With US-Chinese tensions at their worst level in decades, new military budget details reveal plans for the US to spend substantially on new guided missiles, particularly being sought as a way of catching up to China’s capabilities, and challenging them further in the Pacific.
Pentagon officials have argued there is a “missile gap” with China, a claim that seemed to be based on the idea of getting more funding for more advanced missiles. This has broadly been successful, even more so now that officials are emphasizing tensions with the Chinese.
Though the US spends vastly more than any other nation on its military, the Pentagon has long emphasized minor points of competition to justify massive outlays of additional cash. This has tended to work very well, which is why US military spending keeps growing.
With constant US challenges in the South China Sea, the Chinese have invested in missiles for potential naval conflicts, and the US Navy and Marines will be looking to get more “ship killer” types of missiles to go after the Chinese ships.
We have a PPE gap, that’s where we should surge the resources.
Sounds like a good way to get the US Navy sunk.
It is just money maker. There is no strategic objective in military reasoning. First, there is no concept of defense. As the epidemics demonstrated — the disorganization and seat of the pants reasoning rules supreme. When it comes to offense unless it is ultimately for the purpose of defense, it is a waste of money.
Russia is not building blue waters navy as it does not need to defend large and contested bodies of water. China must. Russia invested in icebreakers, submarines and drone submarines to repel encroaching assets that can endanger mainland. China is not wasting money in what Russia gas and vice versa.
And offensive hypersonic gliders, short and long range cruise missiles are insurance policy in case the conflict escalates and damage needs to returned in kind.
We are still clinging to the full spectrum dominance even though we do not dominate in many fields of defense technology.
More of everything is more of nothing. If defense is not the primary objective, everything else loses its purpose.
The China-bashing and the build-up to World War 3 started long before the CIA released covid-19 in Wuhan.
China allied with Russia in 2002. They formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) after they were encircled by the US/NATO War machine.
War with China means war with Russia. And it will go nuclear sooner rather than later.
Yankee go home😀
In fact they aligned their interests back in 1999 after NATO split off Serbian province of Kosovo into a NATO run, UN protectorate. Yeltsin actually went to China where they signed Shanghai-5, and with the addition of Uzbekistan, six countries signed the first Shanghai Cooperation Organization Charter.
The quietness of the organization is astounding. Yet, they have bodies in multiple levels, insuring that projects can move rapidly to fruition. The sheer volume of collaboration in all manners if things — from film and spirt, to science institutions and universities. Economy, trade and security are high on their agenda. .They are modeling a new, consultative mode of international relations. The Organization has no EU style bureaucracy or exclusivity. But it is not UN debate club impotent to implement principles it promotes. It us in fact a how-to manual of relations based on mutual respect leading up to building of trust. It is based on sovereignty-/ insuring that nobody can coerce another country into forfeiting its interests. It is a rather innovative approach to building consensus.
Now that India and Pakistan have joined, the strategic value of flexibility is invaluable. What is happening — is a carefully measured conflict resolution that gradually grinds through historic colonial inheritance.
It has bern rather amazing to watch.
war,war,war,its all the psychopaths in USA govt can think of. they need to be on the front lines when they start more BS.