Posted on 08/20/2020 8:07:32 AM PDT by Retain Mike
Japan is looking at offensive counter-strike as one way of deterring China’s and North Korea’s expanding missile threats, as Tokyo re-examines its future defense needs after backing away from building two Aegis Ashore sites, an author of a recent report on emerging defense technologies said Wednesday.
Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi, a visiting professor at Pusan National University, said that option surfaced when Japan shelved its plans to build the sites to supplement its ship-borne ballistic and land-based Patriot missile defense systems.
“What do we need to defend ourselves better” is the question the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is asking itself. He added that Japan’s Ministry of Defense is also questioning whether it should proceed with buying the American Global Hawk, a high-altitude, remotely piloted surveillance aircraft.
“Japan is going to have to re-think asymmetric” warfare, its technology and concepts of operations, Hinata-Yamaguchi added, because “China has mass.” For Tokyo, that translates into greater investment in its maritime and Japanese Air Self-Defense Forces at the expense of the land forces and legacy systems. It also means realizing that the United States and Japan cannot maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific on their own, he said.
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Simple, get nuclear weapons.
They probably already have. They are just not talking.
If there is one country that will clean the Chicoms clock, it is Japan.
Japan is the 3rd largest economy in the world. Plus, their workforce is highly trained in technology.
If Japan decided their safety required a fleet of submarines with nuclear missiles, I’m sure they could create it in record time.
Japan may not have the military potential to be a superpower, like the USA or China, but they have the military potential to make anyone who messes with them wish they hadn’t.
N. Korea, China, & Russia (who are all on Japan’s doorstep) will all rue the day they backed Japan into a corner and forced the country to seriously take up arms again.
I may be too optimistic here, but I think we may see a new alliance formed in a second Trump term. Vietnam, India, Cambodia, Laos, Japan, Taiwan, S, Korea, Australia, and Singapore are all looking warily at an increasingly militant and aggressive China (and their proxy N. Korea).
Most of them have made moves to become closer to the US recently and Pompeo has talked before about an alliance of nations to contain China. Pompeo is clearly focused on China.
Trump is increasingly frustrated with NATO (in large part due to Germany) and he correctly sees that the major threat to the world is China (who is still many years away from being able to project power by the way).
They are working on new and improved trade agreements with many of those nations as we speak. Those nations are also withdrawing from China.
Who knows? The Trump administration thinks outside the box. New trade agreements and an alliance of nations against China is not out of the question in a second Trump term. China is certainly pushing things in that direction with their behavior this year.
Japan is also pushing forward in this direction and Japan is no joke - they remain a huge economic superpower and they are increasing their military spending and research annually.
Concur as stated below in post 6
Why not a SWATO (South Pacific and Asian Treaty Organization)? That would get old Xie’s shorts in a bind pretty quickly.
I was stationed in Japan for two years in the Navy and have seen some of their naval forces up close. Believe me, the Japanese Maritime “Self-Defense” Force could easily take on a lot of the world’s navies.
Japan’s debut as a major power came about when they soundly defeated the Russian Navy in the Sea of Japan in 1905.
“The Battle of Tsushima (Russian: Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of the Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日本海海戦, Nihonkai-Kaisen) in Japan, was a major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. It was naval history's first decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets, and the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role. It has been characterized as the "dying echo of the old era – for the last time in the history of naval warfare, ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas".
It was fought on 27–28 May 1905 (14–15 May in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia) in the Tsushima Strait located between Korea and southern Japan. In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km) to reach the Far East. In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, "The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar"; decades later, historian Edmund Morris agreed with this judgment. The destruction of the fleet caused a bitter reaction from the Russian public, which induced a peace treaty in September 1905 without any further battles.”
AEGIS with the SM-6 missile has the ability to intercept ballistic missiles. Increasing their defensive and offensive capabilities as well as a committed alliance whereas an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all should make a rational China think twice about aggression. This of course presumes a rational China...
I was Army and concur with your assessment. Japan is no joke militarily and their economic and manufacturing base is powerful.
Trump’s instincts on how to contain China are pretty good and he has a kindred spirit in the prime minister of Japan.
Time for P.acific O.cean T.reaty A.gainst. T.yrannical O.riental E.nemies.
China is becoming increasingly unstable politically under Xi who is now kicking critics out of the Party.
Talk about cultures that have hated each other for centuries.
And the Chinese really haven’t won once. (The Japs held a LOT of Chinese territory in 1945.)
Isn’t that SEATO?
Great dance moves! Not so much against any real opponent; especially if the opponent is MMA. Untested techniques, aka no sparing, leaves traditional fighters like your gal wide open for humiliating defeats - seen time and time again. So Traditional styles and techniques become just so many dance moves - nice to watch, but so is a good ballet.
Qi La La and Xu Xiaodong are some of the best fighters using tested techniques. I don’t know of any Asian women in that category - there must be some but not her.
It essentially SEATO, but more like NATO (annual joint training and much more teeth).
The big problem for the CCP is that they cannot control information from the outside (real news) and resentment from the inside (the CCP is becoming increasingly corrupt).
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