06-09-2012, 21:07
|
#16
|
|
Area Commander
Broadsword2004 is offline
Join Date: May 2005
Location: NY
Posts: 2,615
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Peregrino
What's it going to cost us?
How will China react?
Will we still have sufficient conventional capability to counter-react if China takes it poorly?
|
I wonder if China is thinking the same thing about their ambitions. I read somewhere (it might have been from another thread on this forum) that the Chinese over-estimated their own strength and didn't count on the U.S. responding in the way it has to their wanting to assert themselves as the power in that region.
|
|
|
|
|
06-09-2012, 21:59
|
#17
|
|
Guerrilla Chief
Sarski is offline
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mckinney, TX
Posts: 609
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard
The Phillippines - the nearly forgotten campaign in the GWOT.
Its proximity to China, Vietnam, and Malaysia via the South China Sea, and access to the Moluccan Straits and IO makes it an important strategic location.
...
Richard 
|
My guess, sir, is that those results/events are not as highly publicized compared to other AOs, however, I am sure the hunting is still good.
__________________
"Red Crown, this is Lone Wolf 41, over..."
Last edited by Sarski; 06-09-2012 at 22:01.
|
|
|
|
|
06-10-2012, 06:28
|
#18
|
|
Quiet Professional (RIP)
greenberetTFS is offline
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Carriere,Ms.
Posts: 6,923
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZonieDiver
|
Zonie
Acquisition is part of the government's military modernization plan that aims to purchase both refurbished and new aircraft, ships........... 
I didn't know we bought(  )refurbished planes,ship,etc,from who?........ 
Big Teddy
__________________
I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
|
|
|
|
|
06-10-2012, 06:42
|
#19
|
|
Quiet Professional
Richard is offline
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
Posts: 13,423
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by greenberetTFS
I didn't know we bought ( ) refurbished planes, ship, etc, from who?........ |
Teddy,
They''re talking about the RPI's armed forces, not the DOD.
Richard
__________________
"By and by there was a little stir on the staircase and in the passageway, and in lounged a tall, loose-jointed figure, of an exaggerated Yankee port and demeanor, whom (as being about the homeliest man I ever saw, yet by no means repulsive or disagreeable) it was impossible not to recognize Uncle Abe."
- A Peaceable Man (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Atlantic Monthly, July 1862.
|
|
|
|
 |
Another People's War? |
 |
|
06-10-2012, 21:56
|
#20
|
|
Asset
Situ Shanren is offline
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Utah
Posts: 2
|
Another People's War?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Peregrino
What's it going to cost us?
How will China react?
Will we still have sufficient conventional capability to counter-react if China takes it poorly?
|
Although US-Chinese relations are based primarily around multi-lateral economic security, I wouldn't put it past the PRC to make a power play if they feel threatened.
Maybe something like what Russia did with Georgia when they saw we were bogged down elsewhere? They could feel NATO encircling them so they made a play to show those countries in their sphere of influence that the US couldn't defend all of them.
There's a fairly prolific group of older officials who have been trying to push pro-Mao policies recently. And one of his favorites was "The People's War" strategy--throw millions of Chinese soldiers out there and bleed the enemy dry. Sort of the mindset of, "no matter how many of us you kill, we've got more where they came from." It's the strategy they used during the Korean War, their "liberation" of Tibet in the early '50s, and it's the strategy they were posturing to use with Vietnam.
Things are certain to get more tense with our shifting of Naval forces to PACOM, opening bases in the Phillipines will enliven things even more.
__________________
"The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath, The nations in their harness Go up against our path: Ere yet we loose the legions— Ere yet we draw the blade, Jehovah of the Thunders, Lord God of Battles, aid!"-Rudyard Kipling
Last edited by Situ Shanren; 06-10-2012 at 22:29.
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 23:33.
|
|
|
