The US Army’s Special Operations Command (USASOC) simulated defending Taiwan from a Chinese invasion in the latest example of the US military preparing for a direct war with China.
According to Military.com, the drills were part of the USASOC’s annual capabilities exercise, or CAPEX, which took place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The soldiers simulated being inserted into Taiwan during a Chinese attack.
It marks the first-ever use of Taiwan as a scenario for the annual exercise and demonstrates the US Army’s shift away from counterterrorism to preparing for wars with major powers.
Military officials leading the drill explicitly named China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) as the enemy, which Military.com said was “an unusually direct move, given the military’s hesitancy to overtly suggest conflict.”
Lt. Gen. Jonathan P. Braga, commanding general of USASOC, said in a speech ahead of the exercise that China, “in accordance with our national defense strategy, is our true pacing challenge out there.”
An unnamed Green Beret officer told a crowd during the drills that he was “going to receive a brief from my boss giving us a task to conduct an operation to counter the PLA on the island of Taiwan.”
President Biden has said several times now that he would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack, breaking from the decade-old policy of strategic ambiguity on the issue. In September 2022, Biden was asked explicitly if, unlike Ukraine, he would send American men and women to defend Taiwan from an invasion. He replied, “Yes,” and the White House didn’t walk back the pledge.
WWIII?…Between nuclear armed US and nuclear armed China?… “They don’t like us anyhow, let’s drop the big one and see what happens?” Is Bye-done almost done yet?… “So long, it’s been good ta know ya, so long”….WTF???………………………
Inhale………………………………………………………………………………
I’m an idiot?! Smack head! I almost forgot to throw in Russia and Ukraine……Smack head……………………………………………..
Dear Planet Earth, it was fun, while it lasted…
Word of the day: VAPORIZE……………………………………………..
EXHALE. Inhale again………………………………………………………
I almost forgot……..I began fighting for PEACE, since I was a little kid. The first time another kid hit my big brother, I smacked the kid on the arm. From then on, I was all about PEACE.
Bad, bad, bad!! And it can always get worse, and unless things turn around quickly, it will.
Since when are we obligated to send our men and women to die for a territory we don’t even recognize ourselves? The insanity behind the hawks on Taiwan will be the death of us all. Taiwan is 100 times more important to China than it is to us. All we care about as told my our own politicians are the semiconductor factories. Of course, China is not Vietnam nor Afghanistan (we lost both of those wars); it’s a nuclear armed world power.
Why the heck are we stirring up a hornet’s nest? 70 years of peace over the Strait and the One China Status Quo not good enough for us? It’s certainly good enough for the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Trying desperately to provoke another unprovoked and illegal invasion. The world is watching this bully spectacle … and is not amused.
They pretend we are their foes during their war games and….hold it…wait…we decide we might do the same….
The stuff mouthpieces like Military.com get all wet and giddy over.
An unnamed Green Beret officer told a crowd during the drills that he was “going to receive a brief from my boss giving us a task to conduct an operation to counter the PLA on the island of Taiwan.”
What the fucK? Are they selling tickets to the war games.? Does the crowd chant USA! USA!? Autograph sessions afterwards?