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Air Force maverick who warned of war with China sticks to his guns
« on: July 31, 2023, 01:06:00 pm »
Air Force maverick who warned of war with China sticks to his guns
Gen. Michael A. Minihan, lauded by hawks in Congress, has disturbed some in the Pentagon with his fiery prognostications of a looming conflict

By Dan Lamothe
July 29, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

 
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — He’s been called a “big teddy bear,” a gruff “football coach” and a “cowboy” who needs to be put out to pasture. But one thing Gen. Michael A. Minihan is not: shy.

Here, where the suburbs of St. Louis meet the cornfields of southern Illinois, resides the four-star commander who, in uncommonly confrontational language for such a senior military officer, has ordered the 110,000 troops under his command to prepare for war.

With China.

Two years from now, maybe.

“I hope I am wrong,” he informed them in a January memo that went viral after one of its recipients leaked the document online. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/29/michael-minihan-china-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_homepage
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Re: Air Force maverick who warned of war with China sticks to his guns
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2023, 01:07:50 pm »
China had better watch out!  They've never faced an enemy so steeped in Critical Race Theory AND proper pronoun usage. :whistle:
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Re: Air Force maverick who warned of war with China sticks to his guns
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2023, 03:11:30 pm »
Is there a MOS for hurling epithets?

If a Republican is elected POTUS in '24, that will be the 'go signal' because that will be the low point for our readiness with 12 of the last 16 years under democrats.
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