US & China: Cold War or Cold Peace?
Foreign Policy Essay Says China's surveillance and sky balloons hovering over top US strategic nuclear facilities were “errant”---not designed to surveil the USA
PETER HUESSY - WARRIOR SENIOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ANALYSTMAY 17, 2024
By Peter Huessy, Senior Warrior Nuclear Weapons Analyst

Foreign Policy is a journal of international affairs that likes to take issue with what it sees as conventional wisdom. This month they publish an essay taking issue with the growing concern in the United States---deemed not justified---over the direction of the Chinese government under the leadership of Xi Jinping. Michael Hirsch a columnist for the Journal worries Washington is unnecessarily headed toward a cold war with China rather than an alternative cold peace.

Hirsch admits of Chinese aggression against the United States but dismisses it as any sign China wants to dominate the competition between the two nations, let alone seek hegemonic primacy. As evidence he advises Xi apparently “pleaded” with US industrial leaders to make investments in China (now declining for the first time in decades), on top of a near $700 billion in annual trade, and that these are indicators China is totally accepting of the current international economic system (which many believe China has been trying to undermine and destroy.)

What Hirsch dismisses is the long ago adopted unrestricted warfare strategy of the CCP against the United States. Apparently, the reports of its adoption were fables.

Hirch tells us the surveillance and sky balloons hovering over top US strategic nuclear facilities were “errant”---not designed to surveil the USA and just coincidentally crossing the entire United States and “spying” on our most sensitive military bases.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/

I'll bet, though, the US is supposed to come running to bail their sorry *sses out when they start getting overrun by some Muslim militia.

On the May 19, 2024 "Meet The Press" during a contentious interview with Senator Marco Rubio, host Kristin Welker claimed NBC News did cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. Yeah, they covered it by discounting it as the result of RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION as you can see here. So when will Welker and NBC News issue a CORRECTION by admitting that the Hunter Biden Laptop story was true and NOT the result of Russian Disinformation? And while they are at it. will Andrea Mitchell also correct her highly laughable claim in 2020 that Joe Biden was some sort of heroic fighter against corruption in Ukraine?

https://rumble.com/embed/v4tvj1h/?pub=7wvc3

Lessons from D-Day
The Importance of Combined and Joint Operations

 
Col. Gregory Fontenot, U.S. Army, Retired
 
Soldiers from Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) disembark from an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) and wade onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of 6 June 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Infantry Division when landing. During the initial landing, two-thirds of Company E, 16th Infantry, became casualties. (Photo courtesy of National Archives)

The eightieth anniversary of the Allies’ World War II invasion of France will be memorialized and celebrated in the United States and in Normandy. However, this article looks beyond D-Day to examine joint and combined operations in the context of a deliberate attack characterized both by time to prepare and good intelligence. All the means of intelligence gathering we have today existed then. We think of satellite imagery and cyber as new, but their predecessors were photo imagery from manned aircraft and signals intelligence. Technology has changed, but the basic intelligence means remain the same. The context also includes the estimates made by both Allies and the Germans. Future conflicts will be combined and joint and will assuredly include elements of irregular warfare. All these characteristics pervaded planning and operations for the invasion of France in 1944.

The material basis of war since 1945 in communications, intelligence gathering, air support, and fires has changed to the extent that an opposed landing on the scale and complexity of Normandy can no longer be conducted against a capable enemy. On the other hand, long-term strategic and operational planning and preparation—to include organization, intelligence gathering, force structure, and command and control—in the context of combined and joint warfare will continue to be required more or less as they were in June 1944. The scale of operations may be smaller, but the scope and complexity are arguably greater.

Coalition Strategic Planning
The broad coalition known as the United Nations began with discussions between the United Kingdom and the United States. In Origins of the Grand Alliance: Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor, William T. Johnsen shows this collaboration began haltingly. Not until January 1941, after the introduction of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “lend lease” legislation, did staff talks begin that eventually cemented “the Grand Alliance.” From the British point of view, this was as much as two years later than they would have preferred.1

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/May-June-2024/MJ-24-Fontenot/