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PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB):China is America’s military equal now and in any future fight. The general in charge of keeping the U.S. Marine Corps sustained in a fight dismisses the notion that China poses a “near-peer” threat to the U.S. It is a full military peer, and any fight with China will make the currently paused conflict with Iran pale by comparison.
“There is no threat that looms larger than the People’s Republic of China,” Lt. General Stephen Sklenka said. “Don’t listen to this garbage about them being a near peer. They’re a peer because they rival us in nearly every single measure of national influence.”
As the “lead strategist” and former Deputy Commander of INDOPACOM, Sklenka said he “got to be pretty familiar with how General Secretary Xi Jinping was thinking and what his intentions are.”
Epic Fury also offers some sobering lessons, Sklenka noted. While U.S. is able to pour forces into theater via uncontested skies and largely uncontested seas, Iran was still able to inflict a great deal of pain on America and its allies during the fighting. And, it still is, economically through an ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz. A fight with China would be far worse, Sklenka cautioned.
“We’re about two months into combat operations with Epic Fury. We’ve got service members who have tragically been wounded and killed by Iran. They’ve launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles at our bases and our allies throughout the region … reinforcing … that the bases that we have, they’re no longer administrative garrison sanctuaries. We really need to start looking at our bases as warfighting formations…
Faced with the rapidly growing China threat, the U.S. has to start hardening its bases now, not just overseas, but at home in U.S. too. Read more at TWZ.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of the top defense news of the last couple of days from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.
Aligning U.S. and Canadian defense industrial bases. Both neighbors are racing to rebuild their defense industrial bases, recognizing that future conflicts will be won by the ability to produce weapons at scale. But they cannot succeed alone — and importantly, they do not need to start from scratch.
Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for state and federal office, taught political science, wrote for the editorial board of a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad. To read more go to: paulcrespo.com.
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“Intensions” are irrelevant. Capabilities ae what matter. And China is very capable.