Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025: 'I hope I am wrong'

[BiscuitsandGravy]

His comment about "fire a clip into a 7-meter target"... "aim for the head"... was quite telling IMO.

 

[Cavman]

Higher ups love war. They can command from the safety of home, and visit just 1 day a month to get their pay tax free for the month.

 

[xwing]

I really doubt it. Even though Xi would certainly like to take over Taiwan, I would suspect that the situation in the Ukraine would give him pause to fight an unpopular war against the rest of the world. In addition, both China and the U.S. are nuclear powers. MAD still applies.

Instead, China will continue to exert political, economic & limited military pressure on Taiwan. They will continue to be more aggressive in their military stance, but not actually attack.

 

[HoughMade]

A president with stones would say exactly what Tom Clancy has President Ryan say in "Executive Orders".



By my count, 14 presidents have had the opportunity, none have.

 

[Ingomike]

Uniting the country in war will be the salve for the raging depression we are heading to…

 

[Brad69]

Higher ups love war. They can command from the safety of home, and visit just 1 day a month to get their pay tax free for the month.

True we had a Brigadier General that visited Afghanistan every month.

 

[Cavman]

True we had a Brigadier General that visited Afghanistan every month.

Gotta make that tax free pay lol.

 

[BE Mike]

One of the last warrior generals:

Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.​

 

[DadSmith]

My niece who is an E7 active duty Air Force told me that this information was supposed to be classified and someone leaked it.

 

[flatlander]

Anybody else see the report about the Chinese spy balloon floating over the U.S. ? Refused to shoot his friends spy platform down!

 

[yotehunt]

Tax free and combat haz pay is now pro-rated. Sleep tight.

 

[bwframe]

Anybody else see the report about the Chinese spy balloon floating over the U.S. ? Refused to shoot his friends spy platform down!

I was doing really good at not having to even open this thread. Then...

 

[DadSmith]

Anybody else see the report about the Chinese spy balloon floating over the U.S. ? Refused to shoot his friends spy platform down!

Pentagon says it is monitoring Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over US

Officials say balloon has been watched for a few days but decided not to shoot it down for safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

 

[KellyinAvon]

So we have a "war with China in 25" thread and a Chinese Spy Balloon thread. Cross-posting is going to happen since the Chi-Coms are in both.

Pentagon Tracking Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Over the US

Not the first time the U.S. has been flown over and attacked by balloon. Japan launched 9,000 sophisticated balloon bombs toward the U.S.. 900 landed, and resulted in the death of six people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb

www.indianagunowners.com

 

[KellyinAvon]

My niece who is an E7 active duty Air Force told me that this information was supposed to be classified and someone leaked it.

So your niece is a Master Sergeant

The purpose of a security clearance is to make it so you can't talk about what you just saw on TV.

 

[HoughMade]

So your niece is a Master Sergeant

The purpose of a security clearance is to make it so you can't talk about what you just saw on TV.

My Dad's work in the Army in the '50s and 60's and his civilian job thereafter dealt with missile guidance systems including the Nike program. In the 2000s, a series of articles were published in the local press in NWI and Chicagoland about the old Nike defense ring around Chicago. I asked my Dad about it then and the only thing he ever said: "that was classified and no one has ever told me I can talk about it, so I won't." This, even though it was all over the news including the part about some of the missiles having nuclear warheads for air burst.