Quote: Using baby steps China is developing capabilities in every military area.
I'm always amazed the number of posters on this board that see China never as a threat because we currently hold the cards.
This arrogant thinking is going to be our downfall one day.
This may be a fantasy, but I don't think so. The people that are responsible for taking our miltary through the 21st Century aren't wasting a great deal of time thinking the King of the Hill is so through the will of God alone.
Good military people (GOOD military people) look to where the bad guys are going so as to see what will be necessary to cope. It's just so important for the US to stay the finest military force in the world in both personnel and hardware. It's vital that the Chinese and the terrorist leaders spend their assets trying to figure how to cope with us.
Naturally, it helps if we have leaders that allocate money to make it so also see where the real needs are. Luckily, most complacent Freepers and complacent people in other venues aren't the puppeteers that have to make the hard decisions. All this leaves me with everlasting respect for the anonymous people that labor for love of country studying needs and figuring how to meet them. There has never been that much glory in that kind of work. In fact it's often a pretty thankless task. Yet if we don't have extremely smart people doing it, we are ultimately doomed.