Posted on 02/24/2007 7:24:58 PM PST by Jeff Head
You may have heard of this gentleman already and may have read his stuff, but just in case, here's a link to an interview with Michael Pillsbury, a Pentagon advisor on China.:
http://www.taiwandc.org/wsj-2005-06.htm
Good to hear that. About time they did.
I had not heard of him...but would like to converse with him as I believe he and I are on the same wave length.
Right on. Those who don't learn from history will experience it once again. We're seeing japan 1941 all over again and once again the pols in DC are asleep at the switch. They should be FORCED to watch the movie PEARL HARBOR on a continuous loop rerun for a non-stop WEEK.
The islamofascists are only the "hitler/nazi" half of this modern axis of evil, the chi-coms are the other "tojo" half. Thus it will come about that they will build up their navy to such an extent that they will believe they can defeat the US Navy by overwhelming numbers alone.
Matching them with 20 century designs/thinking is a foolish waste of money on our part. No, the only way is a naval Star Wars techno-advance : ways of eliminating ANY surface ship or underwater sub in a flash. So, let them sink vast monies into their "modern" ships, then at the right moment demonstrate that they're junk on the bottom of the blue water ocean the minute after they enter it on a hostile mission. Sayonara tojo...
An off-the-wall idea of a hi-tech answer to making surface ships obsolete. Some years ago a guy(Discovery Channel Special)showed that bubbles coming up from the seafloor(methane outbursts)can indeed sink ships via loss of buoyancy. This was in a test tank, not out in the open ocean with a real ship.
But think : if you hit the WATER in front of a moving ship with a massive amount of BUBBLES, it would sink like a stone. You don't shoot at the ship at all...and once it's gone to Davy Jones Locker there's no trace left that anything happened...just a displaced ship, on the bottom.
Ok geniuses : satellite based microwaves, a field of CO2 canisters, anti-ship missiles that blow big HOLES in the water...how would you do it? Anyway, just an off-the-wall idea...
Great research on a very troubling build-up, Jeff. Thanks for the ping.
You are weclome my FRiend. It is a troubling issue...and it has been getting more so over the last three yers, partcularly as we have decommissioned so many good ships...and then sunk them.
Consider the Shanghai "Cooperation Organization" as a world war axis. Consider the SCO's overall pool of forces, logistics and capabilities.
We are like the UK, 1920something, and do not realize it. We stupidly believe in the 10 Year Rule (or even, the 20 Year Rule). Like the UK before us, our August 1940 moment awaits.
They have taken all the TQM, Deming, Kaizen, Demand Flow Manufacturing, FMEA, Design for Assembly and Automation, and various other advanced manufacturing and quality practices to heart. Even if they don't quite have the R&D nailed yet, their ability to execute makes them into what existed in Europe prior to the mid 30's when the Germans outsourced their arms build up to circumvent the Treaty of Versailles. In this case, the IP is Russian. Yet quite unlike the Dutch and Czechs of those old days, the Chinese are probably not so much the naive and gullible future victims but instead are part of the cabal of evil, sharpening their daggers to stick into the backs of the West, Japan and our other Asian allies. Even "Neutral" India needs to realize they are useful idiots and completely expendable after the balloon goes up.
We have a condition where a nation of 1.3 billion is on the verge of attaining and economic strength similar to that of Nazi Germany...and it took most of the rest of the civilized world at that time to put them down, and they were a relatively small nation that numbered in the scores of millions. If China, under its current governmental form, is allowed, and financed by us to reach a similar economic conditions...we are in for a very hard time.
And that is why I say that the threat is much greater than that of the 1930s and what then led to World War II.
If some of you had not seen it, here is a more general review of the PLAN's growth and shipbuilding in the last year. The overall site has much more, including a PLAN vs USN comparison by ship class.
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