Speaking today at the conference for the China Aerospace Studies Initiative, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work pushed for more US military spending on weapons research, saying that the Chinese Air Force is rapidly catching up with its American counterpart in capabilities.
Work described China as a rising power, and insisted that interaction with the US, an established power, would likely eventually result in war, saying the US has historically relied on its technological superiority and massive nuclear arsenal as a “hedge” against China.
With the technological gap getting narrower, the huge nuclear arsenal apparently isn’t enough to cut it anymore, and Work urged the US to spend up ways to get that technological superiority back in place, putting particular emphasis on laser weaponry.
Work noted that directed energy weapons could theoretically knock expensive missiles out of the sky for a fraction of what the missiles themselves cost. That’s all true, of course, but exactly how much the Pentagon will spend on getting such weapons working in the first place is unclear, and the Pentagon, as ever, simply wants to fund everything in the hopes that some of that stuff will work out.
Right, throwing money at weapons manufacturers is the solution. It's working really well for the F-35.
You should have also added the USS America and Navy Littoral Combat ships…
I know there are a whole lot of other lemon projects out there, but I can't recall them all. I was hoping others would add to the list.
Hey, why don't we just give them their own printing press already..Oh wait..They…
"…insisted that interaction with the US, an established power, would likely eventually result in war…"
No, it won't…unless that is the desired outcome which is what it sounds like this idiot wants. And this idea that our technological superiority and massive nuclear arsenal has been a “hedge” against China is pure BS. Our technological superiority has been used by these people as a hedge against retaliation from other countries for the warmonger's attempts to subsume them into PAX Americana. These people have no desire that America play the part of world citizen…they want to control it all…or destroy those who refuse to take the knee.
Brutal imperialism being all that our Empire has ever been, a superior ability to kill our only stock in trade, such as war materials in trade for Middle-East oil, surely it is true that our F35 type technology will give Empire USA the invincibility it need to survive.
Problem is, the enemies of an Empire will always outnumber the friends, the kill or be killed insanity always destroys any hope of morality and if we look at what contractor greed has done to the F35, in about six seconds it could all blow up in our face.