Chinese artist’s conception of a PLA anti-ship ballistic missile attack on three USN CVNs.
James Holmes, National Interest: If the U.S. Navy Wants to Win a War Against China They Need to Watch Star Trek First
If you’re China and confront an antagonist that opts to do without redundancy, you can deploy a troublemaking strategy. You whittle away at the center of gravity manifest in minimal manning. The object of such a strategy? Tire and bewilder crews that may already be overworked. Fling a variety of challenges at them, along as many axes as you can, as simultaneously as you can. Give each crewman more to do than he can, on the Cylon-esque reasoning that imposing numerous, repeated contingencies compounds the demands on people and hardware. Such tactics constitute the precursor to a crushing blow—or to an American withdrawal under duress.
China’s navy, in short, could ape the Cylons’ strategy. In purely martial terms, posing missile, gun, and torpedo threats from many points of the compass from as many domains as possible—from the surface, the depths, and aloft—would compel a ship’s beleaguered defenders to cope with more challenges, perhaps, than they could manage. Flooding an embattled zone with China Coast Guard vessels, fishing craft, and purportedly civilian sea and air traffic—interspersing combat units among nonmilitary ships and planes—would further complicate U.S. commanders’ picture of the surroundings. It would be hard to act for fear of hitting the wrong target—and having pictures of an errant shot splashed across TV and computer screens around the world.
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WNU Editor: I love these hypothetical war scenarios.
7 comments:
WNU,
Me too!
Well from my heart people . War only the devil wins Hear come the teers
War and religious perpuses
Loved that book Red Storm Rising
"murika's fucked", when America goes the entire kettle of fish goes with it, no Govt in the western world is even close to being Nazi, the reality is the current White House is slightly right of center, as Obama was slightly left of center, the world is still being run by the Neo Liberal Elite, not much has changed, the Phony Left Right BS is still in place and the morons are still believing in it.
My wish: from A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT (FDR) TO POT WITH EVERY CHICKEN
Once the opponents run out of ships planes and tanks, theyll realize cheap mass produced drones and bots are the only way to win and then we will all see the horror of war.
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