The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China (Because America might lose.)

 Thanks to J Villan for the link!

Note.  I smell shenanigans in this article.  Why?  Because several Senators are pushing hard (as well as the Pentagon) for a defense budget plus up even though they cut domestic programs.  Additionally they have emptied our stockpile of munitions and it will take YEARS to rebuild them.  So what do you do when you've slammed your own citizens, basically propped up a foreign govt and want to get into a fight with the Chinese?  You make them out to be a boogey-man (yes I am aware that I've said in the past that we should have killed them in the crib...but that was then, this is now...even 4 years ago we would have won more easily not so much now) that has to be stomped at all costs.  You even throw in that it'll change our way of life.  FULL FEAR TACTICS!  I tell people when we get into a dust up that the reason why they lost (I am talking shit) is because I was fighting for right.  That's with crack heads and street trash.  But who is fighting for right when China sees this as reunifying a breakaway province?  If Texas went its own way would we fight for it?  Not saying they're right but YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND YOUR ENEMY'S MOTIVATION!

via Politico

war began in the early morning hours with a massive bombardment — China’s version of “shock and awe.” Chinese planes and rockets swiftly destroyed most of Taiwan’s navy and air force as the People’s Liberation army and navy mounted a massive amphibious assault across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait. Having taken seriously President Joe Biden’s pledge to defend the island, Beijing also struck pre-emptively at U.S. and allied air bases and ships in the Indo-Pacific. The U.S. managed to even the odds for a time by deploying more sophisticated submarines as well as B-21 and B-2 stealth bombers to get inside China’s air defense zones, but Washington ran out of key munitions in a matter of days and saw its network access severed. The United States and its main ally, Japan, lost thousands of servicemembers, dozens of ships, and hundreds of aircraft. Taiwan’s economy was devastated. And as a protracted siege ensued, the U.S. was much slower to rebuild, taking years to replace ships as it reckoned with how shriveled its industrial base had become compared to China’s.

The Chinese “just ran rings around us,” said former Joint Chiefs Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten in one after-action report. “They knew exactly what we were going to do before we did it.”

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FD2030 or not.  US Marines will be the side show to surface action groups, air expeditionary wings and carrier air wings along with subs for this fight.