{"id":260915,"date":"2022-11-09T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260915"},"modified":"2022-11-11T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T08:05:54","slug":"head-of-us-nuclear-forces-claims-ukraine-just-a-warmup-for-very-long-struggle-with-russia-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260915","title":{"rendered":"Head of US Nuclear Forces Claims Ukraine \u2018Just a Warmup\u2019 for \u2018Very Long\u2019 Struggle With Russia, China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fantine Gardenier \u2013 Sputnik News Nov 7, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Since 2018, the US has seen its primary strategic focus as preparing for so-called \u201cgreat power competition\u201d with Russia and China. It claims the two nations are spearheading an effort to overturn the US-run global order established at the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

US Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the head of US Strategic Command, recently warned the US would soon face a protracted conflict with China unlike anything it\u2019s faced before. Stratcom is responsible for handling the country\u2019s nuclear weapons<\/a><\/u>, as well as the suite of defensive and offensive information capabilities termed C4ISR.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to do some rapid, fundamental change in the way we approach the defense of this nation,\u201d Richard said at a Navy symposium last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Ukraine crisis that we\u2019re in right now, this is just the warmup,\u201d he said. \u201cThe \u2018big one\u2019 is coming. And it isn\u2019t going to be very long before we\u2019re going to get tested in ways that we haven\u2019t been tested in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard warned \u201cthe ship is slowly sinking\u201d because China is fielding new capabilities faster than the United States, which will soon find itself outnumbered and outclassed on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]t isn\u2019t going to matter how good our [operating plan] is or how good our commanders are, or how good our horses are – we’re not going to have enough of them. And that is a very near-term problem,\u201d Richard asserted.<\/p>\n

Richard also criticized US stagnation, saying it had \u201clost the art\u201d of delivering new systems quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Air Force went from a request, almost written on a napkin … when they figured out in the late 1950s that the Soviet integrated air defense systems were getting to the point that the B-52 just wasn\u2019t going to make it in, and we needed a thing called a \u2018cruise missile,\u2019\u201d Richard recalled. \u201cAnd so, they envisioned what a standoff weapon looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

The US is already behind China in the key field of missiles, with China fielding a generation of ultra-long-range cruise missiles<\/a><\/u>, a bevy of ballistic missile varieties, and several varieties of hypersonic weapons<\/a><\/u> for which the US has no equal and no answer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

DF-17 hypersonic missiles join China’s National Day parade in Beijing. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Beijing has also developed a radar capable of detecting stealth aircraft and begun equipping its newest warships<\/a><\/u> with it, putting the US\u2019 vaunted F-22 and F-35 fleets at risk.<\/p>\n

However, the Pentagon is especially worried about what it fears was a fractional orbital bombardment<\/a><\/u> system China tested last year, saying it is a part of China\u2019s militarization of space. The US formed a separate Space Force in 2019, although its foundational doctrinal documents made clear that its goal was defending US space supremacy, not preventing the militarization of space.<\/p>\n

Comparisons between Russia\u2019s special operation in Ukraine and a presumed Chinese invasion of Taiwan<\/a><\/u> have been made by American leaders since the operation was launched in February, despite Chinese protests otherwise. However, the US has been preparing for a conflict with China since at least late 2017, when the Trump administration began introducing a series of new strategic documents outlining a shift in US foreign policy.<\/p>\n

The latest National Defense Strategy<\/a><\/u>, published by the Pentagon last month, continues planning for what it calls \u201cgreat power competition\u201d with Russia and China, specifying that it sees Russia as an \u201cacute threat\u201d and China as the long-term competitor. In it, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin refers to Beijing as Washington\u2019s \u201cmost consequential strategic competitor for the coming decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the head of US Strategic Command, recently warned the US would soon face a protracted conflict with China unlike anything it\u2019s faced before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":175121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260918,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260915\/revisions\/260918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}