Pentagon Readies New Ship-Killers for Pacific Showdown -- The Danger Room
Pentagon planners were wary of China’s double-digit military-budget growth rates even before the global economic crisis put the squeeze on America’s own defense investment. Now the Chinese army’s growth continues while America’s flat-lines. That’s got the U.S. military, especially the Navy, scrambling for new ideas.
The most hopeful is an emerging concept for mixing U.S. Navy ships and subs with Air Force planes to form a tightly-knit, super-lethal, ship-killing force meant to counter an increasingly powerful Chinese fleet. The Pentagon calls it “AirSea Battle,” an homage to NATO’s Cold War “AirLand Battle” concept that pioneered tactics for taking out thousands of Soviet tanks with smart weapons. U.S. Secretary of Defense Bob Gates called the classified AirSea Battle concept “encouraging.”
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My Comment: The focus has always been on what will the Chinese do to limit U.S. military power and reach in the event of war. What has been left out of the discussion, is what will the U.S. do to limit Chinese military power and reach. This post brings some balance to what the U.S. and its allies are now planning and implementing.
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