by FullMoon » Mon May 20, 2024 10:32 am
guest 111 wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 10:31 pm
FullMoon wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 1:17 pm
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/us- ... indopacom/
If Beijing wants to execute a first strike and seize Taiwan, the ideal time might be right now, when INDOPACOM has no Standing Combined Joint Task Force (SCJTF) trained, poised, and ready to immediately employ the combat power of its Component Commands to defeat the PLA’s effort. Should this occur, INDOPACOM chief Adm. Samuel Paparo would have to form an ad hoc operational CJTF that would take weeks to assemble and prepare for combat.
In other words, INDOPACOM has no means of orchestrating a synchronized Joint All Domain campaign to absorb the blow, then launch a devastating counter-offensive operation against the PLA — which has to be so effective it keeps China from considering the nuclear option. We stand postured to lose our first large-scale conventional battle against the PLA.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Paparo just took over at the command this month, and with a new commander should come a new way of doing business. Specifically, Paparo should look to create a permanent SCJTF, specifically postured for a China scenario.
I wonder what our military expert members have to say about this. Seems like a reasonable argument.
There's only one problem: the Chinese communist military is not very good. It lacks operational experience and its soldiers are cowards. The officer corps is corrupt and the PLA is more interested in running their own factories and enjoying the good life with young factory girls then fighting in ww3 and dying in a nuclear exchange. You really have no idea how banged up the PLA really is.
We know that the PLA is representative of the CCP.
Inept, corrupt and rotten to the core. There's absolutely nothing new and it's been like this for a long time.
Let's look at recent diplomacy to gain some understanding about what's going on with those who will make the decisions regardless of the facts on the ground. Compare and contrast the Blinken and Putin visits in the Northern Capital (BJ). Huangdi rolled out the red carpet and showed enough love and affection that Pukin looked embarrassed whilst the guitar boy was snubbed, talked down to and everyone showed blatant adversarial motivation. And that's just surface and obvious stuff for cameras.
CCP has been at low level warfare since it's inception and if you'd like to know their current tactics, perhaps looking at how that regtag group of miscreants could defeat a much better military would show what they're doing now.
Is your water supply dependent on electricity from a grid? Do you depend on food delivery by vehicle? They've go a way to disrupt us domestically and destroy our will to fight. Asymmetrical warfare IS their strength and how they'll fight. Look for online trolls spreading misinformation from their legions of cyber warriors. Asymmetrical warfare is the term.
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https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/us-postured-to-lose-without-a-standing-combined-joint-task-force-in-indopacom/
[quote]If Beijing wants to execute a first strike and seize Taiwan, the ideal time might be right now, when INDOPACOM has no Standing Combined Joint Task Force (SCJTF) trained, poised, and ready to immediately employ the combat power of its Component Commands to defeat the PLA’s effort. Should this occur, INDOPACOM chief Adm. Samuel Paparo would have to form an ad hoc operational CJTF that would take weeks to assemble and prepare for combat.
In other words, INDOPACOM has no means of orchestrating a synchronized Joint All Domain campaign to absorb the blow, then launch a devastating counter-offensive operation against the PLA — [b][u]which has to be so effective it keeps China from considering the nuclear option[/u][/b]. We stand postured to lose our first large-scale conventional battle against the PLA.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Paparo just took over at the command this month, and with a new commander should come a new way of doing business. Specifically, Paparo should look to create a permanent SCJTF, specifically postured for a China scenario.[/quote]
I wonder what our military expert members have to say about this. Seems like a reasonable argument.
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There's only one problem: the Chinese communist military is not very good. It lacks operational experience and its soldiers are cowards. The officer corps is corrupt and the PLA is more interested in running their own factories and enjoying the good life with young factory girls then fighting in ww3 and dying in a nuclear exchange. You really have no idea how banged up the PLA really is.
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We know that the PLA is representative of the CCP.
Inept, corrupt and rotten to the core. There's absolutely nothing new and it's been like this for a long time.
Let's look at recent diplomacy to gain some understanding about what's going on with those who will make the decisions regardless of the facts on the ground. Compare and contrast the Blinken and Putin visits in the Northern Capital (BJ). Huangdi rolled out the red carpet and showed enough love and affection that Pukin looked embarrassed whilst the guitar boy was snubbed, talked down to and everyone showed blatant adversarial motivation. And that's just surface and obvious stuff for cameras.
CCP has been at low level warfare since it's inception and if you'd like to know their current tactics, perhaps looking at how that regtag group of miscreants could defeat a much better military would show what they're doing now.
Is your water supply dependent on electricity from a grid? Do you depend on food delivery by vehicle? They've go a way to disrupt us domestically and destroy our will to fight. Asymmetrical warfare IS their strength and how they'll fight. Look for online trolls spreading misinformation from their legions of cyber warriors. Asymmetrical warfare is the term.