Posted on 01/23/2014 10:53:01 AM PST by raptor22
Power Shift: Despite the White House's much-lauded pivot to the Pacific, the Navy's Pacific commander warns that an increasingly hostile and assertive China threatens U.S. air and sea superiority in the region.
If jaws didn't drop, they should have last week when Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, chief of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), said: "Our historic dominance that most of us in this room have enjoyed is diminishing, no question."
U.S. naval and air superiority, particularly in the Pacific, has been taken for granted. But as Obama administration budget cuts and the effects of sequestration take their toll, our position is being severely challenged by a Chinese military benefiting from years of double-digit spending increases and a commitment from Beijing to push the U.S. out of the area.
Locklear noted the regional power shift at the annual Surface Navy Association conference in Virginia.
"We need to think about all scenarios, not just the ones we've been dealing with over the last several years, where we've enjoyed basic air superiority and basic sea superiority," he said. "There are places in the world where in this century we won't have them."
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Dear leader does not approve. Thou shall be muzzled.
OBAMALATERAL DISARMAMENT PING
By design, I’m certain.
Thanks Democrats!
Verily, U shalt be audited as well.
Wonder how long it takes for this Admiral to get the heave-ho out of the Navy?
Bets?
Soon to be ex-admiral for doing what dims can’t tolerate———speaking the truth.
Yep. Liberals believe it’s wrong for the U.S. to be better than anyone else.
Republicans too. The majority in the House is conservative, so-called.
I’m betting retirement papers are in
hrclinton + 6yrs walmart bod + Clinton admin push for china permanent trade status == manufacturing push to china
walmart goods produced in china == pipeline of US wealth leaving the country, never to return
0bama push to increase welfare == increased fed spending == inevitable calls to reduce spending, which politicians will only take from money piles that do not effect voters directly... which means military
0bama admin is also doing everything it can to funnel miltech to the chicoms.
meanwhile, the pols in fedgov do nothing... which just grease the skids ... allowing it to continue faster
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There must be some mistake. The Washington politicians are saying our biggest threat is Iran and war is the answer.
0Bambi also gave up the moon, the highest ground.
Oh yeah, the faggot in the White Hut banged Uncle Sam up the...butt good.
This is the end result of Free Trade and Most Favored Nation status with an aggressive, hostile, and massive foreign power.
Why is anyone surprised?
Of course, this unilateral surrender of supremacy by the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut has ALWAYS been by design, going back to the days of accusations around 1949 or so, “Who lost China?”. It is only because China has not yet developed the engineering expertise to launch a fleet of nuclear-fueled battleships, submarines, air craft carriers, and cruisers, that they have not yet surpassed the residual naval power of that nation formerly known as “The United States of America”.
There was once a near-monolithic Communist bloc of nations, the Russian-Chinese alliance. That fell apart because the Chinese believed the Russians were not sufficiently dedicated to International Socialism.
You see which country did the necessary internal reforms, and which once went through a severe collapse. Even so, they are still de facto allies.
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Oh, it returns all right . . . with the purchase of Treasury bonds that we issue because our politicians (of both parties) can't figure out a way to balance the budget.
Absolutely, positively 100% for certain. The Obungler wants to surrender to our enemies, because he is one in spirit with them.
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