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2014-03-28 China-Japan-Koreas

Chuck Hagel Heads to China, Japan Next Week

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Besides the US-VS-RUSSIA UKRAINE-CRIMEA CRISIS = US-VS-CHINA TAIWAN, OKINAWA-SENKAKUS, SOUTH CHINA SEA, INDIA, ...ETC.

* CHINA DAILY > NET CITIZENS COMPARE LOST CHINESE TERRITORIES TO CRIMEA CRISIS.

* WORLD NEWS > [Deccan Chronicle = Stars-n-Stripes] PACIFIC COMMANDER: US LACKS THE ABILITY TO CONDUCT SUCCESSFUL AMPHIBIOUS OPERATIONS.

US PACOM Chief USN ADM. Locklear.

Post-GWOT, 2014 Amerika's "1-to-1-1/2" UN Police Actions = Bush/Local Wars MOOTW global strategeery.

IOW, the RussFed + PLA + IRGC, etc. will face only those [FEW?]US Milfors + other USDOD, Allied already in-place save for those arriving or intervening from CONUS + CENTCOMS.

* RELATED VOICE OF RUSSIA > BUDGET CUTS MAY ERODE US ARMY ABILITY TO FIGHT LONG WAR [Major = Protractive Wars]: ARMY GENERAL.

US Army El Supremo Odierno.

* FYI WORLD MILITARY FORUM > US LAWMAKERS [Ron Paul]: US CANNOT SAVE UKRAINE NOR CAN AFFORD WAR AGZ RUSSIA.

Ditto as I've said said even before the Ukraine-Crimea Crisi began as per Rising China in East Asia-Pacific, to include Rising Iran.

* JAPAN TIMES > ABE READY FOR FULL-ON MILITARY DIRVE, i.e. Amendment of Article 9 of Japan's post-war Constitution + national military rearmament includ possibly NucWeaps.

China fears a Japanese Nuclear = Nuke-armed State, as Japan already has the Tech know-how to produce indigenous advanced Missles + other MilSys.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-28 02:55|| 2014-03-28 02:55|| Front Page Top

#2 More ...

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [PhilStar] "CHINA MAY FUND FILIPINO REBELS".

Former PHIL Interior Secretary Rafael Alunan III.

* Also from PHILSTAR > GOVT URGED TO "PREPARE FOR THE WORSE" [worst-case scenario] IN SEA ROW WID CHINA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-28 03:17|| 2014-03-28 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 He is in China for his annual performance evaluation:

Reduced army -- check
Eliminated tomahawks. -- check
Lowered morale -- check
Purged generals -- check

Posted by Airandee 2014-03-28 06:54|| 2014-03-28 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 But balloon launched navy dragoons are going to be the awesome, throw in a spacecraft which looks like a clipper ship and a battlemech which looks like an olde england phone booth weilding a pen and we're off.

(this sucks)

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-03-28 11:47|| 2014-03-28 11:47|| Front Page Top

#5 ...that's why the Japan stop. Get the locals to update their Space Battleship Yamato series with a Space Frigate Constellation (1854) theme.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-28 12:10|| 2014-03-28 12:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Good, then they can keep up appearances by meeting with the US ambassador to...wait, she's on the other side of the world getting drunk with her son on a nude beach.

damnitdamnitdamnit

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-03-28 18:32|| 2014-03-28 18:32|| Front Page Top

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