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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Indeed, instead of adopting the true Soviet independent model of Israel to support, we adopted the Soviet collaborating Chinese detente pipe dream... All because size mattered more than vital language, ie. Corruption.
But this is not over yet. The Chinese population is getting older, in a worst inflation case nightmare scenario of increasing population but shrinking workforce.
If the China invasion threat is not real, the economic chaos and castle of cards that the Chinese investment for the future certainly is the disaster to come.
Bump.
The ChiComms are a friggin’ joke. They don’t have the logistical ability to invade Taiwan, let alone challenge the Japanese like some recent threads are claiming.
I appreciate these kinds of scary threads in order to get more funding for our weapons systems, Hoorah for that.
The Chicomms will be subsumed and conquered by the Indians by 2030. China is a dying culture.
I have to agree with you. What some strange responses I’ve seen in this last month alone. Examples: H1b visa’s are good for the country, we’re doing fine without manufacturing, and the latest, China is not a threat. Shot down their own satellite, on their third hypersonic vehicle test, nearly double the number of subs than us currently and a bigger navy in six years time, talking about having a moon base. I wish some ass-clown would define not a threat. I don’t get it, splain it to me. /s
That doesn't fit my recollection, which was that splitting China off from the "communist bloc" would weaken the Soviet empire. It wasn't so much about what we would gain as what they would lose.
The Chinese spend $131 billion a year on defense, we spend $640 billion. Somethin’ ain’t right with this story.
well, China never really pi$$ed the Soviets off as Israel did when Israel split off from Stalin to be completely independent. That split never really occurred for China. They still view us as colonizers.
Probably because of the combination of the British in Hong Kong and elsewhere along with an infusion of American Christian missionaries particularly in Shanghai.
Japan needs to re-tool Toyota to produce robot soldiers
“The Chinese spend $131 billion a year on defense, we spend $640 billion. Somethin’ ain’t right with this story.”
Over 50% of our spending goes to cover personnel costs including a bloated general officer corps (more generals than in WWII) and a huge civilian bureaucracy which keeps growing as the forces shrink. The Chinese are also not deploying armed forces at offshore bases, nor are they funding a Navy that patrols the world’s oceans. In fact our navy subsides their foreign trade by protecting the shipping lanes. Likely the US spends more on high tech weaponry.
We also can’t assume the Chinese are truthful about their spending levels. All government data from China is suspect.
So is all governmental data from our government (see Unemployment numbers) sad to say.
Nahhhhh, still believe we can handle them...
The real war will be economic, not military action between us and the ChiComs...
I make-ahhh da special Won Ton soup for them if they don’t like-ahhh my fried lice...
“They are concentrating also on our military satellites and communications in an attempt to neutralize our technological battlefield advantage.”
Just a thought but could it be possible that the Air Force’s X-37 has spent mission time mining Chicom satellites already?
A small package that is “locked” to follow the satellites maneuvers and stay within close proximity until detonated at the appropriate time?
Better yet, maybe the X-37 has a retrieval arm and the devices are physically attached to the satellites?
“The Chinese spend $131 billion a year on defense”
We believe that because their open and democratic government is constitutionally obligated to divulge it?
That is entirely possible/probable.
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