Thanks for the link Slowman!
via Ming Pao Daily.
Even more amazing is the fact that not only are they openly predicting a war over the disputed islands but that they're changing their game plan. Google Translate leaves alot to be desired but it appears that they're aiming for an air war! Why is that important?
The Navy is about to start deploying only one carrier at a time to each ocean (I assume) and the USAF is already cutting fighter/attack squadrons to pay for the F-35.
This five year time span will be the sweet spot in preparations. Just long enough for the cuts to have really sunk in, but not so late as to allow a dimwitted Pentagon and State Dept to realize the danger and start reversing the decay.
Deterrence works only as long as you have a credible force.
We're rapidly approaching a point where we don't.
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| pic via AUSAirpower.net |
Ming Pao News] Sino-Japanese relations has been deadlocked for more than a year, according to military experts analyze reports, information, etc., come to China has developed a new version of the Japanese war plan, a war against Japan will be concluded within five years. But diplomatic mainland scholars believe that Japan is in kind, the system is doing preparations for war, but the battle is still unknown whether the next day.China is gearing up for war. Too many war drums are being pounded for anything else to be plausible.
Huang said the air defense zone is part of the operational plan
Macau International Military President Huang said, the new version of the PLA war plan against Japan last May has been completed, the East China Sea is one of the air defense identification zone ring. Huang said that public information, the year before President Xi Jinping has been investigated since the South Sea Fleet and other naval forces to take over two months later visited the Air Force base in Gansu ASDC Airport workout, naval power to make bad habits disappointed, but confidence in learning than the Air Force large, so the development of operational plans, the main naval war against Japan had dominated the Air Force to consider. After the Sino-Japanese friction increasing air and air defense identification zone is in this context was born. Huang believes that once the Sino-Japanese war, the United States will be involved in, but the official media, the generals publicly visible speech, the Chinese lack of preparation for the U.S. intervention, the United States will not hold naive intervention.
Scholars refer to the war between the two countries without diplomatic intention
For Huang's view, deputy director of the Center for Japanese Studies Diplomatic Academy Zhou Yongsheng that the Japanese military preparations known, including the establishment of specialized units Diaoyu Islands, increased military spending and other physical preparations, including preparations such as liberalized regime three principles of arms exports. But he believes that the Sino-Japanese Peace and Friendship Treaty and so there are constraints, there is no war going to look at both sides.
Even more amazing is the fact that not only are they openly predicting a war over the disputed islands but that they're changing their game plan. Google Translate leaves alot to be desired but it appears that they're aiming for an air war! Why is that important?
The Navy is about to start deploying only one carrier at a time to each ocean (I assume) and the USAF is already cutting fighter/attack squadrons to pay for the F-35.
This five year time span will be the sweet spot in preparations. Just long enough for the cuts to have really sunk in, but not so late as to allow a dimwitted Pentagon and State Dept to realize the danger and start reversing the decay.
Deterrence works only as long as you have a credible force.
We're rapidly approaching a point where we don't.
