Yes - a destroyer comparable in size to an Essex and capable of carrying the F-35s that Japan is planning to buy. Their air and ground forces aren't anything to scoff at either.Japans problem isn’t weapons, its pacifism right down in their DNA. After a 2 nuke attitude adjustment, they got REAL peaceful.
Germans are very very non-warlike now too. You know, currently there’s a culture thats a fine candididate for that treatment too. That really is all it would take is a string of Nukes over mecca, and medina, islamabad, tehran, and yemen.
It would be the best thing for world peace to ever happen.
I lived in Japan, for 8 years, that was some time ago....but, I have a feel of Japanese abilities, and so, if the Chinese lock horns with Japan, it will be one hell-of-fight....Japan, IMHO, has all the components of N weapons, all that is required is to assemble, and deliver
The international community isn’t stopping Japan from rearming. In fact I think certain of their allies ahhrmmm... (us) would love them to take a more assertive military role. They are one of the worlds most respectable nations with one of the worlds largest economies.
It is not countries that run amok and rape their neighbors. It is cabals that manage to seize countries. Admiral Raymond Spruance is credited with saying something like “there are enough brutes in any country, and enough of the brute in each of us” for what happened to happen anywhere.
“Japan put up a fine fight during this war, he began. . . The brutal treatment accorded our prisoners of war by the Japanese military caused many of our people to hate the Japanese. From my observations in Japan last year I never had the feeling that the mass of the Japanese people were in any way cruel or brutal. Their treatment of animals and children was quite the contrary. My only explanation was that cruelty and brutality were deliberately fostered in the Army and to some extent the Navy as a matter of high policy with the idea of producing tougher fighting men.
“There are always enough brutes in any population and enough of the brute in each individual to make this easy. The difficult thing in war is for the high command to restrain the brutal instincts which fighting tends to arouse in many individuals, while at the same time conducting relentlessly the operations which the war requires. For my own part I never found that I had to develop in myself a hatred of the Japanese as a race, in order to make what I hoped would be a good war against them.” (Bue, Thomas B., The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, 1974)
Umm...they're already re-armed. They have the second-best Navy in the world, one that is clearly superior to the Chinese Navy.
Just because they call it a Self-Defense Force instead of a Navy means nothing.
Yes - a destroyer comparable in size to an Essex and capable of carrying the F-35s that Japan is planning to buy. Their air and ground forces aren't anything to scoff at either.