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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: Mad Max on August 07, 2017, 09:35:59 am
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by Zachary Keck
While U.S. defense strategists have been focused on China’s so-called “carrier-killer” ballistic missile, as well as Beijing’s aircraft carriers, a new report suggests China’s greatest threat to the United States may be something less eye-catching.
“The greatest military threat to U.S. vital interests in Asia may be one that has received somewhat less attention: the growing capability of China’s missile forces to threaten U.S. bases in the region,” write Thomas Shugart and Javier Gonzalez in a report released last month by the Center for a New American Security.
Gonzalez and Shugart are both commanders in the Navy, and the latter currently serves as a military fellow at CNAS. In the report, they argue that China could use its missile forces to conduct a surprise preemptive strike against U.S. military bases in the region to prevent U.S. intervention in a conflict over Taiwan or the Senkaku Islands.
“Driven partly by distinct first-mover advantages associated with the employment of modern long range precision weaponry, such a preemptive strike appears consistent with available information about China’s missile force doctrine and military strategy,” they write.
Chinese leaders began building up these capabilities after being shocked by America’s overwhelming victory over Saddam Hussein’s forces in the First Gulf War. This led Beijing to transform its Second Artillery Corps from a primarily nuclear force into one consisting of nuclear and precision conventional missiles — both ballistic and cruise. This strategy sought to capitalize on China’s asymmetric advantages such as geography and the low cost of producing missiles.
http://warisboring.com/china-can-blast-almost-every-u-s-warship-docked-in-japan-with-ballistic-missiles/
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by Zachary Keck
While U.S. defense strategists have been focused on China’s so-called “carrier-killer” ballistic missile, as well as Beijing’s aircraft carriers, a new report suggests China’s greatest threat to the United States may be something less eye-catching.
“The greatest military threat to U.S. vital interests in Asia may be one that has received somewhat less attention: the growing capability of China’s missile forces to threaten U.S. bases in the region,” write Thomas Shugart and Javier Gonzalez in a report released last month by the Center for a New American Security.
Gonzalez and Shugart are both commanders in the Navy, and the latter currently serves as a military fellow at CNAS. In the report, they argue that China could use its missile forces to conduct a surprise preemptive strike against U.S. military bases in the region to prevent U.S. intervention in a conflict over Taiwan or the Senkaku Islands.
“Driven partly by distinct first-mover advantages associated with the employment of modern long range precision weaponry, such a preemptive strike appears consistent with available information about China’s missile force doctrine and military strategy,” they write.
Chinese leaders began building up these capabilities after being shocked by America’s overwhelming victory over Saddam Hussein’s forces in the First Gulf War. This led Beijing to transform its Second Artillery Corps from a primarily nuclear force into one consisting of nuclear and precision conventional missiles — both ballistic and cruise. This strategy sought to capitalize on China’s asymmetric advantages such as geography and the low cost of producing missiles.
http://warisboring.com/china-can-blast-almost-every-u-s-warship-docked-in-japan-with-ballistic-missiles/
Here is the copy of the report:
https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/first-strike-chinas-missile-threat-to-u-s-bases-to-asia
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It would end very badly for China. And in a much shorter time than when the Japanese tried it. It is past time to start arming Japan.
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It would end very badly for China. And in a much shorter time than when the Japanese tried it. It is past time to start arming Japan.
I do agree with you but China has been developing a ABM system in the last several years on the HQ-9, KS series, and HQ-16.New missiles, the HQ-19, HQ-26, and HQ-29, are being built.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/hq-19.htm
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I do agree with you but China has been developing a ABM system in the last several years on the HQ-9, KS series, and HQ-16.New missiles, the HQ-19, HQ-26, and HQ-29, are being built.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/hq-19.htm
A good thing is that they lack the experience and technology with their ABM's. The United States should start arming Japan with THAAD missile defense systems like we are doing with South Korea. They also should be given the option of the SM-3 land based missile.
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A good thing is that they lack the experience and technology with their ABM's. The United States should start arming Japan with THAAD missile defense systems like we are doing with South Korea. They also should be given the option of the SM-3 land based missile.
I believe that Raytheon has given the SM-3 land based missile option to Japan