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The PRC is envisioning low-yield nuclear weapons that generate an electro-magnetic pulse designed to knock out the sensitive electronic equipment of US aircraft carriers, according to a declassified report: “For use against Taiwan, China could detonate at a much lower altitude (30 to 40 kilometers) … to confine the EMP effects to Taiwan and [...]  Writing in the WSJ, former SecNav Gordon England joins former CNO Vern Clark and former Marine Corps Commandant James L. Jones to channel their inner Alfred Thayer Mahan: First, international political realities and the internationally agreed-to sovereign rights of nations will increasingly limit the sustained involvement of American permanent land-based, heavy forces to the [...] The NYT has an article about a Chinese exhibit showcasing that country’s pursuit of drone-based air power: “This is the direction all aviation is going,” said Kenneth Anderson, a professor of law at American University who studies the legal questions surrounding the use of drones in warfare. “Everybody will wind up using this technology [...] China rises: As the Chinese government and the fast-modernizing naval branch of the People’s Liberation Army extend the nation’s maritime reach, uneasy neighbors are tracking Chinese vessels, including military and surveillance boats, fisheries law enforcement ships and fishing skiffs, and pushing back hard over anything deemed aggressive… The growing confidence of the Chinese Navy [...] China’s military establishment assures us that their development of the offensive capability that inherently adheres to an aircraft carrier is for purely defensive purposes. Regional neighbors have nothing to fear. Or else: Tensions in the potentially resource-rich South China Sea flared as Vietnam accused China of sabotaging a seismic survey boat while China warned [...] A general in China’s PLA gets around to admitting that… wait for it: China is building an aircraft carrier - Lt Gen Qi Jianguo, assistant chief of the general staff, told the Hong Kong Commercial Daily that even after the aircraft carrier was deployed, it would “definitely not sail to other countries’ territorial waters”. [...] In the WSJ, Gordon Crovitz discusses Google’s revelations on China’s “Blue Army”, the cyber-war companion to their Red Army: Google traced the attacks to the eastern Chinese city of Jinan, a base for the national-security arm of the People’s Liberation Army and the locale of last year’s hacking. By week’s end, security company Trend [...] The NYT is all a-gush about China’s increasing transparency and military prowess: The J-15 Flying Shark is China’s newest attack jet, a sinuous fighter with the folding wings, shortened tail cone and bulked-up landing gear it needs to serve on China’s first aircraft carrier, which is expected to start sea trials soon. It is [...] George Will writes that China’s economic growth is being underwritten in part by the US Navy’s beneficent guardianship of the international sea lanes of communication: Whatever China’s navy becomes, some thoughtful people will be surprised. What they do (at the Naval War College) is scholarship, not intelligence — they devour the flood of Chinese [...] In Egypt and Tunisia, governments have fallen. In Libya, the dictator has chosen to try and stay atop the tiger through force, slaughtering hundreds of protesters. In China, the government merely pulls the plug: Chinese authorities detained dozens of political activists after an anonymous online call for people to start a “Jasmine Revolution” in [...] |
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