Researching and developing new weapons technologies is a key part of the Pentagon’s strategy to counter China. In an interview with Defense News, President Biden’s new Air Force secretary said he’d like to see the US military field the type of new technologies that “scare China.”
Frank Kendall, who was sworn in as Air Force secretary on July 28th, made it clear in the interview that he is focused on China. “I’ve been obsessed, if you will, with China for quite a long time now — and its military modernization, what that implies for the US and for security,” he said.
Hyping up the threat of China’s military serves the Pentagon to justify more spending, and Kendall hinted that he believes the Air Force doesn’t have a sufficient budget. “The Air Force has been overly constrained,” he said. “I think we’ve not been allowed to do things we really need to do to free up resources for things that are higher priority. We’ve had a very hard time getting the Congress to allow us to retire older aircraft.”
One project that Kendall discussed is the B-21 bomber, which is currently being developed. “I think that’s going to be something that will be intimidating, it’s going to be very capable. And there are a few others like that that are coming down the pipeline. … But I think we have to be continuously thinking about other things that will be intimidating to our future enemies.”
The Pentagon budget requested by President Biden prioritized spending on new weapons technology. The budget request asked for over $112 billion for research, development, testing, and evaluation, known as RDT&E. Besides new long-range bombers, US military leaders are calling for investment in technology like artificial intelligence, robotics, space and cyber capabilities, and hypersonic missiles.
Comments like Kendall’s concerning China are now commonplace from military leaders in Washington. Biden’s new Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said during his Senate confirmation hearing in July that he would focus “exclusively” on China in his new position.
…. Even if you beat fools until they’re half dead, you still can’t beat their foolishness out of them.
Proverbs 27:22
Tell that to Evangelicals then watch their heads explode.
“If you read the Bible seeking confirmation of your beliefs, then you’re doing it wrong.”
Evangelicals only read the parts that they want to read.
The best policy for the US is not to have future enemies. If you can’t beat them , join them and everyone wins.
That’s the game plan. It’s called NWO. United for evil. All China has to do is shut down exports to US. With no manufacturing base, game over.
Coincidentally enough, China’s “modernization” puts their total annual military budget at approximately the pentagon’s budget just for new technology. China spends a third what the US empire spends on its military. And what do the top brass think they can “scare China” into doing? Increasing their military budget even more, perhaps..?
Irrelevant. Modernization means going with electrified-everything to ‘save the planet’ from climate change.
The next war will likely go nuclear with EMP nukes, and China, like the U.S., will be to far down the electrify-everything road to escape collapsing under the weight of their own populations.
Microchips are in everything modern regardless of power system, so electrify everything doesn’t change emp vulnerability much.
The critical difference between now and 2035 is that the fossil fuel and especially gasoline infrastructure we have now, will have been mostly replaced by ‘green’ alternatives.
For example, a really good mechanic in 2021 could probably work around fried electronics to get ICE tech going on some vehicles, and there are plenty of classic cars still about, but without easy access to gasoline they’re useless. Every gas station is a pool of stable energy. What a massive EMP will do to future batteries is not known, but it doesn’t take much damage now to make a Tesla burn to slag, as the battery takes up the floor of the vehicle.
Only the government and a few corporate entities would still be using ICE tech, as its not likely that hi-powered military vehicles will all be run on batteries. Those organizations also have the ability to stockpile fossil fuels and fossil fueled technologies.
Every gas station is a pool of degrading energy, with 10 % ethanol attracting moisture from our always humid climate disrupted air. Power is not assured in the disaster scenarios we’re speeding towards.
In the immediate aftermath of an mass EMP event (in 2021), fresh gasoline can run Internal Combustion Engine tech from generators to transportation, perhaps long enough to restore enough of everything else sufficiently for most people to not only survive but rebuild.
The networks of entitled government and private defense bunkers designed to survive mega disasters would also come with the know-how to store gasoline long-term.
If I am correct the salaries of the men and women of our Armed Forces do not show up in the US GDP because they do not create any product.
The dollar value of our annual military budget is about 3% of the dollar value of our GDP which suggests that China’s military budget is about 1% of its GDP. However that is more like 1.3% since China’s GDP for 2021 is estimated at 0.7 times ours. Still China’s percentage is smaller than ours.
Of course the delta variant of the coronavirus can still change that comparison before the year is over. Most likely in favor of China.
If the Nimitz “Tic Tac’s” are CCP technology we are already beaten, and they may very well be, as the USA has admitted they don’t know who fly’s them, except they surely are not USA craft! 🙂
That seems like something that the CCP neither would be able to, nor want to, keep secret.
Thomas, I disagree, but if you are right the alternative is mind blowing!!
The Russians had at least three moles passing them information on the Manhattan Project at least as early as 1944, a year before the atomic bomb made its debut.
The “tic tacs” have been around a lot longer than a year, and people both get around a lot more and communicate more secretly and easily across longer distances now than then. In my opinion, f the CCP had developed this technology, not only would someone have talked to other governments about it, someone would have talked to the public about it by now.
Furthermore, the technology would be less useful if kept secret. At present, it mainly freaks out pilots, etc. If Beijing had it, one might think they’d have given a demonstration of it in, say, the Taiwan Strait by now. That would have a huge effect, advantage China, on US policy in the Pacific Rim.
I don’t know where the “tic tacs” come from. I tend to think they are extraterrestrial. But I could be wrong.
There are two facts about the Nimitz “tic tac” which can be derived from the film. If this is some kind of flying object it seems to fly at exactly the same speed as the US Air Force plane. Its erratic up and down movement may actually be the movement of the on-board camera.
Thomas, yes, I was shocked to learn of those “leaks”!
Well, for sure than, we have an unknown player interested in our nuclear assets. Hmm.
Meh. Probably advanced holograms, courtesy human researchers from DARPA.
For some reason there was a big push to make people believe in UFOs, but no-one cares.
Brock,,the facts are the ” Tic Tac’s” were also viewed on radar and by the F-18 pilots, besides being filmed, all the F-18 pilots agree as do the personnel on the flying radar Orion, who also eye balled the UAP. The observation that “no-one cares” is all the more reason for the Dc Ghouls to let all the facts hang out, including films and still photos that they have a plenty, per Senator Reid of NV.
Today’s radar are not WWII radars. Today’s radar are so software-dependent you only see what the software is programmed to present, and no-one could know any better fact from spoof unless they were able to audit the code.
All the black boxes for aircraft and ship radars were spirited away. Many of those sightings were from training missions in safe waters where self-spoofing instruments carried no tactical risks.
All the pilots had only their mark-one eyeballs and heavily programmed instruments to tell them what they were seeing, with no way to run independent tests nor freedom to break with training protocols to try anything outside the box.
Everything the government says of major import is a lie, so why trust them with a flip flop on UFOs?
Advanced beings that fly in space would seem to have no reason to be coy. If they really were out there buzzing Earth, there’s no way we’d need government affirmation.
Like Nessie and Bigfoot, UFO sighting have always somehow matched the latest FX technologies and technological expectations.
In fact UFO tech seems to ‘improve’ with every generation of UFO watchers, staying juuust out of reach of our most advanced capabilities to intercept and properly document them.
That’s not necessarily what you’d expect from longstanding advanced spacefarers.
And how, precisely, do you know what to expect from longstanding advanced spacefarers?
There are areas on Earth where the more advanced cultures try, but sometimes fail, to stay out of the way, and beyond the notice of, more isolated and primitive ones.
Is there any reason to suppose that it’s impossible that Earth as a whole isn’t treated that way by others?
The thing about UFOs/UAPs is that they are unidentified. All we can do is guess at the explanations. And “extraterrestrial in origin,” whether the case or not, isn’t anything like beyond the realm of possibility.
Of course, if we live in a simulated reality, which is also well within the realm of possibility, they might be glitches, or in-simulation entities with some kind of function in the programming.
Or, yes, they could be advanced aircraft from one of the planet’s regimes. Or something else.
Well, what is there to expect when there is no definite frame of reference?
Reality is, if someone tangible was truly believed to be out there and even watching, you’d think our rulers would behave a bit better instead of letting their sociopathy and psychopathy all hang loose.
Unless they think that’s posturing against aliens with a demonstration of power. Or attention seeking mal-behavior.
So… with no rational frame of reference except known human idiocy, there is no other conclusion than this particular UFO thing is just another dumb social control play by Earthly human sociopathic powers that presume to be.
A.T. is it also possible that what is truly going on is beyond what OUR feeble and very limited human mind can comprehend? Sort of like the leaders of the major religions really thinking they know all about the mind of God the Creator,,self delusional foolishness.
I’m not particularly religious, although Odin is one cool archetype by some interpretations.
Moral common sense is not high mathematics. Don’t lie, cheat, steal, bully or murder and, make that work as to not be lied to, cheated against, stolen from, bullied or murdered.
When a elite or wannabe elite paternalistically says you wouldn’t understand, its usually because you would understand and get in the way of some deceptive plan not in your best interest nor that of most everyone else.
Secrecy is a tool in social warfare games, not honest relationships based on mutual trust, respect, and truly shared positive universal values.
A.T.,,I don’t need the Feds to confirm what I know as to be truth, and I do believe what Fravor and the other Hornet pilots saw and what was backed up by the radar techs. You are mistaken about all that you have wrote, but that is your right to be wrong. The real truth of what is going on would possibly mean the collapse of much of the institutions that many hold so dear as well as economic collapse and mental health issues on a grand scale. I try to live and enjoy every day to the fullest as I know what sheer chaos the next day can bring,,,,today may be your best day, for you and your loved ones.
And the truth is?
The probability of advanced interstellar alien life is high. The probability of a(n) Earth-borne culture(s) going intrastellar to allow new sophont life to spawn on Earth is high. None can be confirmed as true, only as ‘belief’.
I don’t doubt the honesty of the witnesses, only their interpretation of events given the limitations of their instruments and freedom to experiment.
COVID-1984 and wars are going to collapse all that we hold dear, and aliens aren’t going to come to our rescue. Logically, they can’t afford to. We cannot and will not control our psychopaths and sociopaths; instead those forces define our lives at all levels of society.
The Great Filter works at many stages; life has to pass many barriers to achieve sophontry and autonomy, to defend itself from nature, but also to survive itself and the capacity for self destruction.
If we cannot survive ourselves, the rest of the universe is better off without us cycling gleefully in yin-yang churlishness. All lives matter, even alien and if such advanced civilizations exist, they exist they surely can’t be fooled. Our lives matter, but we have to back that up, and we don’t. We just virtue signal.
We couldn’t stop any wars nor scams like COVID-1984 and climate change. We can’t stop the petty to extreme cruelties of our societies, from psychological and physical bullying and hazing to serial killers. Some are so blind as to even capitalize upon and celebrate the pain inflicted in entertainment products.
Many putatively enlightened individuals are somehow sympathetic to the carnage of a mass social collapse and a global depopulation for ‘the greater good’. For themselves of course. Everyone else but their enlightened selves has to make the big sacrifice.
Its not enough to fight the good fight anymore, we have to win; that the problem cannot be framed in any other way but violent conflict suggests we have lost and the Great Filter will eventually finish the job.
A.T., It is very possible that the ‘”Others” do not care about humans, only to fear them, but they really care for the paradise Earth and they may be looking for a humane way to exterminate humans in the least damaging and painful way. I will tell you that I have been researching this topic for over 50 years and with the internet the flow of information on this topic has grown enormously, it can no longer be hidden to those who really care to find the truth, and can handle it.
Paradise by what standard? Seems these supposed outworlders have a very human sociopathic way of regarding ‘the other’.
At the rate we’re losing species, they’d be better off with the quick kill over polite taper to save ‘paradise’. Otherwise, your notion seems more like a faction of oligarchs posing as aliens.
Great Filter theory includes extermination by an older species further along the filter, having survived themselves to the point where they can devote resources to keeping others down over avoiding destroying themselves.
Its very easy to put us out of our collective misery; smack the planet with a very large asteroid, reseed with keystone pioneer ecological samples from phytoplankton and microfauna to flowers and non-technological animals. NO sophont survivors from the previous ecology.
There’s no need for an elaborate ‘humane’ mass euthanasia. If there’s some rule against killing us directly, gaming that rule to enable us to better kill ourselves is morally worse from the standpoint of universal social morality.
Better hurry before we stumble onto time travel, if that’s possible.
If the “buck” stops with the President wouldn’t he be responsible for letting that Air Force plane take off with a bunch of desperate people hanging on for dear life? Maybe our new Air Force Secretary can let us know who made the decision to sacrifice those lives. Seems to me it would have been a small thing to abort the take off and get those people off the plane, a few minutes lost, no big deal.
So the President of the United States should cancel the evacuation?
That’s what stopping any and every plane that some panicked individual decided to grab onto would amount to.
That plane was unloading cargo before taking off in fear of being rushed by hundreds of people on the tarmac in the middle of the Taliban takeover.
The crew would have little way of knowing and little reason to care about anyone dumb enough to climb onto a moving airplane.
If you say well, those Afghans were scared and not thinking straight, that probably went both ways.
I would like to tell Secretary Kendall, to his face, F*CK OFF!!!
If you want to terrify a billion Chinese, cut off their smartphone service.
Bombers have to drop a few bombs to be taken seriously, and both sides are too jaded by their own sabre-rattling.
China may be the aggressed party, but the CCP dropped the ball with COVID-1984. No-one wants to live under constant social credit surveillance and lockdown. CCP China has lost any sense of the difference between big face and good face like the West.
With India and Indonesia going ivermectin and winning, yet China still pushing vaccines and social credit surveillance, the CCP has placed itself in the same disdained camp as Western oligarchs in the eyes of the common Asian.
We seem to have an Air Force Secretary who behaves on the international podium like a kindergarten kid. “I scared you, I scared you!”
You should be scared.
World wars, affect the world.
the world is in great danger when u have guys like this in charge of the military!
By now the debacle in Afganistan and the waste of trillions of dollar over 20 yrs should be a wake up call for most Americans. Imagine what the money can do for the country! What are/were our leaders’ priorities?!