Posted on 05/05/2014 4:26:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ironically, the blizzard of YJ-82X cruise missiles launched from the Chinese subs lying off the coast of Baja California crossed the beach directly over the SEAL training complex on Coronado. America had decided that its special forces were a cheap substitute for the less glamorous hardware and formations that had traditionally been the foundation of American military power. Now, those elite warriors watched helplessly as the missiles roared overhead north toward the two carriers berthed at North Island.
The casualties would have been much higher if the Navy had been able to fully man the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. As it was, when the missiles tore into their hulls and exploded, only several hundred sailors died instead of thousands. Still, in a few moments, two of America’s nine carriers were twisted hulks spewing radioactive smoke. Another dozen Navy ships berthed at local bases were in flames.
Only the people lining the downtown San Diego waterfront saw what was happening, though local TV camera crews were filming the carnage live. Their stations tried to upload the footage to the network satellites but they could not connect. The satellites were gone, knocked out by Russian ASAT missiles.
The rest of America was oblivious to the catastrophe in San Diego, and the similar disaster in Norfolk.
The TV stations next tried the Internet, but it was as if someone had just flicked it off. There was nothing but electronic silence. A coordinated cyber strike had hacked through America’s electronic defenses and shut down the web. Many of the hacks came not from Chinese and Russian teams across the world but from agents within America, infiltrated into key positions in American government and business, who introduced their malware directly into vital systems with thumb drives.
Simultaneously, outside major metropolises, groups of well-trained commandos, driving SUVs, followed the routes between power transmission stations that they had rehearsed using paper street maps (America’s GPS satellites having been eliminated in the opening minutes). With rifles, they opened fire on the critical transformer equipment, which was guarded only by chain link fences and cameras that no one monitored. When the irreplaceable equipment was shorted out and burning, they drove on to the next site and destroyed it. Between the cyber chaos and physical attacks, cities began to black out.
America ground to a halt, blind and paralyzed.
At sea in the Far East, anti-ship ballistic missiles appeared on the screens of the U.S.S. George Washington, the flagship of the only American carrier task force still in the Pacific. The guided missile cruisers cut when military budgets were slashed to fund record entitlement spending might have been able to save it. As it was, the missiles dived in at hypersonic speeds, punching through the flight deck and ripping the mighty ship apart.
American warships, for so long the hunters, became the hunted. Within a few hours, America’s 265-ship Navy had become a 100-ship Navy.
The President was about to speak at a rally to protest the opposition party’s “War on the Poor.” The other side had suggested holding military budget cuts to 15% instead of 18%, and the President was gleefully citing the cruelty of the opposition for funding the military-industrial complex on the backs of those living off of entitlements.
The military’s first instinct was to hustle the President to the 747 flying command post aircraft, which the enemy expected. The enemy could have disrupted that plan if it wished with an attack on the airfield by commandos, but they preferred the President remain in control.
The President’s flying command post took off, guarded by a flight of four F-15C fighters that were pushing 35 years old. It would have been six escorts, but two planes were down awaiting parts.
The President’s senior military advisor was a general, chosen for the job not because of a sterling combat record but for being the Public Affairs section’s telegenic face of “The New Military.” The general would have been hard pressed to explain the President’s options if they had not been so stark.
“Your options? You do have the capacity to launch a nuclear strike,” said the general.
There were still 100 Minuteman III missiles in silos in Montana that had not been eliminated during the last round of arms negotiations. Due to cuts in maintenance, only 62 were functional that day; they were safe from cyber-attack only because their 1970’s era computer systems were literally too primitive to be hacked. And there were three nuclear missile subs on patrol in the oceans; two were known to be combat effective, while the third may have been sunk – it was unclear.
“I won’t use nuclear weapons. Ever,” said the President, confirming the opinion reached by the teams of Chinese and Russian intelligence analysts, psychologists and game theorists who had studied the Commander-in-Chief in preparation for that very moment. Deterrence only deters when the threat is credible.
“What are my other options?” asked the President. The general looked down, shuffling papers.
“We don’t have a conventional option.”
“The Army? The Marines?”
“There are a few units forward deployed, but we’ve brought most of our forces home. What we have left we can’t move fast enough and most of it is designed for counterinsurgency, not conventional warfare – we’ve cut our armored forces because they cost so much to maintain. And to move them we’d need foreign ships, but we can’t count on them. We can’t even count on the sea lanes being clear.”
“The Air Force doesn’t have bombers? Fighters?” the President asked.
“Not enough, and not modern enough to get through Chinese and Russian air defenses.”
The President turned to the Secretary of State. “What about our allies?”
“No commitments yet. In fact, there’s been no response from several key allies.”
“We invoked NATO Article 5, didn’t we? We’ve been attacked!” the President shouted.
“They don’t have any significant forces left. Even if they were inclined to assist…”
“Inclined?” asked the President, stunned.
“We need to understand that they may be making a calculated decision…”
The President did understand. “To go with the winner.”
No one spoke; the only sound was the noise of the 747’s jets until a communications officer spoke up.
“I have a video transmission off a Chinese satellite coming … to us. How did they get our communications data?” It was yet another security breach.
“Just put it onscreen,” ordered the President.
The transmission was a split screen, the Chinese Premier on the left, the Russian President on the right. They were smiling.
“What do you want?” the President asked.
The Russian President spoke. “We want peace. We want justice. And that is why we are here to provide you the terms of your surrender.”
This scenario is fiction, but if we fail to preserve our military it could be all too real. The views of the author are solely his own.
“The enemy could have disrupted that plan if it wished with an attack on the airfield by commandos, but they preferred the President remain in control.”
Yeah, because he’s in on it.
All they have to do is wait for the NAACP, La Raza and the imported Muslim occupation to destroy America from within in the next decade, while divesting themselves of US debt, the Dollar as an exchange currency and expanding their market everywhere but in the US.
We'll eventually beg 'em to come in and take over, ...and they will for the cheap labor to exploit the US natural resources they'll buy for a pittance.
The Chinese know full well to never interfere with an enemy destroying themselves.
Same thought came to my mind when I read the scenario.
5.56mm
Total fabrication
The president would have been doing one of these:
A. Playing Golf
C. hosting a “secret party “ at the white house
Where is B? - I can never prove it- but the
riff raff that comes and goes in
the white house... supplying him with drugs.
...and in Alaska...all bridges, airstrips and ports are mined, arms issued to all civilians and the Alaska National Guard activated.....the message is RESIST IN PLACE.
The thing about one ship that does as much as 6 ships means the enemy can sink 6 ships by sinking 1.
I’ve heard the German tanks in WW2 were as tough as 4 US tanks. The problem for the Germans was we traveled in packs of 5.
Scenes from the movie, The Hunger Games comes to mind... of the Capital city and it's obscene excesses in wealth, fashion, food, life-style, etc.
As a military retiree, I can only shake my head each time Barry and his cabana boy, Chuckie Hagel, take a cleaver to the defense budget (again). Much of the “savings” are illusory, but the impact on readiness and training are very, very real.
Consider the recent effort to limit military pension increases. How much does DoD spend on retirement pensions? About $4 billion a year, and as the number of retirees who began their service in WWII, Korea and Vietnam declines, the required amount of funding will decrease. Meanwhile, food stamp payments have increased more than 30% over the past five years, with no end in sight.
In the very near future, “traditional” military retirement 50% of base pay after 20 years of service) will be replaced by some sort of 401K arrangement, so everyone will get a little something—but the first payout won’t occur until age 62 (or later). Meanwhile, it will become even more difficult to attract new recruits from the dwindling pool of young Americans who actually meet the requirements for military service. Why invest 20 years (or longer) in the armed forces, “retire” in your late 30s or early 40s, but wait another 20 years for the payout?
Or better yet, do what millions of aging baby boomers and large numbers of younger Americans have done: go on disability. From what I hear, approval of a disability claim through the Social Security Administration is virtually automatic, and the number of Americans receiving those checks is at an all-time high. When I lived in Mississippi, I knew a young man who claimed disability due to “anxiety,” and was receiving a monthly check of more than $800. That doesn’t sound like much but when you multiply it by millions, you’ve got a problem.
Here’s my quick fix for entitlements, beginning with the grand-daddy of them all, Social Security. Theh government can tell you, to the penny, how much you’ve contributed, along with your employers and that amazing 1% return on your investment. Under my plan, that amount is what you’d get from the program, and you can take it lump sum or in monthly checks until it runs out. Enforcing that kind of requirement would trigger a flood of savings and investment that (coupled with the right energy policies) trigger a huge economic boom.
As for the other programs, limit disability to only the truly deserving, with high standards of proof. No more checks because your ability to speak English is limited. Slash Medicaid to the bone, and means-test Medicare. And did I mention the complete elimination of Obamacare?
The entitlements monster can be tamed...but no one wants to have a serious discussion because too many Americans are counting on a check.
The red army raped every German woman between 8 and 80 in the areas they controlled. never, ever lose.
We aren’t done yet.
The fools in charge believe consumption drives an economy. So they see entitlements as helping America’s economy.
Tell a farmer during the dust bowl that if he ate all his seed corn the resulting demand would drive his farm through the roof.
The only way anyone should ever get a check from the govt is if they’ve earned it.
Not believeable. Obama seems upset that America is being destroyed. Not realistic AT ALL.
“Not with a bang, but with a whimper.”
Chinese conquest will come, if it comes, via slow assimilation, not warfare.
I can imagine our enemies sitting back, patiently watching our slow demise, but I expect they would be (are?) secretly fortifying our internal antagonists.
How many nukes or chem-bio weapons have aleady been carried across our porous borders? We know the Border Patrol has caught many OTMs (Other Than Mexicans) coming across. And if they can carry a backpack full of cocaine, they can just as easily carry a load of Anthrax or VX agent.
Each border state should put its National Guard along the fence. Boots on the ground, lots of them, is the only way to seal the border. Ask the unorganized militia for volunteers if the Guard can’t go.
And that's the rub. I know I'll get flamed for this, but we need to go back to the days when only landowners could vote. I would bet my last dime that a large majority of those milking the entitlements systems in this country are renting or squatting with their parents. If we made it such that only landowners, people who owned their homes, could vote, then only those who truly have skin in the game could vote on the direction in this country.
Don't own a home? Get a job and buy one! It would be the ultimate economic stimulator.
But no, that'll never happen. Why? Because white people cower at even the thought that something could possibly, maybe, tangentially be considered "racist." And yes, a MAJORITY of blacks and Hispanics would become "disenfranchised" over night, but what's stopping them from getting a job to buy that home of their dreams? Oh, that's right... a will to work. A lack of ethics? A lack of social morality? All of the above?
Chinese companies are taking American land—Thanks Harry Reid——to build solar farms for power.
When there are no other sources for power, the Chinese will own the USA.
The “terms of surrender” might not be not what we think. I don’t think it will be “Red Dawn”, and the enemies of this country would not just spare Obama’s life. They would make him a permanent leader, under their guidance of course.
Chinese and Russian “administrators” would come to “assist us” in our peaceful transition. And ‘agitators’ will have to be put down, as in how you put down your rabid dog. Summarily.
The first things would be to subject our legal system to a constitution free vision, redefining the role of government. -Private property, individual liberty and rights would be silently abandoned, as propaganda would spew from DC as to how we have liberated the poor and eliminated poverty and healthcare. Material shortages and food shortages will be blamed on previous practices that were put down my our newly liberated government.
Absolutely no public mention of the round up of firearms from previously legal owners, and their summary execution. Propaganda would be proclaiming the victory in the elimination of terrorist groups with “illegal arms collections”. Yes comrades, peace is at hand!! Victory of the people over the greedy!!
So in other words, our enemies would get everything they want...because it is everything Obama wants. They really don’t even have to waste the ammunition on sinking ships and fighting our military that will be scrapped anyway.
“Chinese companies are taking American land”
I think they are purchasing American land which is very different from taking.
I would like to think that when I purchase land, it is not called “taking”.
I would like to think that the USA purchased Alaska and did not take it.
Yes true.
The difference is that purchasing land in the US still requires our rule of law and constitutional protections on that property, while China ‘taking’ land would be absent of those protections.
Agree. The Capitol inhabitants look like Progressives run amuck :) I suspect that was done on purpose.
You got that right! Only a fool attacks his enemies while they are busy killing themselves and most of the fools now dwell in this country.
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