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While the world is occupied by the ongoing Iranian nuclear dance, another Arab Spring to Islamic supremecy and Obama's narcissic run to American czar, China is building up their military strength.
China Rushes To Fill America's Military Vacuum
Beijing announces another double-digit jump in military spending as the U.S. disarms and sacrifices its defense budget on the altar of entitlement spending. We have many duties; the Chinese have but one target.
China announced this week that its military budget this year would rise 11.2% on top of a 12.7% increase last year. This does not bode well as the U.S. defense budget and force levels decline as a result of cuts mandated by our failure to come to grips with runaway spending.
As China ramps up military spending, President Obama's budget contains $487 billion in cuts that, when added to the half-trillion or so in cuts mandated by the sequestration process, leaves us a military with a precipitately declining capability to meet its global commitments and responsibilities.
The Heritage Foundation has labeled as "factually incorrect" the assertion by Obama and others that U.S. defense cuts are only in the rate of growth. These are real cuts with real consequences, and the consolation that our budget is still larger than the next dozen or so countries combined ignores the fact that none of these states has our global commitments or interests.
China has only one interest — expanding its power beyond its coastlines into the Western Pacific and South China Sea and to be able to defeat any opposing forces within that theater of operations. The president has promised "budget reductions will not come at the expense of that critical region." Yet by crunching the numbers of projected U.S. force levels, it's hard to see how it could not be otherwise.
Heritage reckons the president's budget cuts alone would result in the loss of eight combat brigade teams in the Army, six Air Force tactical fighter squadrons and one training squadron, and 130 aircraft. Ground forces will be reduced by 73,000, or 13%, in the Army and by 20,000, or 10%, in the Marines.
As a result of the president's cuts, we will retire nine Navy ships and reduce the acquisition of new ships. President Reagan's 600-ship Navy will be reduced to less than we've had at any time since World War I. The Navy will shrink to 238 vessels and lose two carrier battle groups needed to project American power and influence.
China's spending hikes give it a defense budget larger than all other Asian nations combined. Heritage's Dean Cheng writes that those figures are "a sobering statistic when one considers that this includes the world's third largest economy (Japan) and North and South Korea, which remain locked in a Cold War-era standoff."
China in recent years has laid claims to Japan's Senkaku Islands and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. It has also conducted nine incursions into territory claimed by the Philippines. Beijing's goal is to secure the waters from Japan's home islands, along the Ryukyu chain, through Taiwan and to the Strait of Malacca, encompassing the South China Sea.
It plans to challenge U.S. power in the Western Pacific and to that end is building a blue-water navy including aircraft carriers. Its first carrier, the ex-Soviet Varyag, has been refurbished and is undergoing sea trials. It will give China's military the training and experience it needs in carrier operations.
It is deploying its carrier-killing mobile missile, the Dong Feng 21D. It is also flight-testing the J-20, its version of a fifth-generation stealth fighter expected to further tilt the balance of power in the Western Pacific.
China's plans include the deployment of two aircraft carriers of its own by 2015.
We would note that defense is a constitutional imperative, not an optional budget item. The question should be what do we need to defend ourselves and our interests, not simply what we can afford as the result of failed administration policies.
While we dawdle, China plans.
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While the world is occupied by the ongoing Iranian nuclear dance, another Arab Spring to Islamic supremecy and Obama's narcissic run to American czar, China is building up their military strength.
China Rushes To Fill America's Military Vacuum
Beijing announces another double-digit jump in military spending as the U.S. disarms and sacrifices its defense budget on the altar of entitlement spending. We have many duties; the Chinese have but one target.
China announced this week that its military budget this year would rise 11.2% on top of a 12.7% increase last year. This does not bode well as the U.S. defense budget and force levels decline as a result of cuts mandated by our failure to come to grips with runaway spending.
As China ramps up military spending, President Obama's budget contains $487 billion in cuts that, when added to the half-trillion or so in cuts mandated by the sequestration process, leaves us a military with a precipitately declining capability to meet its global commitments and responsibilities.
The Heritage Foundation has labeled as "factually incorrect" the assertion by Obama and others that U.S. defense cuts are only in the rate of growth. These are real cuts with real consequences, and the consolation that our budget is still larger than the next dozen or so countries combined ignores the fact that none of these states has our global commitments or interests.
China has only one interest — expanding its power beyond its coastlines into the Western Pacific and South China Sea and to be able to defeat any opposing forces within that theater of operations. The president has promised "budget reductions will not come at the expense of that critical region." Yet by crunching the numbers of projected U.S. force levels, it's hard to see how it could not be otherwise.
Heritage reckons the president's budget cuts alone would result in the loss of eight combat brigade teams in the Army, six Air Force tactical fighter squadrons and one training squadron, and 130 aircraft. Ground forces will be reduced by 73,000, or 13%, in the Army and by 20,000, or 10%, in the Marines.
As a result of the president's cuts, we will retire nine Navy ships and reduce the acquisition of new ships. President Reagan's 600-ship Navy will be reduced to less than we've had at any time since World War I. The Navy will shrink to 238 vessels and lose two carrier battle groups needed to project American power and influence.
China's spending hikes give it a defense budget larger than all other Asian nations combined. Heritage's Dean Cheng writes that those figures are "a sobering statistic when one considers that this includes the world's third largest economy (Japan) and North and South Korea, which remain locked in a Cold War-era standoff."
China in recent years has laid claims to Japan's Senkaku Islands and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. It has also conducted nine incursions into territory claimed by the Philippines. Beijing's goal is to secure the waters from Japan's home islands, along the Ryukyu chain, through Taiwan and to the Strait of Malacca, encompassing the South China Sea.
It plans to challenge U.S. power in the Western Pacific and to that end is building a blue-water navy including aircraft carriers. Its first carrier, the ex-Soviet Varyag, has been refurbished and is undergoing sea trials. It will give China's military the training and experience it needs in carrier operations.
It is deploying its carrier-killing mobile missile, the Dong Feng 21D. It is also flight-testing the J-20, its version of a fifth-generation stealth fighter expected to further tilt the balance of power in the Western Pacific.
China's plans include the deployment of two aircraft carriers of its own by 2015.
We would note that defense is a constitutional imperative, not an optional budget item. The question should be what do we need to defend ourselves and our interests, not simply what we can afford as the result of failed administration policies.
While we dawdle, China plans.
- U.s. Secdef Tells Chinese: Red Line>>further Reclamation And Militarization Of The Scarborough Shoal
GEOSTRAT-DIRECT As China continues to make island reclamations in the disputed rocks, shoals and islands in the region, China’s military options have increased dramatically. The PLA invariably installs military facilities on these reclaimed islands,...
- Well, Our Allies Have At Least Minimal Testosterone
Yesterday China warned Japan and the Philippines to AVOID the area near the disputed islands, China has been creeping into during the naval exercises they were conducting there. and……….. Japan, Philippines make second flight near disputed waters...
- Speaking Of Tangible Results Of Poor Economic Policy Affecting Our Policies
50% cut in strike capacity, in self defense of the fleet, in defense of other gulf assets (like Abqaiq …any damage there will drive prices up worldwide). And what about the readiness, and maintenance of what we have? Do you imagine that corners are...
- Secdef:us Forces-“ill-equipped To Challenge Chinese Forces” In Western Pacific
East Asia Intel:Below- the Chinese PLAN Navy’s Type 022A senior military commander disclosed last week that the U.S. military is quietly developing a new war strategy to counter China’s expanding military and its deployment of weapons systems designed...
- One Day After Warning About China's Improving Ballistic Missiles And Sub Capabilities....
U.S. aircraft carriers vulnerable to China's Russian-made Sizzler missiles By the way.... Iran is equipped with the Kilo subs that launch this missile East-Asia-Intel.com, March 20, 2008 China has purchased advanced anti-ship...