U.S. struggles on China-war planning - top officer(finding a right mix)

Reuters ^ | 06/29/05

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Stellar Dendrite]

Wow what a great message to broadcast to our enemy...

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

This sort of stuff used to be discussed only in "closed sessions"......the content and the political slant in the way this piece is written is exactly why.

[mmercier]

Whatup with all these China/War stories...?

Nothing unusual is up with China, something else is going down.

Wonder what.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Wow what a great message to broadcast to our enemy... "

And notice he had to struggle. All our troops struggle in Iraq and Afghanistan also. Our whole military constantly struggle. Our Marine, Airborne, Special Forces, SOPs, SOCs, all wake up each day and what do they do?

They struggle.

[Last Dakotan]

How is he going to make airplanes without a domestic manufacturing base? Rubber bands and balsa wood?

[Mr.Clark]

DOD is working on the new quadrennial defense review, so the Air Force/Navy have to justify their massive budget outlays. Think about it, what else does the Navy have if China isn't around? The Navy needs China, so that's why you are seeing all these scare stories.

Not saying we shouldn't worry about China, but some of the hysterical coverage over the last few days is ridiculous.

[axes_of_weezles]

Who said they were going to be planes?

The bombers are just standoff cruise missile and guided bomb platforms.

[ProudVet77]

Remember when Rumsfeld announced the Pentagon would have a department of disinformation? And then he said they disbanded it?
;)

[mmercier]

Good answer.

Damn good answer.

[rbmillerjr]

"DOD is working on the new quadrennial defense review, so the Air Force/Navy have to justify their massive budget outlays. Think about it, what else does the Navy have if China isn't around? The Navy needs China, so that's why you are seeing all these scare stories. "

Sounds a little conspiratorial to me. We are being vigilant enought to reposition B2 Stealth Bombers and other naval and air power to the Pacific during a war in Southwest Asia...so maybe it's not such a conspiracy.

Vigilance is peace throught strength.

[joesnuffy]

You must first have the will to defeat the enemy from
within....

[Prince Caspian]

Vigilance is peace throught strength.

In other words... the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

[struwwelpeter]

The first US 'Plan Orange' for war against Japan was written in 1919.

[Prince Caspian]

Our whole military constantly struggles. Our Marine, Airborne, Special Forces, SOPs, SOCs, all wake up each day and what do they do? They struggle.

ROFL! Good call!

[mmercier]

>> Remember when Rumsfeld announced the Pentagon would have a department of disinformation? And then he said they disbanded it?

How cool are these people...? Way cool.

One can only hope that there is a hand in this puppet.

Being a fan of myth makers, today I stand amazed at their sheer brilliance. And I also know for a near fact that they have never existed. They simply hire shitty writers.

The brilliance of the disinformation notion is that it manifests in individual minds with only a mere mention. Pattern recognition kicks in and soon you have black cobra gunships watching your poodle take a leak in the back yard.

I miss the days when I could believe.

[struwwelpeter]

Oops, my bad. Make that 1897.

[Mr.Clark]

Not suggesting its a conspiracy, just service loyalty. If you're a Navy admiral, you want your service to grow and gain better funding. After all, as the admirals would remind you, what is good for the Navy is good for America. Getting this kind of support is growing increasingly difficult considering A) GWOT is mostly an Army/Marine show and B) Iraq is sucking up defense money like a Hoover. So how do you overcome these problems? Simply leak your "concerns" over the growing Chinese naval threat. People like Bill Gertz dutifully listen and push out hilariously alarmist stories, and there's a call for increased funding for the Navy.

That's not always a bad thing, I wouldn't mind seeing more money go the Navy. It's the way the world works, happened all the time in the Cold War. Whenever one of the services was facing cuts, they would instantly cling to some new "developing" Soviet capability that only they could counter. Those B-2's are much more likely to bomb targets in North Korea than in China.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Remember when Rumsfeld announced the Pentagon would have a department of disinformation? And then he said they disbanded it? ;) "

I may have, not sure, I seem to be in information overload of lately. Couldn't even remember about the PHLANX gun.
But I think I get your point. heh heh.

Public consumption can be a real free for all.