Wonder why they call it the South China Sea. That almost suggests that body of water falls within China’s sphere of influence and it might be impossible to defeat China and dislodge it from the area. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.org:
The best starting point to begin reviewing Biden’s looming war in the South China Sea is through the one good eye of former Israeli Defence Chief Moshe Dayan.
The best starting point to begin reviewing Biden’s looming war in the South China Sea is through the one good eye of former Israeli Defence Chief Moshe Dayan. At a loose end in 1966, Dayan jumped at the chance to review the Vietnam war up close. Having first made stop overs to be briefed in France, England and America, he landed in Saigon where he met the Yankee top brass and came under VC fire when he went out on patrol with their grunts.
The crucial July 29, 1966 entry in his Vietnam Diary reads that his “impression is that they [Yanks] are…. currently fighting …. an American war against the entire world. To demonstrate their power and the steadfastness of their decisions to everyone (including England, France, the USSR), to make it known: when the Americans enter the fray – they are undefeatable”.
Dayan, whose accounts can also be read here, here and here, wrote in his 1966 memoir that “I wanted to see for myself, on the spot, what modern war was like, how the new weaponry was handled, how it shaped up in action, whether it could be adopted for our own use. Because “it had been “ten years since I had been in battle, ten years since I had been at the wrong end of an enemy tank, field gun, and attack plane—and at the right end of our own.”
ASEAN is an overlooked bloc in that region.
It really is CCP’s back yard…now.
Aircraft carrier verses hypersonic missile should be popcorn worthy.
Confucius says-a draft is coming for all comrades of the glorious new civility unity hive collective.
Si se puede!