemporary Chinese naval tactics (and how good they are with their own doctrine).
5/ The coming days and weeks will allow observations about the sustainability of large scale PLA naval deployments. Just because you have a lot of ships, it doesn’t always mean you can coordinate them, or sustain all of them at sea over long periods.
6/ Second, the coming days will allow observation of PLA air-sea integration, as well as how they integrate these operations with space-based capability and EW.
7/ Given their almost automatic response to react in this way (which makes the Chinese predictable), how the air and naval capabilities interact will provide insights into exploitable weaknesses.
8/ Third, the coming days and weeks will provide lessons on the effectiveness of PLA joint capability and the capacity of their Eastern Theatre Command. This is a relatively new ‘combatant command’ (formed in 2016), and it is the one responsible for Taiwan.
9/ How well this new command is able to command and control the variety of forces (naval, air, cyber, missile, etc) that will be deployed to intimidate Taiwan over the short to medium term will be an area of great interest to multiple military and think tank observers.
10/ Reports such as annual U.S. DoD report to Congress on China are invaluable sources of information on PLA developments. But nothing provides better insights into the actual capability of a military than seeing them deployed ‘in the field’ (or at sea).
11/ You can read the latest DoD report here: media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/03/20…
12/ The highly predictable surge in Chinese military units, and their likely aggressive posture, is full of potential for incidents with U.S. and Taiwanese forces. Recent behaviour of PLA towards Australian and US aircraft and vessels provides a baseline for their approach.
13/ Beyond the strategic messaging about ‘don’t mess with the PLA’, the PLA will almost certainly use this as an opportunity iron out issues with its joint command and control. They are decades behind the west in these kinds of operations.
14/ But, we have been given a priceless opportunity to learn about the Chinese joint military capability in real time, and to assess its strengths and weaknesses. The Taiwanese, Americans, Japanese, Australians and others will be watching closely. End
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Brian Hart @BrianTHart NEW: @ChinaPowerCSIS has launched a page to track China's activities amid the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis as they develop. We start with analysis of the PLA's unprecedented exercises. Learn about the significance of the exercises and each individual zone. https://chinapower.csis.org/tracking-the-f |
For the past two days, there seemed to be no other news in the world than the visit of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to Taiwan. Nancy Pelosi’s plane overshadowed both the fighting in Ukraine and the global financial and energy crisis. As a result, a representative of the American establishment did visit the island, and China confined itself to a series of extremely harsh political statements. This fact triggered an avalanche of alarmist statements from all kinds of experts trumpeting China’s strategic defeat. The emphasis was made exclusively on the military aspect, while completely overlooking the fact that we are talking about an Asian country, that is, a state with a different mentality, power system, political scenarios and approaches from the European one.
While everyone was watching the maneuvers and exercises of the PLA Navy, Beijing delivered an imperceptible, but perfectly calibrated and crushing blow. Since August 3, it has been strictly forbidden to send sand to Taiwan. For Taiwan, this is far worse than a direct military invasion and an amphibious landing.
The disruption of imported supply chains of construction sand and quartz sand could potentially send not only the Taiwanese economy, but the entire global electronics industry, from game consoles to the “brains” of modern missiles and fighter jets, into a deep knockout.
Anyone who has read Unrestricted Warfare will not be surprised to see China eschew a direct and obvious response that would accomplish nothing but military escalation in favor of a more subtle asymmetric response that will cause severe strategic harm to its adversaries."Watching the maneuvers of air units and warship formations off the coast of Taiwan is extremely fascinating. Anyone who has read the works of Sun Tzu understands that this is only a beautiful backdrop and that if you sit on your sandy shore long enough, one day an entire island will come to you.
At this time, the West should be sending arms into Taiwan, it appears it is not. This tells me a lot of talk, but no action. China can take that as a go signal for invasion.It is starting to seem that Pelosi gave the Chicoms the excuse, however lame, to execute a plan.
They have been holding back and watching the Russia vs. Nato/US proxy war, and I expected they would engage at some point in some way.
Hopefully this is a only a demonstration and not the actual beginning of the true and kinetic hostilities that seem to be baked into the future.
If this leads to the real China vs Nato/US, I don't like our odds with the current crop of corrupticrats that are currently in charge, some of whom are obviously compromised to some degree by the very enemy they are supposed to defend us from.
If this leads to the real China vs Nato/US, I don't like our odds with the current crop of corrupticrats that are currently in charge, some of whom are obviously compromised to some degree by the very enemy they are supposed to defend us from.
Collin Koh @CollinSLKoh This could potentially be construed as part of a systematic "decapitation" campaign, which would precede a main attack, targeting key Taiwanese government appointment holders. The risk of miscalculation, misjudgment, and escalation is very high now. |
THATS NOT gonna happen....Listening right now to Mike Gallegher and he gave the best reason yet--
This is a last-ditch, "Hail Mary" ploy to try to RAISE RESPECT enough for the Demoncrat party to get those ESSENTIAL few points up in the polls / voting so that Demos "might" have a prayer of holding on to the Senate in November
Makes sense to me
I'm of the opinion that this whole sudden trip of piglousi's was meant to draw attention there rather than something here that was going on. What? I don't know.
I almost gagged when she appeared in that titty pink pantsuit. That color is for little girls sunsuits, not for women older than rocks. Something else is\was going on they didn't want seen.
It is starting to seem that Pelosi gave the Chicoms the excuse, however lame, to execute a plan.
They have been holding back and watching the Russia vs. Nato/US proxy war, and I expected they would engage at some point in some way.
Hopefully this is a only a demonstration and not the actual beginning of the true and kinetic hostilities that seem to be baked into the future.
If this leads to the real China vs Nato/US, I don't like our odds with the current crop of corrupticrats that are currently in charge, some of whom are obviously compromised to some degree by the very enemy they are supposed to defend us from.
RUMINT has it Nancy had an escort of EIGHT late model F-15s ...
that would be a good enough reason for China to do what they are going to doRUMINT has it Nancy had an escort of EIGHT late model F-15s ...
The audio does not match the quote.Growing up I used to get Panda Express at the mall so I’ve always felt a special connection with China
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No, but it rhymes with the same energy level...The audio does not match the quote.