The US Air Force and Space Force announced a plan for a major overhaul of force structures to prepare for a future war with China in the Asia Pacific.
The plan was announced on Monday by Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and other officials and includes a total of 24 changes, including 16 for the Air Force, five for the Space Force, and three for the entire Department of the Air Force.
“We are out of time,” Kendall said at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Warfare Symposium, which was held in Colorado. “Why do I say that? It’s not that I enjoy sounding like a broken record. It’s because, for at least two decades, China has been building a military that is designed, purpose-built, to deter and defeat the United States if we intervene in the western Pacific.”
According to Military.com, the majority of the changes are vague renaming and rebranding efforts aimed at focusing on so-called “great power competition.” But some changes are significant, including bringing back warrant officers, which haven’t existed in the Air Force for 65 years.
The purpose of the warrant officers would be for them to focus on information and technology warfare. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said the idea of bringing back the rank is to have airmen who want to “code for their country” and be “network attack people.”
Allvin also said the Air Force would focus more on large-scale military exercises instead of the smaller-scale drills that it has prioritized for the past few decades. “Large-scale means multiple weapons systems, multiple capabilities, coming together in a combat-simulated environment and showing our ability to execute the mission that’s going to be expected of us in the high-end conflict,” he said.
Since taking his post as the civilian head of the Air Force, Kendall has made clear his priority is China. After being sworn in back in 2021, Kendall said: “So what are my intentions now that I have this job? At a breakfast on Capitol Hill shortly after I was sworn in, I was asked by Sen. Jon Tester what my priorities were. My answer was that I had three; China, China, and China.”
While the US is focused on the proxy war in Ukraine and supporting the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the Pentagon still considers China the top “threat.” US military officials are preparing for a future direct confrontation with China despite the risk of it escalating into a nuclear war.
This follows the UK and the Baltic State yapping Chihuahua who said prepare for war with Russia. UK, USA, Estonia, and who else. . .?
In other words, China built up their military in defense of the US interfering in their region.
Yes. Self-defense. It actually applies in this case.
No, no, no, the South CHINA sea is an American sea too, you know …
FLASH!! MR. AND MRS. AMERICA AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/house-intel-chair-warns-serious-national-security-threat-ahead-planned-rcna138848
“House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, released an unusual statement Wednesday warning of a “serious national security
threat” without providing additional details, pre-empting what the White House said was a planned briefing for congressional leaders.
“Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all Members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat,” Turner wrote in the statement.
Turner said he’s requesting that President Joe Biden “declassify
all information relating to this threat so that Congress, the
Administration, and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary
to respond to this threat.”
“Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that there’s no reason to panic.”
“People should not panic — that is unequivocal. People should not panic,” Himes said.
The only threat is the threat that the U.S. poses to the rest of the world. Don’t believe the hype! When these war mongers’ lips are moving, they’re lying.
And then they went on vacation.
Andrei Martyanov comments on this today:
Bordering On Surreal…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/02/bordering-on-surreal.html
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Hey, don’t give them any ideas. 🙂
That is the idea they’re talking about. They’re bitching about alleged Russian space weapons, which Andrei explains are real and have been for a while but not what the US is claiming. They’re just dredging it up now because Ukraine is foundering.
I wasn’t going to panic before Hines opened his lying mouth.
Not a chance because it’s too late. The new Rome will fall because it’s too young and inexperienced compare to the Chinese. But good luck.
The new Rome may be young, but the leaders are collectively a million years old.
A million years old and BRAIN DEAD
A war with China will be the last war ever fought.The Chinese will.collapse the American economy and bring millions of hungry angry people into the streets.
Some delusional people running this country…!
They may be delusional, but that’s not the main problem. The problem is that they’re egomaniacal, materialistic, greedy, and support U.S. empire at all costs. The cause of all that is that they’re very mentally and spiritually unevolved, causing them to be very foolish, among other things. If they were just delusional — if they thought that horses were trees, for example — things wouldn’t be near as bad as they are.
It’s well past time the US Space Force at least doubles the number of ships in the Solar Warden fleet; threatening the DPRC is great for terrestrial military budgets, but, can we rely on our Nordic allies forever, particularly if the “lizzird peeple” come calling again ?
aliens will never show up en masse because they know that we would just eat them. thousands of rednecks, louisiana blacks and koreans all firing up their BBQ’s =
“i gots me some extra spice-rubs for these MF’s, tell you what”
it is actually hilarious to me when i realize the similarities between my korean in-laws and rednecks and louisiana blacks.
what
I recall an interesting…thought experiment, question to ponder, what-if, call it what you like…that posed this question : if a person came across an extraterrestrial & shot & killed it (how I figure / fear our first contact is likely to go…) – was that action hunting, or murder ?
Ah, the Space Force. Can’t wait to get him back.
“whatever happened to my Space Force?!”
…… Orange Lightyear
sorry man but it was never yours to begin with
The yanks will lose a war with China , they couln`t beat a bunch of ragged assed hill billies armed only with AK47 and RPGs in Afghanistan not to mention Vietnam and that was with every state of the art weapons , surveillance satellites , fighter planes ect ect ect , however it would probably be another Ukraine only this time it will be the people of Taiwan who will be fighting to keep the Americans top dog , it has to be said the Yanks are DELUSIONAL .
“Winning” and “losing” these wars now is nowhere near clear cut. Did the U.S. win in Iraq? Well, they killed Saddam and basically took over the country temporarily. Now they have a huge military presence there and refuse to leave. On the other hand, they eventually turned the country over to Iraqis. Did the U.S. win in Afghanistan? They occupied the country for 20 years and during that time removed the Taliban from power in Kabul, but were eventually forced to leave. Etc.
And remember, NO ONE wins a nuclear war.
… And China, Russia, & Iran have three priorities; US, US, US…!
Oh yay.. They’re preparing to send people into world war III. How nice, while the empire crumbles all around us. Be sure to get your kids to enlist. It may be their only job opportunity of the future.
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And just wait until you hear about psychotronic weapons…..
Shhhh. We don’t talk about that.
It may be their only chance to be at ground zero, so they can die immediately instead of suffering with radiation sickness, then dying.
Good point … I’ve often wondered about the whole duck and cover stuff in re to nuclear war … are you sure you want to survive that first strike?
We had to do duck-and-cover drills in grade school during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis (about 2 weeks), along with air raid drills. Fun times!
Backgrounded in the defense industry: recently Leidos, formerly VP of Engineering Raytheon, and in and out the revolving door at US Dept of Defense.
Are you saying the U.S. government is corrupt? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
All perfectly squeaky clean legal.
It’s the Golden Rule ya know: He who has the gold makes the rules.
Yes, Big Capital rules our democracy.
And that’s not even a mere opinion, it’s a proven fact. See the 2014 Princeton study, for example.
“All perfectly squeaky clean legal.”
That’s the worst kind of corruption.
Emphaticaly correct.
Brian Berletic covered this on his New Atlas Youtube channel yesterday:
How the US Air Force is Preparing for War with China, and Why it Won’t Work
Well then, don’t intervene halfway around the world in the Western Pacific. Isn’t the Monroe Doctrine for the Americas enough to keep the arms factories humming? If the Chinese build more aircraft carriers and deploy them in the America Hemisphere, will that just be a “show of strength” for them too? An article here on Antiwar claims the plan to deploy 5 carrier groups in the Pacific is just “a show of strength”.
I can’t imagine an article on this website claiming that. Which article and when was it published?
China is NOT Russia. Even after the back stabbing and duplicity of America Russia knows the consequences of a nuclear exchange. Russia also has an anti-ballistic missile site that covers Moscow, but still wants no part of relying on it.
For Russia Mutually Assured Destruction is MAD.
The panda on the other hand has nukes and will use them if provoked. As for retaliation the panda has proven to care little for protecting his cities and people.