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2009-04-08 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan Could Boost Defense Over N.Korea Launch

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Posted by Steve White 2009-04-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Just in time then???

WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC CHINA: THREE KINDS OF SINO-JAPANESE PRIMARY WAR CONTINGENCY SCENARIOS/MODELS SHOULD PLAN ON PREVENTING US MILITARY INTERVENTION ON THE SIDE OF JAPAN [ve pre-existing US-Nippon Treatises], OR IN THE ALTERNATE SCHEME FOR THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF ALL OF JAPAN'S MAJOR CITIES BY NUCLEAR ATTACK [approxi 25 major Japanese cities] REGARDLESS OF US MILITARY INTERVENTION. China should immediately target the USA for nuclear attack after it successfully destroy's Japan's cities = wipes out Japanese civilization???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-08 02:44|| 2009-04-08 02:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The Chinese are too clever by a half.

Their arming of rogue states like North Korea and Pakistan with missile and nuclear technology may have caused pain to regional rivals like Japan and India but have had the effect of causing those nations to engage in an arms buildup aimed at China itself.

In the late 1950s, India's Nehru was strongly anti-military. He resisted nuclear weapons and wanted to disband the Indian army

Soon after Independence the first commander-in-chief of the Indian armed forces, General Sir Robert Lockhart, presented a paper outlining a plan for the growth of the Indian Army to Prime Minister Nehru.

Nehru's reply: "We don't need a defence plan. Our policy is non-violence. We foresee no military threats. You can scrap the army. The police are good enough to meet our security needs."

He didn't waste much time. On September 16, 1947, he directed that the army's then strength of 280,000 be brought down to 150,000. Even in fiscal 1950-51, when the Chinese threat had begun to loom large on the horizon, 50,000 army personnel were sent home as per his original plan to disband the armed forces.

After Independence, he once noticed a few men in uniform in a small office the army had in North Block, and angrily had them evicted.

Then the Chinese attacked.

Though India tested a nuclear device in 1974, it actually had no deployable weapons. It was only in the late 1980s that Rajiv Gandhi ordered weaponization, in response to Chinese help to the Pakistani nuclear program.

The Chinese supply of missiles to Pakistan and their testing triggered the Indian nuclear tests and massive increase in the development of missiles by India.

There are now nuclear missiles aimed at targets in China.

And now they provoke the Japanese

Posted by john frum 2009-04-08 07:31|| 2009-04-08 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmm, you menace your neighbors and they take measures to protect themselves. Whoah, that's like some weird cause & effect thing!

Posted by SteveS 2009-04-08 10:03|| 2009-04-08 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 So if Kimmie goes nuclear it seems only logical that Japan will follow. Only thing is, the Japanese will have far greater technical expertise and resources to develop a truly effective deterrent, especially if they get the idea that Bambi is a soft headed moron without the will to help them. And then, of course, there is Taiwan. And what would be the chance that all of these people are talking to each other about the "China problem"? Maybe even considering some kind of a collective response? Good one, China. Did you think all these people would just lay down and die for you? But then, our own government for the past few decades has been appeasing them and sending them our money as fast as we could. Maybe somebody thought they'd be our friends if we did but I don't get a real friendly kind of a vibe from them.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-08 15:38|| 2009-04-08 15:38|| Front Page Top

#5 This all fits into the pattern of Japanese military rearmament of the past 2 decades : Clinton was seen as weak on the NKors so the Japanese started really pumping their close-in air defense, and building more capable frigates and destroyers. Under Bush, the Japanese were invited into Ballistic Missile Defense development and started deploying Patriot PAC3 batteries and upgrading ship defenses to Standard Mark 3. Now, with Obambi's limp response to the NKor launches, we can expect to see a lot more of the new "helo carrier" class of destroyers appearing in the Japanese Navy, and a BIG push for an all-Japanese BMD setup to protect Japan and its immediate 200 mile Nautical Zone. The Japanese tend to field really good equipment that is never exported, so the rest of the world tends to underestimate just capable the Japanese equipment is.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2009-04-08 17:23|| 2009-04-08 17:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The Japanese have the M5 SLV, a 2.5m diameter solid booster that can loft 1.8 tons into orbit.
A heavy ICBM of the MX class would not be difficult for them.

Japan has 50 tons of Plutonium. They have an advanced ICF program and are considered a virtual thermonuclear superpower.

If they made the decision, they could build a large arsenal (thousands) of high yield thermonuclear weapons and be able to deliver them anywhere.

The Chinese arsenal would pale in comparison.

Posted by john frum 2009-04-08 18:23|| 2009-04-08 18:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Look at all the actions in the last couple of weeks with the Big O. He does all this limp wristed grovelling Marxist globalist tranzi actions that project weakness. And now the Norks have woke up the Japanese from their pacifist sleep. At least they have a collective survival instinct.

The Big O is playing T-ball in a hard ball world.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-04-08 19:09|| 2009-04-08 19:09|| Front Page Top

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