Posted on 06/09/2025 6:28:05 PM PDT by bitt
In May, the commander of Edwards Air Force Base, California, talked openly about the need for local leaders to prepare for a Pearl Harbor-like strike on his base and others inside the United States.
Brig. Gen. Doug Wickert delivered “a sobering assessment of China’s growing military capabilities” in a briefing to community leaders, according to an Air Force press release. Wickert, commander of the 412th Test Wing, spoke at Antelope Valley College on May 7.
Edwards Air Force Base is in the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
According to the press release, Wickert referenced the 1941 attack on Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in his briefing, drawing parallels to warnings about Pearl Harbor’s vulnerability before the attack.
Such frank talk about the possible impact on a community around a U.S. military base, in the event of a war with China over Taiwan, is rare.
Notably, Wickert’s comments appear to be fully endorsed and approved by the Department of Defense, signaling a changing attitude.
In January 2023, Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Command, which controls much of the air transport and air refueling capacity of the Department of Defense, wrote in a letter to his command: “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025. [Chinese leader Xi Jinping] secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022.
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We probably shouldn’t keep our battleships there.
>Notably, Wickert’s comments appear to be fully endorsed and approved by the Department of Defense, signaling a changing attitude.
Hegseth strikes me as all for training and talk that A) reflects reality and B) isn’t DEI. So this passes easily.
You write for the Bee?
“Hegseth strikes me as all for training and talk that A) reflects reality and B) isn’t DEI. So this passes easily.”
Hegseth is that really STRANGE type of person who believes that the military should only be focused on winning wars.
The general is absolutely right!
We have allowed Chicom chips with back doors into systems from your microwave oven to your car to jet aircraft.
Look at what Israel did to Hezbollah and multiply times one million.
Pure insanity!
We need a national program to replace all of those chips.
Expect a bio attack by the chinks, such as UAV’s dropping chiggers onto the airbase facilities.
Pronto!
We probably shouldn’t keep our battleships there.
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No battleships but 3 carrier battle groups are at Edwards.
“The general is absolutely right!
We have allowed Chicom chips with back doors into systems from your microwave oven to your car to jet aircraft.
Look at what Israel did to Hezbollah and multiply times one million.
Pure insanity!”
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You mean we have a Chip Gap?
We need a national program to replace all of those chips.
“Chiggers” is un-pc.
They’re “Arachnid-Americans.”
They needn't bother.
Just keep coming up with more stuffed toys like the beanie babies or cabbage patch kids.
When one becomes a fad, the women of the USA will buy them, thus taking care of the distribution of whatever is planted in them.
That was the Chinese? I thought it was the Germans....
With China owning land near our military bases, it would be easy for them to do a drone attack like Ukraine did recently to Russian bases.
There’s nothing out there. Edwards makes Boron look like a teeming metropolis.
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