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2010-09-18 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by miscellaneous 2010-09-18 17:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 China's prosperity and economic growth is dependent upon open trade routes and access to resources. Anyone who's read Mahan knows that you'd better have the means to protect such economic infrastructure. That means investment in blue water navy capability and projection ability. To spoil that infrastructure doesn't require a similar construction program in size or design.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-18 20:18|| 2010-09-18 20:18|| Front Page Top

#2 All this heavy breathing about a ground-to-sea ballistic missile is silly propaganda. Let them test such a thing. If they ever do, remember that there are at least dozens of standard missiles tested and deployed in each carrier battle group that can shoot down satellites and sub-orbital ballistic missiles.

Anyone who has read Mahan would know that the Chinese will build the fleet they need for their national interest. The US can't change that very much or worry about it. Instead, the US must maintain the ability to put navy assets in the places that are in our national interest. Lastly, should these two forces come to blows, the US needs to ensure that the forces built could be supplied in the theater and would be victorious there.

While carriers may be the most expensive part of the US fleet, its strength is in the combination of assets -- space, air, sea, land, and submarine; manned and unmanned. Even in the rare chance that a portion of that fleet were disabled or destroyed the other components would sail on and complete the mission.

China's rapidly developing navy is not a threat, it is instead the expected behavior of a rapidly developing nation that depends on access to the sea for its developing economy.

Posted by rammer 2010-09-18 20:51|| 2010-09-18 20:51|| Front Page Top

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