The US military is planning to create a “hellscape” of drones in the Taiwan Strait if China moves to attack Taiwan, the top US military commander in the region has told The Washington Post.
Adm. Samuel Paparo, the head of US Indo-Pacific Command, told Post columnist Josh Rogin that the idea would be to send thousands of drones, unmanned submarines, and drone boats into the Strait to buy time for the US and Taiwan to prepare a defense of the island.
“I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities,” Paparo said. “So that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything.”
The US has taken steps in the direction of developing swarms of drones for a future war with China. Last year, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks outlined a plan to deploy thousands of drones controlled by Artificial Intelligence, known as the “Replicator Initiative.”
“With Replicator, we’re beginning with all-domain, attritable autonomy, or ADA2, to help us overcome the [People’s Republic of China’s] advantage in mass: more ships, more missiles, more forces,” Hicks said at a conference in September 2023. She added that the US plans to deploy the drones “at a scale of multiple thousands, in multiple domains, within the next 18-to-24 months.”
Paparo framed the plan as necessary to deter China from attacking Taiwan, but the US military buildup in the region and its new support for Taiwan has only raised tensions and is making a conflict more likely. The admiral also used Cold War-style language when discussing the situation in the Asia Pacific, saying regional countries need to make a choice between the US and China.
“The region has got two choices. The first is that they can submit, and as an end result give up some of their freedoms … or they can arm to the teeth,” Paparo said. “Both cases have direct implications to the security, the freedom, and the well-being of the citizens of the United States of America.”
Our security hasn’t been threatened at all by China.
Our elite smell de feet of a few billion people coming for their money. They plan to get most of us killed.
Since we'll have a few days to freak out before we're toast, I figure put that off and love all you got these days.
Indeed it hasn't here's why – A Neocons definition of security is different to what you and I understand by it – for a Neocon, diverting taxpayers funds to the MIC means security.
Like leganese and dog latin – they're deliberately vague and deceptive in order to hide their true intend.
That's why we need to prepare for war. How else are we going to keep wars going for president poopy pants or his suck sessers?
suck sessers
Love it.
<b>Amerika Über Alles!</b>
She'll be right over, and she's Hawt!
Your bold type didn’t work. The same thing happened at Nation of Change with font changes and they stopped allowing the posting of photos. Today they have been down all down. Grayzone also under attack. Seems sites leaning left are under pressure is my guess.
They've upgraded the system again and everyone has to learn the codes all over
testing for bold type click on B below comment box Bold click b again to end.
Thanks, I see NoC is working again. 👍
Leave China and Russia "alone" so China & Russia leave us here jn America alone. Last thing America & Americans need is a war with RUSSIA & China. Their unstoppable hypersonics will leave Americans in the same situation they had in the 50s with "Duck & Cover"…!!!!!!! We have ZERO defense against their hypersonic missiles & super nukes. WHY ARE OUR LEADERS FIXATED ON STARTING TROUBLE WITH THEM. ??? Are they CRAZY????
hypo
Yes.
”Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me….! And ALL of US!
Amen, sister!
This is what passes for "strategy" in the Pentagon these days. Martyanov is absolutely right – all these generals are simply incompetent and ignorant of real war. They have no idea how to fight a war that doesn't involve air superiority and bombing guys with sandals on and AKs.
It's like the line from "Blazing Saddles:. "You know…morons."
Remember: utterances of Pentagon General Staff should be taken as public relations news releases for the Mil-Ind corporations that these generals will, upon retirement, transition to serve openly.
In other words, the point is: sell sell sell … they do it very well.
Zelensky is going to be so pissed. All this time the US were on the verge of creating a real wunderwaffen that is guaranteed to actually work too, instead of motorized empty promises for target practice. The Ukrainian elite could probably have redirected the stolen money for the overpriced duds left from the proxywars of a bygone era to perhaps buy up a soccerclub in England or Italy.
Gosh, I can't imagine that the Chinese have anticipated this sort of drone war thing. Won't they be surprised!
Yes. And I can't imagine they will have swarms and swarms of drones of their own, totally swamping our drones … after all, it's not like they are some kind of industrial superpower like us or anything …
Yours and Clever Dogs' comments made me laugh. I had to quote them on the Alexander Mercouris podcast from yesterday on the Locals platform (giving you and Clever Dog full credit).
See my response to Caliman.
The "General" has a big F###### mouth and needs to be fired. I wonder how USA citizens will like it when they get a taste of what war against their actual homeland means and looks and smells like!!!
We will not take it well … we got a teeny tiny taste of it on 911 and went crazy for 20 years. And this time, the option of going crazy does not exist, because it would end the world.
and continue to get even crazier, we are still in Iraq stealing their oil using proxies to get it.
So their "solution" is to turn Taiwan into Gaza?
Yes, the US has promised to take out all the Taiwaness fabs, to cripple their economy. A scorched earth policy. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan just doesn't pencil out. If they grab it unscathed, their GDP goes up by 4%. Which they could achieve by doing nothing and waiting a year. That seems the preferable course. Fascinating game of chicken, where the craziest person wins or everybody loses.
If we can't have their chips, then nobody can have them!
Or planet.
It’s MAD!
We're all mad here in our own ways.
Mutually Assured Destruction!
Pipe Dreaming…!
Hmmm, the old saying is: when elephants fight, the grass gets trampled. When and why did the people of Taiwan volunteer to serve as the grass?
Were the people asked to volunteer, and if so who did the asking and how, with or without extorsion and lies?
We have had decades of opportunity to admire the competence of our military leadership, they did a great job invading Grenada and winning with some 6 Pacific allies, and Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Syria and places the taxpayers foot the bill without knowing it.
But first, we have to do so more instigating so the wet dream can become a reality. We need a "when" and not an "if".
Is it me, or are the only people hyping China attacking Taiwan is the U.S.? Sure sounds to me like they are desperately trying to push a conflict where there is none. (or is one going to be manufactured?)
Killer AI robots. What could go wrong?
Assholes are gonna do what assholes always do, what assholes just cannot help themselves from doing.
Next.
"There's 3kindza people, Chuck:
D***s P******s, and A******s…"
(TAWP)
And I want to play left field left field for the Red Sox…..
…basically, if China attacks China…
I wonder who really wrote the text for the demented Adm. Paparo. It sounds like a lousy science fiction novel written by some grade school kid dreaming to become a science fiction writer.