Posted on 01/30/2015 10:55:57 AM PST by raptor22
Arms Buildup: A senior weapons developer tells Congress that Beijing's massive defense buildup, emphasizing precision-guided and other advanced weapons, has placed the U.S. and its shrinking military at serious risk.
'I am very concerned about the increasing risk of loss of U.S. military technological superiority," Frank Kendall, deputy undersecretary for acquisition, said Wednesday. "We're at risk, and the situation is getting worse." He was testifying before the House Armed Services Committee at a hearing on the subject of defense and technological change.
The Chinese were paying attention to U.S. military dominance in the early 1990s after we won the arms race and the Cold War, he said. And they watched and analyzed our ability to project overwhelming power in Desert Storm after Iraq invaded Kuwait. "No one observed more carefully the dominance we demonstrated in 1991 than the Chinese," Kendall observed.
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CHINA THREAT PING
But wait, wasn’t Fwee Twade supposed to moderate their behavior? After all, they wouldn’t attack a trading partner would they?
Would they?!
Obama will throw a party to celebrate
He’ll also help them when the time comes for the sneak attack by having all the military stand down and just take it.
Obama isn’t the only one to blame for this. We were sold down the river decades ago. Looking in hindsight, it would have been good to let the Soviets nuke China in the late 60’s/early 70’s when they were at odds.
This will finally hit home to the American people when we have a Carrier at the bottom of the Ocean, and lose a few thousand men in the process. Unfortunately, 0bama will be out of office, and not pay the price for it when it actually happens. Certainly Clinton and possibly both Bushes could share in some of that blame too....
They are concentrating also on our military satellites and communications in an attempt to neutralize our technological battlefield advantage.
Could = Should imho
Was just being charitable, not looking to post flame bait. lol
Good think Clintoon (the bent one) showed them how to make their missiles shoot straight!
Then we'll hear the proverbial "How could this have happened? I demand a full investigation."
If things don't change they'll stay the same. /s
I think he is the one who told the Governor to pull the NG out of Ferguson so there could be riots.
Doesn’t surprise me.
AND the Chinese hate us... nice job Obama and his thugs did hiding that truth from the people of the United States....
Free trade paid for their economic ascendancy and their military buildup. Manufacturing capital and jobs moved out of the United States to China and other Asian countries. As a result we have a shrinking middle class, rising wealth concentration in the hands of a few elitists, huge social welfare expenditures, a huge unemployed working age population and an increasingly authoritarian government giving the sheeple a few crumbs in exchange for votes. This is what every third world dictatorship looks like.
After this 25 year experiment with free trade and globalization, where are the benefits promised? There are none, at least for the average citizen, and if we continue down the current road the USA will be a third world hellhole in 20 years.
While we stand by practicing open markets free trade, China and every other “trading partner” views us as easy pickings. They practice bare knuckle economic mercantilism, not to mention theft of intellectual property and overt hacking of computer systems in order to damage commerce, while we silently stand and take the punches.
It is time to end this foolish academic experiment which has destroyed our manufacturing infrastructure, is destroying the middle class, and will destroy our republican form of government. Let’s start fighting back with a 30% levy on all imported goods. Take the corporate tax rate to zero on profits realized from domestic production. Lift regulatory burdens and apply tax dollars to rebuilding our infrastructure instead of funding worthless “education” and social welfare programs. Direct education “investment” to trade schools teaching real skills, not liberal arts theories.
Do this and China’s export economy will be crushed while the US economy will prosper. Continue with the current failed “free trade” policies and China will complete the conversion of its export factories to supplying the needs of its growing middle class. Once that transformation occurs, the US will be a hopelessly indebted nation with no industrial infrastructure to revitalize its economy and most of its citizens will enjoy the lives similar to those of the unemployed in Central America, Bangladesh, and most African nations.
Hey, but we allowed homosexuals and trannies to serve openly.
And allowed women on submarines.
That’ll show ‘em.
So will Putin.
I was getting my business degree When the global free trade started gaining traction. It was sold to me as a win-win for US, but it has not worked out that way. Our tax code and labor laws hasn’t helped, also we provide military for free to other countries, etc., so all things are not equal.
Raise the import tariffs. Start building stuff in America again, and the Chinese will sell their weapons for food.
Great review of the reality of the Lie sold to us.
” where are the benefits promised? “
Hey...iPhones cost $30 less then if they were produced in the U.S. ! Woo hoo! Big Win!
I have been all across America in the 25 years since this crap got turbocharged in the early 90s. It makes me sick. Factories shut down in the mid West, the South, the Northeast and even the West: the only thing that survives are government related, living on inflated costs and U.S. only restrictions.
One comment: we just had the spectacle of the Muslim-In-Chief bowing to the latest Arab monarch to sit on Saudi Arabia’s throne. But is that where the dynamism has been?
No. It’s in Texas and North Dakota, where we have used our technology and willpower to frack our way out of dependence on them. But did we see this “president” out in Eagle Ford, high fiving the people? No. They are being laid off while the nowhere people’s cartel tries desperately to run them out of business.
How ‘bout a bit of help for our people too?
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