For a laugh, I decided to read through this pile of nonsense.
First off, realize it is an opinion piece. Therefore, it is not "news", it is the opinion of somebody, nothing else.
To begin with, the writer of this is primarily a writer of spy novels.
THen let's fast forward to a paragraph I already discussed:
Brose
explains a terrible truth about war with China: Our spy and communications satellites would immediately be disabled; our forward bases in Guam and Japan would be “inundated” by precise missiles; our aircraft carriers would have to sail away from China to escape attack; our F-35 fighter jets couldn’t reach their targets because the refueling tankers they need would be shot down.
I already discussed the fact that the Navy does not use "tankers". They use other fighters with "buddy tanks". And he also talked about China attacking Japan. Well my friends, that is no longer a war. That has instantly turned it into WWIII, as most of the world will jump in on the side of the US. And unprovoked attack upon Japan will surely bring in the UK and most of NATO, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Russia would likely remain neutral, but depending on the severity of a Chinese attack they might well join the US. They would have nothing to gain and everything to loose if China was to win such a conflict.
And launching ballistic missiles at Guam is one of the fastest ways to guarantee that such a conflict went nuclear right away. There is no way to tell if an ICBM approaching a US island was conventional or nuclear, and we might very well have a nuclear response even if the missile is conventional.
And exactly what missiles would they use against Guam? The only 2 IRBM missiles they had with that range was the DF-25 (cancelled in 1996), and the DF-26. They are primarily believed to be nuclear, but also capable of lofting a conventional payload of around 1 ton. They have 16 launchers, and around 100 missiles.
Yea, that is all that they have that can reach Guam. So unless they are launching nukes, that will hardly "inundate" Guam. Especially considering they will have to split those missiles between both Guam and Japan.
And really, take out all of our satellites? All of them? Even those that are not over their country? Considering a lot of birds the US uses are not even owned by the US that is only going to bring in more countries. Some of the major communication birds in that area of the world are actually owned by India. I do not think they will be happy with China shooting them down.
And the US also uses the Russian GPS system. So is China going to shoot those down also? That is almost guaranteed to cause Russia to jump in against China. But somehow they are magically going to shoot all of them down, leaving us "deaf, dumb and blind".
“Many U.S. forces would be rendered deaf, dumb and blind,” writes Brose. We have become so vulnerable, he argues because we’ve lost sight of the essential requirement of military power — the “kill chain” of his title — which means seeing threats and taking quick, decisive action to stop them.
Uhhh, radio will still work, or are they going to magically stop that also? Troposophere communication? Are all of our subs going to suddenly vanish? Our AWAC birds? Sources on the ground? Are they going to somehow completely knock out our terrestrial based radio relation systems?
Does this moron writing this and the original author actually think we only communicate through satellites? That none of the other 100+ years of communication systems are not also still used? That China can snap its fingers, all communication birds die, and we are reduced to using smoke signals?
China’s military isn’t focused on projecting power, as ours is, but instead on preventing U.S. domination. Rather than match our fleets of carriers and squadrons of jets around the world, Beijing developed precision weapons to prevent the United States from mobilizing these forces. An example is the
DF-21, the world’s first ballistic anti-ship missile, which Brose says is known as “
the carrier killer.”
Ahh, I was waiting for this. The DF-21D is the correct name, the DF-21 alone is a nuclear missile. The DF-21D is an untested weapon, which by their own admittance will require technologies that require satellites, and unknown technology that most believe does not exist (like precise over the horizon RADAR able to detect targets at over 2,000km with accuracy of less than 50 meters). It is a fantasy, and is a leap, considering we can also use Chinese GPS (which this system requires). So unless they shoot down their own GPS birds, we will still have GPS. If they shoot their own down, this system never works.
These are just some of the huge logic flaws in this piece of garbage. In almost every paragraph I am finding real gems. Like the next one.
Brose argues that it’s time for a radical rethink. Rather than building weapons for an outmoded strategy of projecting power, we should instead be arming ourselves in an effort to “deny China military dominance.” That means many cheap, autonomous weapons at the edge of the perimeter, rather than a few exquisite ones that are vulnerable to attack.
Ohhh, he is a drone lover. The only problem is, even Russia and Iran have proven their ability to interdict and neutralize our drones. Does anybody think that China does not have this capability also? Especially since he also claimed that China will knock out all our satellites.
A system of communication that our drones require! So here is an even bigger logic problem. He wants us to dump manned aircraft (which do not rely on satellites), and instead use drones. A technology that requires satellites, which he claims China will knock out immediately.
Does anybody else see the problem here?
No, this entire "editorial" is pure garbage. And the Post should be embarrassed for even publishing it, and reconsidering the employment of the monkey that wrote it. The logic flaws in it are huge, an almost complete misunderstanding of how any systems work, and the capabilities of China. This is why I tell everybody to think about something before they post it, and do not just suck up all they read with a straw. In this case, the OP appears to have sucked up sewer water.
