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2015-09-17 Home Front: WoT

Today's U.S. Senate Hearing On The War Against The Islamic State Revealed That U.S. War Strategy Has Completely Failed

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Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Big Foot4718 2015-09-17 00:09|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 And as per CHINA out here in WESTPAC?

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST [SCMP]: NEW NANSHA RUNWAY WILL ALLOW PLA FORCE PROJECTION THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, FACILITATE CHINA + PLAN'S EVOLUTION TOWARDS BEING A TRUE "BLUE WATER" NAVY. NATIONAL AFFAIRS OF SMALLER NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES LIKE THE PHILIPPINES + VIETNAM, ETC. [ASEAN] TO NOW BE PART OF CHINA'S "CORE" INTERESTS.

* SAME > CHINA CAN TELL THE US: IFF THE US CAN ENGAGE IN MILITARY BUILDUP ON GUAM + OTHER PACIFIC REGIONS/AREAS, WE IN CHINA CAN HAVE MILITARY BUILD-UP ON OUR OWN ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.

* RELATED SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST > PLA NEEDS ADDITIONAL RUNWAY TO BREAK US GRIP IN SOUTH CHINA SEA IFF TENSIONS INCREASE, CHINA EXPERTS SAY.

* JAPAN TIMES > TENSIONS INVOLVING CHINA, JAPAN, + US POSING ASIA-PACIFIC [War]RISKS: UK THINK-TANK [IISS Strategic Survey 2015].

* YAHOO NEWS > CHINA RENEWS ITS CLAIMS TO SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS AS US THINK-TANK WARNS ON AIRSTRIP.

* WORLD NEWS > CHINA IS RIGHTFUL OWNER OF SOUTH CHINA SEA SINCE HAN DYNASTY - CHINESE ADMIRAL.

The "China" in "South China Sea" - DITTO THE "EAST CHINA SEA" ALA JAPAN???

PLAN North Sea Fleet Chief VADM. Yuan Yubai.

* TOPIX >[NY Observer] WASHINGTON WAFFLES ON KOREAN MISSLE DEFENSE [SOKOR THAAD], DELIGHTING CHINA + RUSSIA.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTANI STRATEGISTS EMBRACE NUCLEAR [LRBM, War] OPTION AS [ONLY?] ANSWER TO INDIA THREAT - DEFENSE NEWS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-09-17 01:13|| 2015-09-17 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 For USA to fail in ME is traditional.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-17 02:40|| 2015-09-17 02:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems mean to call it failure when we aren't actually doing much. A few red lines, some random air strikes, and a lot of bloviation from President "Don't Call My Bluff" isn't exactly D-Day.

Posted by SteveS 2015-09-17 03:38|| 2015-09-17 03:38|| Front Page Top

#4 ...I think it goes without saying that had this President been of the Other Party, the calls for investigation/impeachment/resignation would be as a tidal wave.

Pretty damned impressive. World War II to this in one lifetime.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-09-17 05:30|| 2015-09-17 05:30|| Front Page Top

#5 This was never a "War" strategy.

It has always been a "War Avoidance and Media PR" strategy. Calm the enemies ('pubs etc.) and mollify the base.

re: Mike.....yep that's a hell of a fall isn't it?

Posted by AlanC 2015-09-17 07:52|| 2015-09-17 07:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Only reasons we fought WWII:

1) Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
2) Hitler invaded the Soviet Union

Remember before #2, all the good commies of the world wanted us (and everyone else) to leave Hitler alone. The Russians had a treaty and Hitler was just fine.

If Hitler hadn't invaded, the hard-left commie movement in this country would have been against the war as hard as they possibly could have been, Pearl Harbor be damned.

Posted by Steve White 2015-09-17 07:57|| 2015-09-17 07:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Steve W, that is so 1930s. That is a long time ago. Unfortunately and accurately, as you suggest, if we do not learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. Many in Washington, this of history as what happened in the last election and strategy as something that affects the next election.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-17 08:07|| 2015-09-17 08:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Many in Washington, think of history as what happened in the last election and strategy as something that affects the next election.

Sorry about that.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-09-17 08:08|| 2015-09-17 08:08|| Front Page Top

#9 We'll know when the war really starts by the Curtis LeMay bombing strategy beginning.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-09-17 08:08|| 2015-09-17 08:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I kinda think we had many hints that the war failed earlier on.

Like ISIS taking over everything.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-09-17 09:52|| 2015-09-17 09:52|| Front Page Top

#11 "And so I've reached the conclusion, gentlemen, that ~~Centcom~~the Wonker Wiener Company is riddled with incompetence."

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-09-17 11:36|| 2015-09-17 11:36|| Front Page Top

#12 WW2? Hell, Cold-War win & Desert Storm/Shield to this. Barely even a generation. Neglect in the 90's started it rolling.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-09-17 15:34|| 2015-09-17 15:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Alan C - totally right. Exactly why we fail. It is high time our rulers took this war seriously and faced down the howls of "bigot islamophobe" from The Guardian and did what is necessary

Declare the Caliphate the enemy and sharia its ideology

Charge with treason those who practice sharia and deport or lock them up

The new slogan should be "Muslims are welcome, sharia is not"

and the flow on new rules should be felt with immediate effect in the Department of Immigration.

Muslim immigrants must be made to sign a declaration that they will not practice sharia.

All new immigrants should be given PROVISIONAL citiizenship only - and anybody committing a violent or sex crime, or caught participating in a sharia court or its judgements, immediate deportation.

Posted by anon1 2015-09-17 18:46|| 2015-09-17 18:46|| Front Page Top

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