{"id":114851,"date":"2021-06-24T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114851"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:04:36","slug":"war-hawks-hawk-war-with-china-on-a-painters-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114851","title":{"rendered":"War Hawks hawk war with China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeff LPH 3 sends in this article from Military Times<\/a>. Within they discuss how some “think tankers” are pushing to permanently station a US Army brigade combat team on the island nation of Taiwan. Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) is considered by the communist rulers of mainland China (the People’s\u00a0<\/em>Republic of China) to be a breakaway state. Tensions with an increasingly emboldened China, who has been rapidly building up their military forces and modernizing their equipment, have been rising. Stationing a BCT there would surely be seen by the Communist Chinese as an escalation and perhaps even an act of war.<\/p>\n

Front the article;<\/p>\n

If the Army is serious about countering the Chinese military in the Pacific, it needs to permanently station an Armored Brigade Combat Team on Taiwan, according to some think tankers.<\/p>\n

That type of basing decision would likely abandon the current policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan, which intentionally leaves it unclear as to whether Americans would defend the island in a cross-strait conflict. Uncertain about their superpower backers, Taiwanese leaders are less likely to unilaterally declare independence and China is less inclined to hurry to war.<\/p>\n

Still, arguments for a kind of \u201ctripwire force\u201d have gained steam in recent months, including from a fall of 2020 essay published in a U.S. Army professional journal.<\/p>\n

Such a force would make China know it would confront U.S. troops on the first day of any planned invasion of the island or push eastward into the Pacific, said Dr. Loren Thompson, CEO of the Lexington Institute. Thompson spoke about the service\u2019s role in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command at an Association of the U.S. Army panel on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no substitute for being there on the first day of conflict,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They also explore how this could rapidly spiral into a nuclear war. Which their expert lays out as some sort of justification for stationing ground troops on the contested island.<\/p>\n

Bolstering his advocacy of stationing an ABCT along with support capabilities in Taiwan, Thompson said that \u201cthere are big problems with depending on long-range air power and naval forces\u201d to deter or prevent an invasion of Taiwan.<\/p>\n

The Air Force has only a handful of bases within the 2,000-mile range of Taiwan, he said. And more than half of the two dozen locations suggested for basing air assets for use in the Pacific have runways too short for a B-52 bomber to take off.<\/p>\n

To top it off, the air service only has 158 long-range bombers in its entire fleet, many of which are not operational day-to-day, Thompson said.<\/p>\n

Thompson added that if the Air Force were to use nuclear-capable bombers on conventional missions to China, it could trigger China\u2019s use of its nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n

The Navy, he said, has a \u201crelatively small fleet to deploy\u201d in the crowded area around Taiwan. And its assets would be vulnerable to growing Chinese Navy capabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biden needs a war to distract from all of his gaffes and horrendous policy decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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