As is the feeling,
So is the result.
Is this war with CCP/China just starting or has it been underway for some time? I would say it has been underway for some time. How else to view the push east into the South and East China Seas and the belt and road netting strategy?
USA are already at war with CCP/China. They started it. Why not now pinch off the salients already pushed out to the east? Starve out the garrisons. Otherwise, I would counsel a strategy of avoiding the obvious — blow the dam, assault the garrisons on island salients, attack from India, Siberia, and Korea — in favor of absorbing blows, pivoting, rolling with the punches, and then pinching off the bulges at their roots. Hand them a string of tactical defeats to rattle their confidence, confuse their ideological certainty, and disintegrate their will to aggress.
Meanwhile, triangulate them between an American-Indian-Russian strategic alliance tasked with ensuring CCP/China is properly brought up (bien élevé). Military occupation will be essential. In that aspect of the war, bear in mind that land war in CCP/China is now a rational problem set.
War must be fought to unconditional surrender of one combatant to the other. In war there is no substitute for victory. Military occupation of a defeated country is essential up until the point that the country’s former will for aggression is extirpated and their vigorous and forceful but peaceful participation in the affairs of nations is guaranteed.
The mistakes of Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq must not be recapitulated, regardless those being heydays for certain private enterprises. Do not get into wars. But if forced to do it, win the war — conclusively, militarily, as quickly as possible, so there is no doubt in anyone’s mind about that — occupy and govern the aggressor’s country, and stay there until her citizens and leaders behave normally as a reasonable nation.
In no way allow the US State Department or Intelligence Community to control or otherwise warp an occupied nation’s military, governance, industrial/agricultural base, system of education, or communications infrastructure.
Gordon G. Chang:
China: What We Must Do,
What We Must Not Do
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Taiwan is a threat when in CCP/China’s rear but not when only in their front. CCP/China has nothing to be gained strategically or, more importantly, politically to compensate for losses attendant upon taking Taiwan at this time, when Taiwan is in their front only.
CCP/China’s need at this point is a political victory against USA, to show the world’s nations that they dare not challenge CCP/China in any way, whatsoever. This can be done only by taking and holding US property in CCP/China’s east.
Logistics, morale, and economics should be CCP/China’s concern, but they are not. Ideology is: CCP/China über alles. A hyper-dangerous posture because it is colossally stupid. CCP/China’s logistical situation cannot bear the weight their ideologically-driven ambitions.
NOTE: It is daydreaming to think this war of USA with CCP/China is just starting or about to start, just now a threat to US sovereign national freedom. It is years old and ongoing. The trade deal, which stops CCP/China’s looting of America and Americans, was a decision point for CCP/China. They have to demonstrate to the nations that no one obstructs CCP/China, and that can be done convincingly only in military terms. Prepare for war.
And if one wants an historical likeness to CCP/China’s position and desires today, it is Adolf Hitler’s contemplations regarding Operation Barbarossa. CCP/China is going into the blue, into the Pacific, to seize US assets there. Ideology demands it.
Fred Ohr to David R. Graham
For the time being, I think they stop at Hong Kong. That is a big thumb in the eye to the West and may suffice to meet their internal political needs for now. But, I enjoyed your input.
David R. Graham to Fred Ohr
Thanks, I enjoyed your comment.
I would suggest that a Hong Kong-related thumb in the eye of the West is not a strategic message that would help CCP’s internal or external viability. Meaning, taking that geography/society does not convincingly make the point they need to make to impress on other nations: that one does not oppose the CCP. Only a military defeat or sustained embarrassment of the USA would do that, by way of annexing US influence or property in the Western Pacific, specifically Palau and Guam, to begin with.
US and other nations’ sub fleets are going to have plenty of adventure severing comms of CCP/Chinese garrisons on ocean salients. Direct assault on those posts is unnecessary and therefore unwise. They can be starved out.
Praise and blame appear to be contradictory to each other, but they are not! That which takes you to a respectable position will also bring you down! As you are being praised, blame is growing along. When we dig a well, a heap of mud will also grow alongside. The deeper we go into the well, the higher will the accumulated mound be. We think that the hole, which corresponds to the deep well, is blame while the heap corresponds to praise. But when we put the heap of mud into the well, it gets closed. The mud from the well and the mud in the heap are the same. Once we realise that this is so, we will not be afraid of criticism or blame. We will develop an equal-minded attitude for praise and blame. Some people will look at the depth of the well while others look at the height of the mound. The correct attitude will be to look at both with the same mind. Only then will one be able to progress along the sacred path.
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