Chapter 612: Sharpening the Knife Huohuo
The good thing that makes the Chinese dance with joy is a catastrophe for the Americans that their strategy to contain China in Asia faces a complete failure.
Needless to say, this major event of return is enough to make this oriental nation with a strong sense of rejuvenation more confident; Economically, it can integrate the Greater China Economic Circle and form a more powerful economic entity; Militarily, the so-called blockade of the first island chain has completely failed, but it has allowed the Yankees to hold the Japanese in their throats, and their maritime lifelines have been completely exposed to China's artillery fire.
After the mainland and Taiwan islands are connected, the mainland has one less opponent and one more helper, and the strength has increased a lot of one point or two points, plus the terrain of Taiwan Island is dangerous, and the PLA is effectively attacked within at least 1,000 kilometers based on Taiwan Island, so that it is very difficult for the Japanese to make a detour, the Pacific Ocean is very large, but if you really want to detour through the Pacific Ocean, not to mention the increase in the cost of shipping, the vast Pacific Ocean is not just a gentle side, and it is the season of frequent sea storms in summer. It's not easy to get through this dangerous sea.
On the ocean where there is no port for thousands of kilometers, and there is no village in front of the village, there is no store in the back, it is definitely a very severe test for the transport ship.
In the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, you can enter the port at any time to escape the storm. In this way, Chinese mainland is based on Taiwan Island and South Island, plus Sansha is fully capable of controlling the entire South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, cutting off the maritime lifeline of the Wukou at any time.
Washington, Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army.
"Tom, with our 2 squadrons of F-22 and 3 squadrons of F-35s already arriving in Naha, our military presence in Asia has been greatly enhanced," said Adm. McCall, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, "We have gathered more than 300 warplanes in Naha, including 3 squadrons of F-22 and 5 squadrons of F-35, plus F-15E and F-16C/D, which is more than our air power deployed in Europe, If you add in the carrier-based fighters of the four carrier fleets and the South Korean Air Force, we have amassed more than 700 warplanes in East Asia. ”
"It can be said that this is the strongest time for us to deploy air forces in Asia, and if you add the air forces of the Japanese and South Koreans, who can directly command it, the total number of third- and fourth-generation fighters exceeds 1,100. We are fully confident that we can rely on this reliable air force to destroy the PLA's air power at any time, as long as it is needed. Admiral McCaul is a hawk who advocates a tough line in the US military, and he believes that the recent penetration of the USS Ford by PLA submarines is a great provocation to the US military, and he has always advocated the adoption of resolute measures to fight back.
Now that the deployment of troops by the US military has basically completed the build-up of troops, Admiral McCaul hopes to find an excuse to teach the PLA a profound lesson, preferably as the Pakistani army humiliated the Indian army not long ago.
Although McCaul also received detailed information on the Indo-Pakistani war and the latest CIA assessment of the PLA's strength, McCaul felt that the intelligence services were overestimating their opponents. With regard to the Air Force, a high-tech branch that can only make breakthroughs by concentrating on cutting-edge industrial levels and long-term accumulation, Admiral McCaul believes that it is impossible for the PLA to achieve the results of several decades of the US military in just a few years. It's so unbelievable. After all, a Dr. Duke is a human being, not a god, and it is impossible for him to force the level of China's aerospace industry to narrow the technological gap with the United States by almost 30 years in a few years.
This is not a scientific analytical attitude, and Admiral McCall still has a deep prejudice against the CIA, believing that this is a means for the CIA to seize more resources.
This method is often used by his Air Force, whenever it is necessary for Congress to pass more military budgets, McCaul himself often tells some lies against his will, and strives for more fighter orders for the Air Force by exaggerating external threats, and the extremely expensive F-22 fighters of the US military have increased from the original 200 to nearly 300 now, and the F-35 has increased rapidly at a rate of 80 per year in recent years, and has now exceeded 600.
Despite this, Admiral McCaul often complained that the Air Force would face a severe shortage of fighters, because according to the original plan to maintain the size of the Air Force at about 2,000 aircraft, in recent years, with the retirement of F-16 and F-15 models, only about 600 F-16s and 250 F-15s remain, and the Air Force now has only 1,750 fighters at its disposal, a gap of more than 200 aircraft. Of course, the carrier-based aircraft owned by the Navy are not counted here.
It's just that both the F-22 and the F-35 have repeatedly broken through the budget price, which has caused great dissatisfaction among the members of Congress, who believe that with the current strength of the US military, there is no need for such a huge air force.
Therefore, McCaul's previous agreement with the sharp increase in the PLA's military strength analyzed by the CIA was actually mostly aimed at these congressmen, rather than really thinking that the PLA Air Force can be compared with the US Air Force.
Admiral Field, the joint chief of staff of the three services, heard Admiral McCall say this, nodded, now the air force stationed in East Asia is unprecedentedly strong, Admiral McCall said this is understandable, "However, Tim, the air force alone can't solve the problem, Ken, how is the Navy prepared?" ”
"The Navy has mobilized six aircraft carrier fleets into the Western Pacific region, four of which are now stationed at bases in Japan and two in Guam, and in terms of submarines, 16 Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines, two Seawolf-class nuclear submarines and six Ohio-class nuclear submarines have been assembled, and we believe that the Navy is now fully capable of coping with the joint attack of the four major fleets of the People's Liberation Army." Admiral Skes, Chief of Staff of the Navy, also said confidently.
More than half of the US aircraft carrier group and more than one-third of its nuclear submarines are now concentrated in the western Pacific region, and this is the first time since the Iraq War that the US Navy has assembled such a powerful force.
"So, everyone thinks we should find an opportunity to teach the Chinese a good lesson?" Admiral Field asked.
"Tom, I have an idea," the silent Army Chief of Staff Coral suddenly interjected, "We say no matter what, in Asia is a kind of foreign existence, foreign to find a good opportunity, we might as well transfer all the F-35 fighters to the Japanese, let them fight with the Chinese, anyway, they are feuds, we don't need to go shirtless to attract hatred points, only need to make a move when the Japanese are almost unable to support it." ”