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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'The big one is coming': US military nuclear commander warns America is falling behind China, is 'going to get tested in ways that we haven't been tested in a long time' - and that Ukraine is 'just the warmup'
2022-11-05
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Navy Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of Stratcom, addressed a gathering of top military officials in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday

  • Richard warned that further investment in the US military was needed, in the face of rising threats

  • 'This Ukraine crisis that we're in right now, this is just the warmup,' he said. 'The big one is coming'

  • Richard added: 'It isn't going to be very long before we're going to get tested in ways that we haven't been tested a long time'

  • He said not enough was being done to counter Chinese aggression, saying: 'As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking'

  • Richard called on Pentagon chiefs and policy makers to return to the dynamism of the 1950s and 60s, and a phase which saw the U.S. put man on the moon
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Stratcom: 2022-08-05 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 4th, 2022
Stratcom: 2022-08-04 Operational summary of the Ukrainian General Staff for the evening of Wednesday, August 3
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  Yuangwan Class ships are needed to guide a ballistic missile over the Pacific. The Chinese do now have any radar sites all over the world like the west does so they depend on those. You know they are about to launch east when they deploy.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-11-05 20:27  

#9  I think they're saying it's monitoring some Chinese satellite launches, Secret Master. We know two were planned for November. The number 5 is also in Srilankan port. However we are conducting our own missile tests at the moment and have had to reschedule.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-11-05 17:29  

#8  Thanks, Dron. Not a heck of a lot of news coverage that I can find.
Posted by: Matt   2022-11-05 17:05  

#7  Goddam: I just had a look at the Yuangwan Class Number Six! That is truly one crazy, ugly as hell ship. And its purpose in theory is to guide ICBM's down on you? Yikes. It's mere presence is a provocation.
Posted by: Secret Master   2022-11-05 16:40  

#6  For obvious reasons, these days China is trying to win friends not make enemies. And the stupid sanctions thing, that has galvanised and put the whole de-dollarization thing into high gear. So they know they can't afford to fight someone they want to able to keep trading with.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-11-05 16:37  

#5  There are two main regions in East Ladakh, Matt, that India-China were deadlocked in till last month. With major military muscle raring to go and men shouting curses across no-man's-land. Then it was resolved with commander level talks and both gave each other a face saving pull back. Diplomatic talks are on. We are both watching each other. I wish I could say more. There are interests however, that would have India and China keep at each other's throat.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-11-05 16:31  

#4  Dron, what's going on at the LAC? Rock throwing or something more?
Posted by: Matt   2022-11-05 16:19  

#3  Right now they're giving us a headache by planting their stupid ugly recon vessel yuangwan class no. 6 in the Indian Ocean. The fags in New Delhi have to posture now and act all incensed and shoo them away or wait it out.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-11-05 16:11  

#2  As I crudely understand it, tw, the '20's are the decade in which poor shipbuilding decisions by the Navy come home to roost. And that's not a problem we can quickly correct. Extensive professional discussion of the issue here. But the Chinese have their own set of problems.
Posted by: Matt   2022-11-05 16:05  

#1  It seems to me that if we can just hold the line another two decades or so, China will no longer be able to be a serious military threat. They’ll still have infectious micro-organisms and an appetite for mischief, but they’ll no longer be a manufacturing center able to hold world trade hostage, and their excess military age males will have aged beyond interest in fighting.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-11-05 15:10  

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