war with china? a different approach?

[Graeme Glass]

Whats this got to do with python?


On Jan 19, 9:34 pm, therm... at india.com wrote:
> Coz we have fools in the govt, the downfall of the US has only been
> accelerated !!
> The are morons who staged 9/11 controlled demolition to kill americans
> to start their idiotic war.
>
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:12:20 -0500
> Subject: [nsmworld] war with china? a different approach?
> From: "J. Knowles" <nsmkansasc... at hotmail.com>
>
> Greater China
>      Apr 20, 2006
>
> SPEAKING FREELY
> If it comes to a shooting war ...
> By Victor N Corpus
>
> Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest
> writers to
> have their say. Please click here if you are interested in
> contributing.
>
> One could call this article a worst-case scenario for the new American
> century. Why worst case? Because of the hard lessons from history. The
> Romans did not consider the worst-case scenario when Hannibal crossed
> the
> Alps with his elephants and routed them; or when Hannibal encircled and
>
> annihilated the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of
> Cannae.
>
> The French did not consider the worst-case scenario at Dien Bien Phu
> and
> when they built the Maginot Line, and the French suffered disastrous
> defeats. The Americans did not consider the
>
> worst-case scenario at Pearl Harbor or on September 11, and the results
> were
> disastrous for the American people. Again, American planners did not
> consider the worst-case scenario in its latest war
> in Iraq, but instead operated on the "best-case scenario", such as
> considering the Iraq invasion a "cake walk" and that the Iraqi people
> would
> be parading in the streets, throwing flowers and welcoming American
> soldiers
> as "liberators", only to discover the opposite.
>
> Scenario One: America launches 'preventive war' vs China
> Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This
> is a
> dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and
>
> requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating
> a
> region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient
> to
> generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia,
> the
> territory of the former Soviet Union and Southwest Asia.
> -Paul Wolfowitz, former US deputy secretary of defense and currently
> president of the World Bank
> Consider these snapshots of China:
>
> Since 1978, China has averaged 9.4% annual GDP growth
>
> It had a five-fold increase in total output per capita from 1982 to
> 2002
>
> It had $61 billion in foreign direct investment in 2004 alone and
> foreign
> trade of $851 billion, the third-largest in the world
>
> The US trade deficit with China exceeded $200 billion in 2005
>
> China has $750 billion in foreign exchange reserves and is the
> second-biggest oil importer
>
> Last year it turned out 442,000 new engineers a year; with 48,000
> graduates
> with master's degrees and 8,000 PhDs annually; compared to only 60,000
> new
> engineers a year in the US.
>
> China for the first time (2004) surpassed America to export the most
> technology wares around the world. China enjoyed a $34 billion trade
> surplus
> with the US in advanced technology products in 2004 (The Economist,
> December
> 17, 2005). In 2005, the surplus increased to $36 billion
>
> It created 20,000 new manufacturing facilities a year
>
> It holds $252 billion in US Treasury Bonds (plus $48 billion held by
> Hong
> Kong)
>
> Among the five basic food, energy and industrial commodities -grain
> and
> meat, oil and coal and steel -consumption in China has eclipsed that
> of the
> US in all but oil.
>
> China has also gone ahead of the US in the consumption of TV sets,
> refrigerators and mobile phones
>
> In 1996, China had 7 million cell phones and the US had 44 million. Now
>
> China has more mobile phone users than the US has people.
>
> China has about $1 trillion in personal savings and a savings rate of
> close
> to 50%; U.S. has about $158 billion in personal savings and a savings
> rate
> of about 2% (The Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2005)
> Shanghai boasts 4,000 skyscrapers - double the number in New York
> City (The
> Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2005)
> Songbei, Harbin City in north China is building a city as big as New
> York
> City
>
> Goldman Sachs predicts that China will surpass the US economy by 2041.
>
> Before China's economy catches up with America, and before China builds
> a
> military machine that can challenge American superpower status and
> world
> dominance, America's top strategic planners (Project for the New
> American
> Century) decide to launch a "preventive war" against China. As a
> pretext for
> this, the US instigates Taiwan to declare independence.
>
> Taiwan declares independence!
> China has anticipated and long prepared itself for this event. After
> observing "Operation Summer Pulse -04" when US aircraft carrier
> battle
> groups converged in the waters off China's coast in mid-July through
> August
> of 2004, Chinese planners began preparing to face its own worst-case
> scenario: the possibility of confronting a total of 15 carrier battle
> groups
> composed of 12 from America and three from its close British ally.
> China's
> strategists refer to its counter-strategy to defeat 15 or more aircraft
>
> carrier battle groups as the "assassin's mace" or shashaujian.
>
> After proper coordination with Russia and Iran and activating their
> previously agreed strategic plan, troops and weapon systems are
> pre-positioned. China then launches a missile barrage on Taiwan.
> Command and
> control nodes, military bases, logistics centers, vital war industries,
>
> government centers and air defense installations are simultaneously hit
> with
> short and medium range ballistic missiles armed with conventional,
> anti-radar, thermo baric and electro-magnetic pulse warheads.
>
> At the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command and Control
> Center,
> ranking defense officials watch huge electronic monitor screens showing
>
> seven US and two British aircraft carrier battle groups converging on
> the
> East China Sea with another three US carrier battle groups entering the
>
> Persian Gulf, while the remaining two US and one British battle groups
> remain in the Indian Ocean to serve as a strategic reserve.
>
> As the aircraft carrier battle groups advance, China draws out one of
> its
> "trump cards" by leaking to the world media that it is dumping its
> holdings
> of US Treasury bonds and shifting to gold and euros.
>
> Meanwhile, strategic planners at NORAD watch with glee as they observe
> on
> the screen as monitored by their radar satellites that Chinese surface
> ships
> are making a hasty retreat as nine allied carrier battle groups advance
>
> toward the Philippine Sea and Chinese waters near Taiwan.
>
> The assassin's mace: China's anti-satellite weapons
> Glee and ecstasy soon turn to shock as monitor screens suddenly go
> blank.
> Then all communication via satellites goes dead. China has drawn its
> second
> "trump card" (the assassin's mace) by activating its maneuverable
> "parasite"
> micro-satellites that have unknowingly clung to vital (NORAD) radar and
>
> communication satellites and have either jammed, blinded or physically
> destroyed their hosts.
>
> This is complemented by space mines that maneuver near adversary
> satellites
> and explode. Secret Chinese and Russian ground-based anti-satellite
> laser
> weapons also blind or bring down US and British satellites used for
> C4ISR
> (command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance
> and
> reconnaissance). And to ensure redundancy and make sure that the
> adversary
> C4ISR system is completely "blinded" even temporarily, hundreds of
> select
> Chinese and Russian information warriors (hackers) specifically trained
> to
> attack their adversary's C4ISR systems simultaneously launch their
> cyber
> offensive.
>
> For a few precious minutes, the US and UK advancing carrier battle
> groups
> are stunned and blinded by the "mace", ie, a defensive weapon used to
> temporarily blind a stronger opponent. But the word mace has another
> meaning; one which is deadlier and used in combination with the first.
>
> A mace can be a spiked war club used in olden times to knock out an
> opponent. Applied in modern times, the spikes of the assassin's mace
> refer
> to currently unstoppable supersonic cruise missiles capable of sinking
> aircraft carriers that are in China's inventory; complemented by
> equally
> unstoppable "squall" or SHKVAL rocket torpedoes and regular 65
> cm-diameter
> wake-homing torpedoes, bottom-rising rocket-propelled mines, and
> "obsolete"
> warplanes converted into unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) firing
>
> anti-ship missiles from standoff positions and finally dive-bombing
> into the
> heart of the US and UK aircraft carrier armada.
>
> Missile barrage on advancing carrier battle groups
> A few seconds after the "blackout", literally hundreds of short and
> medium-range ballistic missiles (DF7/9/11/15s, DF4s, DF21X/As, some of
> which
> are maneuverable) pre-positioned on the Chinese mainland, and stealthy,
>
> sea-skimming and highly-accurate cruise missiles (YJ12s, YJ22s,
> KH31A/Ps,
> YJ83s, C301s, C802s, SS-N-22s, SS-NX-26/27s, 3M54s & HN3s) delivered
> from
> platforms on land, sea and air race toward their respective designated
> targets at supersonic speed.
>
> Aircraft carriers are allotted a barrage of more than two dozen cruise
> missiles each, followed by a barrage of short and medium-range
> ballistic
> missiles timed to arrive in rapid succession.
>
> Supersonic cruise missiles constitute China's third deadly "trump card"
>
> against the US - part of the so-called assassin's mace. These
> unstoppable
> cruise missiles may be armed with 440-lb to 750-lb conventional
> warheads (or
> 200-kiloton tactical nuclear warheads 10 times stronger than Hiroshima)
>
> traveling at more than twice the speed of sound (or faster than a rifle
>
> bullet).
>
> The cruise missiles, together with the SRBMs and MRBMs (short and
> medium-range ballistic missiles) may also be armed with radio frequency
>
> weapons that can simulate the electro-magnetic pulse of nuclear
> explosions
> to fry computer chips, or fuel-air explosives that can annihilate the
> personnel in aircraft carriers and battleships without destroying the
> platforms.
>
> Their effective range varies from less than 100 to 1,800 kilometers
> from
> stand-off positions. Delivered by...
>
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