[robowombat]

Clinton?Gore effectively sold the most sensitive data on the Polaris system and space launched nuclear weapons to the PRC in return for both personal gain and payola for the Dem party. The Mahdi continues this treacherous tradition by making a high visibility example of any professional officer who dares speak the truth about Chinese capabilities and ambitions.The PRC has corrupted both the political class (not hard), academia (already being done years ago by agents of influence such as John Fairbank) and finally the military. A past Navy CINCPAC CO is virtually a one man propaganda agency for the disinformation and denial propaganda Peking churns out.

[TBP]

Fired for committing truth?

[2banana]

Direct answer to a direct question

[Michael.SF.]

has been reassigned following an investigation into mishandling of classified information.

If anyone else has ever done this, please raise your right hand.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Has there ever been the firing/removal of this many officers in the military and intel agencies during a President’s administration in American history?

[mfish13]

I do not believe the story. I’ll bet he got sideways with Obama. Obama has been getting rid of all the good brass.

[gaijin]

Just 12 minutes flying time away from the Senkaku Islands the Chinese built an until recently secret Shuimen Airbase, in Fujian Province, across the staits from Taiwan.

They have J-10's, Su-27's...looks like they have a Hip or two about halfway down the strip, as you'll see:

https://www.google.com/maps/@26.9425226,120.0790185,898m/data=!3m1!1e3

Check out the camo immediately north of the field --it's on the apron, road, and some hangars. This place was obviously positioned to accomodate a big surge in aircraft.

The Chinese also recently installed 32 batteries of their version of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile --looks like they're pretty serious about defending this asset in some conflict scenario.

It would be almost impossible for the Chinese to seize one or all Senkaku Islands without taking one or all of the Miyako Islands, the totally uncontested territory of Japan and home to 50,000 Japanese people.

The stinger:

Some analysts doubt they'd do ANY of this w/o also taking OKINAWA.

[drypowder]

if obozo needs an excuse to fire a US military officer, any will do. The obozo’s obvious goal through demonstration is to eventually disrupt the US military by firing and or neutering the current command structure and then replace them with his crony mini mees.

[firebasecody]

Anyone who has ever discovered a classified spill, or inappropriate use of classified computing, raise your hand! I guess the hooker quit so they had to use the classified handling ruse.

[UCANSEE2]

We’ve got about as many fired Military Leaders as we have dead bankers.

[Timber Rattler]

Lots of new “aides” or “special assistants” floating around military headquarters these days.