Posted on 09/16/2021 2:42:20 PM PDT by kingtom
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu The Art of War
The Chinese understand this even if you refuse to.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
—Mencken
A think tank posted an article a few years ago how fast Chyna was catching up to our military. What capabilities they thought Chyna would take 12-15 years they did in 3.
When we have warships colliding with cargo ships out in the open ocean does not give me a lot of confidence
Lol. I have the Victory at Sea DVD set. It’s actually still watchable.
I showed some episodes to my Jr High students. The pictures of the kamikaze attacks and all of the flak our ships put up really caught their attention.
I was born in 1948. So growing up we were steeped in WW2. We killed millions of japs with our plastic tommy guns. Lol.
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