{"id":136489,"date":"2023-01-28T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136489"},"modified":"2023-01-28T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:24:07","slug":"usaf-4-star-predicts-war-with-china-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136489","title":{"rendered":"USAF 4-star predicts war with China for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-136490 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Minihan_AMC_2021-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Minihan_AMC_2021-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Minihan_AMC_2021-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Minihan_AMC_2021.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>USAF General Mike Minihan (pictured) is the commander of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), which oversees all Air Force strategic and tactical airlift as well as aerial refueling. He&#8217;s the only general officer I&#8217;ve seen limit his displayed awards for his official photo to only his unit awards. The Air Force has an &#8220;all or some&#8221; regulation when it comes to wearing ribbons on most uniforms. As with our Navy brothers, this is <em>usually<\/em> interpreted as your top three awards. To me, it says something about the man that he chose only his unit awards for his photo. That&#8217;s one thing in his favor.<\/p>\n<p>The other is how he channels his inner General Mattis when it comes to our country&#8217;s enemies. In September of 2022 he told a military conference the Air Force was responsible for the biggest &#8220;pile of our nation&#8217;s enemy dead&#8221; among the branches of the American military and that &#8220;[w]hen you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he&#8217;s releasing a memo on 1 Feb that focuses on preparing the chronically overworked AMC for what he sees as the perfect storm of opportunity in 2025 for China to make a move on Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/usaf-general-warns-of-war-with-china-over-taiwan-in-2025\">The Drive has the story<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025. [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022,&#8221; Minihan&#8217;s memo says bluntly by way of introduction. &#8220;Taiwan&#8217;s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. [The] United States&#8217; presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi&#8217;s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAF General Mike Minihan (pictured) is the commander of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), which oversees &hellip; <a title=\"USAF 4-star predicts war with China for 2025\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=136489\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USAF 4-star predicts war with China for 2025<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}