Navy Official: China Training for ‘Short Sharp War’ with Japan

U.S. Naval Institute ^ | February 18, 2014 | By USNI News Editor

[Brad from Tennessee]

China has long trained for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan during military exercises but has expanded its training to include a similar attack on Japanese holdings in the East China Sea, according the chief of intelligence of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLEET).

As part of China’s Mission Action 2013 exercise — a massive exercise between the all branches of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — the military trained for taking the Senkaku Islands, said Capt. James Fannell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information operations for PACFLEET.

“We witnessed the massive amphibious and cross military region enterprise — Mission Action 2013,” Fannell said at the West 2014 conference on Feb. 13 in San Diego, Calif. “[We] concluded that the PLA has been given the new task to be able to conduct a short sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China Sea following with what can only be expected a seizure of the Senkakus or even a southern Ryukyu [islands] — as some of their academics say.”

In the last year, China has increased the military activity has additionally increased provocative military actions in the South China Sea around the so-called Nine Dash Line — China’s expansive claim into the region in conflict with several other international claims. . .

[Jack Hammer]

Unlike some, I’ve actually stayed in China and spent time with the Chinese. The phrase “Chinese Fire Drill” remains just as applicable today as ever.

[Candor7]

Chinese Fire Drill is a hiatus that lasts for only a very short time. It is very much similar to the US fire drill you read about involving Pearl Harbor. Its good to rememebr it, especially now that our country is so weakened by the Obama surrender-coercive utopians.

[Jack Hammer]

Care to elaborate? I have absolutely NO idea what you’re talking about.

[Candor7]

I have absolutely NO idea what you’re talking about.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Talking about History. We have had our own Chinese Fire Drills.Pearl Harbour was one of them.The question simply is, will we have another at the hands of China? We should be applying your logic about the Chinese to ourselves as well as to China, given the a$$hat we have for president.

Chinese Nationalism is on the rise. US strength to counter it is so low that there is nothing Obama could or would do should China invade Taiwan AND the Ryu Kyu Islands next week. The Japanese know this with a great deal of certainty and aplomb.And China is getting ready, as the thread article warns.We had the same attitude that you do about China towards the Japanese in 1941, and so did the Russians towards Japan in the Russo-Japanese war (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) , when the Russians had their a$$es handed to them by the Japanese.

One other thing, those Chinese Fire Drillers of yours control the Panama Canal, its under a Red Army management company thanks to William Jeffeson Clinton. A couple of well placed bombs would close it for good.

No, it will not pay NOW to under estimate the Chinese military at all. They need to be taken very seriously.
And the Japanese are doing just that, as they should.

[Jack Hammer]

Okay, I get it now. Thanks for the clarification.

I might mention, though, that I don’t consider Pearl Harbor to have been in any way a “Chinese Fire Drill.”

But I see where you’re going with this.

[sushiman]

I feel the same way .