Aircraft from the Freedom Fighters of Carrier Air Wing 7 flying in formation above the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Harry S. Truman. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian M. Brooks
Alex Lockie, Business Insider: The US Navy just sent Russia and China powerful messages with aircraft-carrier shows of force
* The US Navy carried out two high-profile aircraft-carrier training events in key waters that send messages to China and Russia.
* The US has identified China and Russia as its great rivals and has said it intends to build military capacity to thwart their military ambitions.
* The US Navy hadn't been taking an active role in checking these two countries, but recently it made big statements.
* Exercises including strong US allies and F-35C stealth jet fighters no doubt raised eyebrows in Moscow and Beijing.
The US Navy carried out two high-profile aircraft-carrier training events in key waters that send messages to China and Russia, the US's two main competitors and the only countries close to matching the US's military might.
The US Navy's Ronald Regan Carrier Strike Group joined Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's Escort Flotilla 4 Battle Group to conduct joint military exercises in the hotly contested South China Sea on Friday, the Navy said.
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WNU Editor: The Russians and Chinese are sending their own message to the U.S. .... 300,000 Troops, 1,000 Aircraft and 900 Tanks: Russia's Massive War Games Has 1 Goal: To send a message. (Brad Howard, National Interest/Task and Purpose)
3 comments:
The Cold War featured arms control agreements, unconstrained buildups of nuclear arms, broad trade and technology restrictions on the Warsaw Pact, fortified borders and proxy wars. Today we aren't in identical circumstances but arms control agreements are dead and some are unraveling.
INF is all but dead and awaiting its funeral. Once it's gone the US will work with Japan and Australia on intermediate range missiles to match China's DF-21's.
The US is already in the early stages of replacing its complete triad and it's possible numbers could rise above START II treaty numbers should it lapse as seems likely. China is unconstrained by any nuclear arms agreement is is fielding nuclear weapons at a Cold War pace.
Broad trade and technology restrictions implemented by the USA against both China and Russia are being put in place.
So Cold War 2 is starting with some of the main features of Cold War 1 already in place.
What we see with these maneuvers falls squarely in Cold War 1 conduct between the adversaries, expect much, much more of it in the near future.
As long as they are sending message there is no damage. That's better than sending missile.
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