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Could the U.S. Lose a War with China Over Taiwan?
The era of U.S. military primacy is over.

nationalinterest.org/feature/could-us-lose-war-china-over-taiwan-195686

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, who served under three Secretaries before retiring in 2017, has been even more explicit. As he has stated publicly, in the most realistic war games the Pentagon has been able to design simulating war over Taiwan, the score is eighteen to zero. And the eighteen is not Team USA.

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Senior US general warns China's military progress is 'stunning' as US is hampered by 'brutal' bureaucracy

edition.cnn.com/2021/10/28/politics/hyten-stunning-china-military-progress/index.html

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Sandia’s Atomic ‘Avocado’ Could Allow GPS-Free PNT
The first-of-its-kind device, a vacuum chamber for containing clouds of atomic particles that drive quantum sensors, is about the size of an avocado.
By Theresa Hitchens on November 01, 2021

Sandia National Laboratories has developed the core technology needed to create small enough quantum sensors to potentially free the US military (and civilians around the world) from reliance on GPS satellites for way-finding, according to lab officials.

breakingdefense.com/2021/11/sandias-atomic-avocado-could-allow-gps-free-pnt/

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www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2021/11/03/navy-faces-prospect-that-sub-crash-will-force-uss-connecticut-out-of-service/?sh=27cc60264f3c

[glennkoks]

Oct 30, 2021 14:55:43 GMT code said:

Could the U.S. Lose a War with China Over Taiwan?
The era of U.S. military primacy is over.

nationalinterest.org/feature/could-us-lose-war-china-over-taiwan-195686

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, who served under three Secretaries before retiring in 2017, has been even more explicit. As he has stated publicly, in the most realistic war games the Pentagon has been able to design simulating war over Taiwan, the score is eighteen to zero. And the eighteen is not Team USA.

Mr. Work is President and CEO of his own Company that provides insight, counsel and advice on defense and national security issues.  In short, fear sells and he has a vested economic interest in selling fear.  Both China and the USA have nuclear capabilities and I personally don't see either side winning in any of those 18 simulations...

[flearider]

Nov 4, 2021 19:12:34 GMT glennkoks said:

Oct 30, 2021 14:55:43 GMT code said:

Could the U.S. Lose a War with China Over Taiwan?
The era of U.S. military primacy is over.

nationalinterest.org/feature/could-us-lose-war-china-over-taiwan-195686

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, who served under three Secretaries before retiring in 2017, has been even more explicit. As he has stated publicly, in the most realistic war games the Pentagon has been able to design simulating war over Taiwan, the score is eighteen to zero. And the eighteen is not Team USA.

Mr. Work is President and CEO of his own Company that provides insight, counsel and advice on defense and national security issues.  In short, fear sells and he has a vested economic interest in selling fear.  Both China and the USA have nuclear capabilities and I personally don't see either side winning in any of those 18 simulations...

only the fool would press the button .... but we have many fools out there and one with dementia .... god help us all 

 

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USS Connecticut CO, XO, COB Relieved Over Collision in South China Sea ‘Due to Loss of Confidence’

news.usni.org/2021/11/04/uss-connecticut-co-xo-cob-relieved-over-collision-in-south-china-sea-due-to-lose-of-confidence

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Federation of American Scientists

A Closer Look at China’s Missile Silo Construction

By Matt Korda and Hans Kristensen • November 2, 2021


fas.org/blogs/security/2021/11/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-silo-construction/

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Back to the Future: A Misguided Understanding of China’s Nuclear Intent
by David J. Trachtenberg

www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2021/11/05/back_to_the_future_a_misguided_understanding_of_chinas_nuclear_intent_802266.html

The discovery of hundreds of new Chinese missile silos that could house multiple warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles has left Western analysts scrambling to explain China’s surprising action....

It is true that China is not Russia or the Soviet Union. The truth about China may be much more worrisome. Yet, applying the same Cold War arms control logic to China today that proved erroneous then would be counterproductive and dangerous. Make no mistake: China sees the United States as a declining power and itself on the ascendancy.

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We paid for China's war machine with our Walmart money. That was a mistake.

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The U.S. Navy’s Range Has Diminished Dangerously
Carrier air wings aren’t prepared to overcome weapons that push U.S. ships away from shore.
By Jerry Hendrix
Nov. 18, 2021 12:03 pm ET

www.wsj.com/articles/the-navy-range-has-diminished-dangerously-missile-aircraft-carrier-killer-china-ngad-air-dominance-11637248615?mod=hp_opin_pos_3

Yet what the carrier air wing urgently needs to compete with China is the ability to project power ashore from a great distance. In 1996 the range of the carrier’s air wing was about 800 nautical miles. By 2006 that figure had dropped to 500 miles. Meanwhile, China has developed antiship missiles like the Dong Feng-21, the “carrier killer,” with a range of 1,000 miles.

[Sigurdur]

Nov 18, 2021 19:17:36 GMT code said:

The U.S. Navy’s Range Has Diminished Dangerously
Carrier air wings aren’t prepared to overcome weapons that push U.S. ships away from shore.
By Jerry Hendrix
Nov. 18, 2021 12:03 pm ET

www.wsj.com/articles/the-navy-range-has-diminished-dangerously-missile-aircraft-carrier-killer-china-ngad-air-dominance-11637248615?mod=hp_opin_pos_3

Yet what the carrier air wing urgently needs to compete with China is the ability to project power ashore from a great distance. In 1996 the range of the carrier’s air wing was about 800 nautical miles. By 2006 that figure had dropped to 500 miles. Meanwhile, China has developed antiship missiles like the Dong Feng-21, the “carrier killer,” with a range of 1,000 miles.

I wouldn't worry too much about the Dong missile. There is anti missile tech to overcome that. The threat is 5 or more missiles coming at once. I don't mean 2 minutes apart, I mean within seconds of each other.

[Sigurdur]

www.wsj.com/articles/the-navy-range-has-diminished-dangerously-missile-aircraft-carrier-killer-china-ngad-air-dominance-11637248615?st=vrm79rqa6gouks1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink