Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Navy Official: China Training for ‘Short Sharp War’ with Japan

He then detailed a series of what he called aggressive actions taken by China against its neighbors over the past year. Some of those actions, including combat drills in the south Philippine Sea were described as China’s “protection of maritime rights.” “By the way, protection of maritime rights is a Chinese euphemism for coerce seizure of coastal rights of China’s neighbors,” Fannell said.

5 comments:

California Midwesterner said...

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions."
-Robert Wilson Lynd, as quoted in a David Weber book, The Short Victorious War

Anonymous said...

"No plan survives first contact."

Anonymous said...

Thank Truman for leaving us in this predicament.. we should have nuked the commie bastards in peking and moscow when we had the chance.. too many commies in office then and worse now.

Yank lll

Anonymous said...

How does he know it 's all about Japan? Could it be because almost our entire carrier force is parked back home?

Crotalus said...

You're no doubt right, CM. In our War for Independence, the Brits thought we would buckle in a few weeks, but we were so intransigent that they finally gave up.