A Racist Training Program for The US Navy
By Capt Joseph R. John, June 26, 2021: Op Ed # 563
“Recent comments by General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, demonstrate his willingness to support the venom of leftist ideology, and particularly its “anti-white” bigotry, under the same guise of “Critical Race Theory.” Among the troops, is a disaster, destroying “Combat Effectiveness”, “Unite Cohesion”, creating dangerous racial fractions in the US Armed Forces, and destroying the once color blind military. Such upheavals within military ranks are untenable and will only undermine morale, gravely diminishing all military capabilities. Communist China, Marxist Russia, and Iran’s Islamic Terrorists are laughing while they expand their militaries.
What must be clearly understood about the enlistment oath, the every member of the US Armed Forces takes, is that the ultimate pledge is not to any person or cabal, but to the Constitution of the United States of America. It is not a vow of blind allegiance, negating any other law or premise of right and wrong, mindlessly doing the bidding of whoever claims to be in power at the time. First and foremost, American military personnel are swearing to never willingly engage in any activity that would do harm to the Republic they serve. Yet on an ever increasing basis, that is what is being demanded of those who take the oath, at the hands of the Biden, Harris, Obama cabal and its minions among the self-serving “political” class of military leaders in the Pentagon. What Milley, a truly corrupt and dishonest member of the deep state, is demanding of all military personnel, is that they violate their enlistment oath; a self-serving Milley realizes he either follows the Biden, Harris, and Obama Administration dictates that are destroying the color blind US military, or be removed from his high paying position.
Here’s a little insight for General Milley, and any of the other Joint Chiefs, like the woke Chief of Naval Operations referred to in the below listed article who align themselves with the ant-white racist Critical Race Theory. “Critical Race Theory” is the ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is not about promoting equality among all the differing ethnicities who comprise “We the People.” It is about presuming “total guilt” among “one” race, “White Americans”, and invoking that as justification for every form of unfettered bigotry and racial discord from leftist blacks and other minorities who are willing to pile on and vilify all whites.”
(Joint Chiefs Demand Military Personnel Violate Enlistment Oath; Christopher G. Adamo | Jun 25, 2021)
If you click on the below listed link, read the article by Daniel Greenfield, and watch the slanted video prepared by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Gilday, you will understand that the Domestic Enemies of the United States Constitutional Republic are now running the Department of Defense while destroying the “Combat Effectiveness” and “Unit Cohesion” of Obama’s new “Woke” Navy. The article that opens, when you click the link, outlines the Racist Training Program that US Domestic Enemies have put in place.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-training-program-us-navy-daniel-greenfield/
The long term goals of the Racist Training Program, are outlined in the below listed article by Daniel John Sobieski, that follows the text of this Op Ed. The goal of the Racial Training Program is to drive highly qualified white Conservative, Christian, and Constitutionalists career members of the US Armed Forces who voted for President Trump out of the US Armed Forces. The Domestic Enemies of the United States have been recruiting non-white Progressives, Leftists, Socialists, Marxists, and Transgender/Gay recruits, to replace the highly qualified white Conservative, Christian, and Constitutionalist’s career members of the US Armed Forces who are being marginalized, so they will never be selected for promotion, and out of frustration, will be driven out of the US Armed Forces.
Why have Republicans, led by McConnell and McCarthy, done absolutely “nothing at all” to prevent Biden, Harris, Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer from destroying the “Combat Effectiveness and “Unit Cohesion” of every branch of the US Armed Forces? It is being done to the delight of Communist China, Marxist Russia, and the Iran’s Radical Islamic Terrorists. Those three countries are feverishly expanding their armies and navies in preparation to invade Taiwan, to destroy the US Navy, and to then take control of a weakened United States with the support of their Socialist allies, the US Domestic Enemies in the United States.
While the rapid buildup of the Chinese Communist and Russian Navies is underway, Biden, Harris, and Obama have just cut back the long-range plans, put in place by the Trump Administration, to expand the US Navy Fleet of combat ships. The growing Chinese Communist Navy currently has 350 ships. For the first time in history, the US Navy with 293 ships, is smaller than the Communist Chinese Navy. The Communist Chinese Navy is rapidly building a modernized and technical sophisticated fleet; it has its third aircraft carrier under construction, with plans to build four additional aircraft carriers.
Republicans in Congress, led by McConnell and McCarthy, are focused on raising donations to fund their 2022 mid-term Congressional campaigns, believing that will be the key to winning the 2022 mid-term Congressional elections. It appears, eight months after the 2020 election, that extraordinarily little action has been taken to eliminate the Communist Chinese owned Dominion Voting Machines installed in 31 states, that count the votes on election day. Failure to be involved in an all-consuming full court press, to remove the Communist Chinese voting machines, will be disastrous in the 2022 Congressional Mi-term elections. It leads one to believe that McConnell and McCarthy have learned little from the election theft that occurred in the 2020 election, when Communist Chinese Dominion Voting Machines vote totals were changed via the Internet, late on election night when most voters were sleeping, with the help of their Socialist US Domestic Enemies allied with Communist China.
On the 2022 election day, the Communist Chinese Dominion Voting Machines will, once again, be connected via the Internet directly to Communist Chinese operatives offshore, working with their Socialist US Domestic Enemies, who will allow Communist China to change the vote totals in each of the 31 states, at will, late on election night, to flip the vote totals once again, ensuring Socialist Democrats will steal the 2022 mid-term Congressional election. Massive voter fraud and Ballot Harvesting will once again be perpetrated by Pelosi and Schumer with Socialist Democrats in 50 states.
If in November 2022, the same Communist Chinese owned Dominion Voting Machines are used in the 31 states that employed those machines to count the vote totals on election night, then the result of that election will be a repeat of how Communist China and their US Socialist Democrat allies stole the 2020 presidential election, when state officials, not the state legislatures, also conducted the election in those battleground states in violation of Federal Election Laws and the US Constitution. American Citizens have 17 short months, to convince McConnell and McCarthy to “do something, do anything”, to remove the Communist Chinese owned Dominion Voting Machines from 31 states, or the US Constitutional Republic will become a Socialist State under the control of Communist China’s allies in the House and Senate.
Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62
Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI
Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC
2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184
San Diego, CA 92108
https://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org
https://www.facebook.com/combatveteransforcongress?ref=hl
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!” -Isaiah 6:8
The Constitutional Conservatives
Chief Of Naval Operations: “I Have Not Yet Begun To Be Woke”
Daniel John Sobieski
June 18, 2021
Or should his title be chief of navel-gazing operations? Someone should tell Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday that he has just one job – to manage and deploy the ships of the United States Navy in such a way to guarantee our freedom of the seas and to deny the enemy the use of those seas to attack the United States, sending enemy fleets to the bottom of those seas if necessary in time of war.
He is a military warrior. He is not a social justice warrior. Diversity to him, if I may be so bold as to use a gender pronoun, should be the proper mix of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines needed to fight America’s naval battles and project American power to defend our homeland and our allies. China and Russia don’t fear the diversity of our crews or the ethnicity and gender of the finger that launches that Tomahawk missile only their ability to fight and win battles.
But no, instead of preparing our fleets for battle, Admiral Gilday is damning the torpedoes and going full speed ahead on pushing Critical Race Theory on the Navy by putting a book espousing Critical Race Theory on the Navy’s reading list for sailors. His recent testimony before Congress shows us the trouble we’re in”
Adm. Michael M. Gilday, the Chief of Naval Operations, did not answer questions Tuesday about whether author-activist Ibram X. Kendi’s opposition to interracial adoption and capitalism is extreme.
But, Gilday did tell the House Armed Services Committee that Kendi’s controversial book “How to Be an Antiracist” would lead to “a better Navy” by promoting more discussion on racism in America.
Kendi is Director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, and his book contends that America is a fundamentally racist country.
At the hearing, Cong Jim Banks, Lt/USNR (R-IN-3), an endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, teed up a question to Gilday by noting that “the Navy recently completed a one-day ‘stand-down’ to remove extremism from the ranks.”
“In my view, Kendi has espoused extremist beliefs that clearly violate the oath to the Constitution I took when I served in the Navy,” Banks said….
“Let me ask you again, Admiral: Do you expect that after sailors read this book that says that the United States Navy is racist, that we will increase or decrease morale or cohesion and recruiting rates into the United States Navy?”
Gilday replied: “I think we’ll be a better Navy from having open, honest conversations about racism.”
The U.S. military is in fact the greatest meritocracy in the world. In the best tradition of Martin Luther King it judges people on the content of their character and their ability to fight, not the color of their skin. This book Gilday is pushing on sailors does not improve military preparedness or morale. Who wants to fight and die for a fundamentally racist country?
Here’s some fact, not theory, for Admiral Gilday. The Chinese and Russians want to be our oppressors. They want us to be oppressed by them. Preparing for that end, Russia recently held naval exercises off Hawaii:
Russian ships are conducting the largest military exercises since the Cold War off the coast of Hawaii, sending the US Air Force scrambling hours before President Biden meets Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The exercises, conducted by the Russian Navy in the Pacific Ocean 300 to 500 miles west of Hawaii, include long-range bombers, surface ships and anti-submarine aircraft.
The US Air Force scrambled F-22 stealth fighters from Hawaii in response to the exercises.
Russia has conducted joint naval exercises with China, which has built the world’s largest navy with the fruits of its theft of U.S. intellectual property and technology and trade imbalances. The Chinese are laughing at our wokeness as it prepares to do battle with and defeat the U.S. Navy and as it prepares to invade Taiwan. They are not concerned with diversity or the proportion of Muslim Uighurs on its ship as it moves to take command of the seas:
Take a look around. Russia recently conducted large naval drills around Ukraine. Chinese aircraft and warships are busily trying to intimidate Taiwan and bully Philippine fishermen in the South China Sea. All the while, Beijing assiduously has been expanding its navy at breakneck pace.
That pace is staggering as Beijing acquires port privileges and naval facilities around the globe. China’s new deep water navy is aimed at seizing Taiwan, kicking us out of the Western Pacific and neutering our nacal capabilities worldwide:
China has the largest navy in the world. And it’s not just big, but it’s getting better.
“The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has the largest navy in the world, with an overall battle force of approximately 350 ships and submarines including over 130 major surface combatants,” states the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2020 annual report to Congress on Chinese military power. “In comparison, the U.S. Navy’s battle force is approximately 293 ships as of early 2020.”
China’s Navy “is an increasingly modern and flexible force that has focused on replacing previous generations of platforms with limited capabilities in favor of larger, modern multi-role combatants,” the report says. “As of 2019, the PLAN is largely composed of modern multi-role platforms featuring advanced anti-ship, antiair, and anti-submarine weapons and sensors.”
China’s growing fleet of aircraft carriers has garnered the most attention. The PLAN has one decrepit ex-Soviet carrier, a newly commissioned carrier that is the first built in China, a third carrier under construction, and plans to build an additional four or more vessels. Fitted with advanced features like an electromagnetic launch system, a Chinese carrier fleet could provide air cover for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan, or even confront the U.S. Navy in the first carrier versus carriers battles since World War II.
An editorial in China’s The Global Times, a newspaper seen as a mouthpiece for hardline nationalists in Beijing warns of the consequences of resistance warns, “If the United States’ bottom line is that China has to halt these activities, then a U.S. China war is inevitable in the South China Sea.” As Investor’s Business Daily has noted:
Beijing has long declared the South China Sea to be its territorial waters and has laid claim to two disputed chains: the Paracel Islands, about 200 miles from the coast of Vietnam, and the Spratly Islands in the southeastern part of the South China Sea. China’s territorial ambitions include the Senkakus in the East China Sea, part of what Chinese military doctrine refers to as the “first island chain” that surrounds China.
In the South China Sea, as of February, China had finished construction on no less than six different island reefs from which to project its power in the South China Sea. Included in its military effort is the construction of a 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) long runway on the artificially expanded Fiery Cross Reef as a base for Chinese fighter aircraft. According to Reuters,
China’s creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its navy, air force, coastguard and fishing fleets before long, much to the alarm of rival claimants to the contested waters.
Reclamation work is well advanced on six reefs in the Spratly archipelago, according to recently published satellite photographs and Philippine officials. In addition, Manila said this month that Chinese dredgers had started reclaiming a seventh.
A few years ago, naval commanders expressed concern that our ability to respond to such threats has been severely compromised by leaders more concerned about rising sea levels than rising threats on those seas. The Navy captains’ Congressional testimony came after the Chinese announcement that it was building its second aircraft to go along with a refurbished Soviet carrier, the Liaonng, commissioned by China in 2012 after extensive refitting of the 25-year-old vessel. As IBD has reported, the Liaoning is only the first step I the building of a blue-water navy capable of competing with our diminishing one, with Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, warning that the U.S. was losing its Pacific dominance to China:
China’s Communist Party-affiliated newspaper, Global Times, gloated over Locklear’s warning, noting his remarks in a story beneath the headline “U.S. losing grip on Pacific: PACOM.”
In the Times story, Jin Canrong, a deputy dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, said the American admiral’s comments recognize China as a rising military power. Indeed, it is. China has launched its first stealth drone, known as Sharp Sword, and is developing indigenous aircraft carriers. Its “two-ocean strategy” is based on the goal of building a fleet of five or six carrier battle groups.
China’s first battle group, led by its first carrier, the Liaoning, recently conducted a monthlong exercise that saw the refurbished Soviet-built flattop and her escorts sail south to the waters near Taiwan. During the exercise, a Chinese warship nearly collided with the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens, which was shadowing the battle group.
China is preparing for a naval confrontation with the United States. We may lose that confrontation in the South China Sea because the U.S. Navy is focusing on “wokeness”, not readiness.
Daniel John Sobieski is a former editorial writer for Investor’s Business Daily and free-lance writer whose pieces have appeared in Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
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A Racist Training Program for the US Navy, by Capt John USN (ret)/FBI
A Racist Training Program for The US Navy
By Capt Joseph R. John, June 26, 2021: Op Ed # 563
“Recent comments by General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, demonstrate his willingness to support the venom of leftist ideology, and particularly its “anti-white” bigotry, under the same guise of “Critical Race Theory.” Among the troops, is a disaster, destroying “Combat Effectiveness”, “Unite Cohesion”, creating dangerous racial fractions in the US Armed Forces, and destroying the once color blind military. Such upheavals within military ranks are untenable and will only undermine morale, gravely diminishing all military capabilities. Communist China, Marxist Russia, and Iran’s Islamic Terrorists are laughing while they expand their militaries.
What must be clearly understood about the enlistment oath, the every member of the US Armed Forces takes, is that the ultimate pledge is not to any person or cabal, but to the Constitution of the United States of America. It is not a vow of blind allegiance, negating any other law or premise of right and wrong, mindlessly doing the bidding of whoever claims to be in power at the time. First and foremost, American military personnel are swearing to never willingly engage in any activity that would do harm to the Republic they serve. Yet on an ever increasing basis, that is what is being demanded of those who take the oath, at the hands of the Biden, Harris, Obama cabal and its minions among the self-serving “political” class of military leaders in the Pentagon. What Milley, a truly corrupt and dishonest member of the deep state, is demanding of all military personnel, is that they violate their enlistment oath; a self-serving Milley realizes he either follows the Biden, Harris, and Obama Administration dictates that are destroying the color blind US military, or be removed from his high paying position.
Here’s a little insight for General Milley, and any of the other Joint Chiefs, like the woke Chief of Naval Operations referred to in the below listed article who align themselves with the ant-white racist Critical Race Theory. “Critical Race Theory” is the ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing. It is not about promoting equality among all the differing ethnicities who comprise “We the People.” It is about presuming “total guilt” among “one” race, “White Americans”, and invoking that as justification for every form of unfettered bigotry and racial discord from leftist blacks and other minorities who are willing to pile on and vilify all whites.”
(Joint Chiefs Demand Military Personnel Violate Enlistment Oath; Christopher G. Adamo | Jun 25, 2021)
If you click on the below listed link, read the article by Daniel Greenfield, and watch the slanted video prepared by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Michael Gilday, you will understand that the Domestic Enemies of the United States Constitutional Republic are now running the Department of Defense while destroying the “Combat Effectiveness” and “Unit Cohesion” of Obama’s new “Woke” Navy. The article that opens, when you click the link, outlines the Racist Training Program that US Domestic Enemies have put in place.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-training-program-us-navy-daniel-greenfield/
The long term goals of the Racist Training Program, are outlined in the below listed article by Daniel John Sobieski, that follows the text of this Op Ed. The goal of the Racial Training Program is to drive highly qualified white Conservative, Christian, and Constitutionalists career members of the US Armed Forces who voted for President Trump out of the US Armed Forces. The Domestic Enemies of the United States have been recruiting non-white Progressives, Leftists, Socialists, Marxists, and Transgender/Gay recruits, to replace the highly qualified white Conservative, Christian, and Constitutionalist’s career members of the US Armed Forces who are being marginalized, so they will never be selected for promotion, and out of frustration, will be driven out of the US Armed Forces.
Why have Republicans, led by McConnell and McCarthy, done absolutely “nothing at all” to prevent Biden, Harris, Obama, Pelosi, and Schumer from destroying the “Combat Effectiveness and “Unit Cohesion” of every branch of the US Armed Forces? It is being done to the delight of Communist China, Marxist Russia, and the Iran’s Radical Islamic Terrorists. Those three countries are feverishly expanding their armies and navies in preparation to invade Taiwan, to destroy the US Navy, and to then take control of a weakened United States with the support of their Socialist allies, the US Domestic Enemies in the United States.
While the rapid buildup of the Chinese Communist and Russian Navies is underway, Biden, Harris, and Obama have just cut back the long-range plans, put in place by the Trump Administration, to expand the US Navy Fleet of combat ships. The growing Chinese Communist Navy currently has 350 ships. For the first time in history, the US Navy with 293 ships, is smaller than the Communist Chinese Navy. The Communist Chinese Navy is rapidly building a modernized and technical sophisticated fleet; it has its third aircraft carrier under construction, with plans to build four additional aircraft carriers.
Republicans in Congress, led by McConnell and McCarthy, are focused on raising donations to fund their 2022 mid-term Congressional campaigns, believing that will be the key to winning the 2022 mid-term Congressional elections. It appears, eight months after the 2020 election, that extraordinarily little action has been taken to eliminate the Communist Chinese owned Dominion Voting Machines installed in 31 states, that count the votes on election day. Failure to be involved in an all-consuming full court press, to remove the Communist Chinese voting machines, will be disastrous in the 2022 Congressional Mi-term elections. It leads one to believe that McConnell and McCarthy have learned little from the election theft that occurred in the 2020 election, when Communist Chinese Dominion Voting Machines vote totals were changed via the Internet, late on election night when most voters were sleeping, with the help of their Socialist US Domestic Enemies allied with Communist China.
On the 2022 election day, the Communist Chinese Dominion Voting Machines will, once again, be connected via the Internet directly to Communist Chinese operatives offshore, working with their Socialist US Domestic Enemies, who will allow Communist China to change the vote totals in each of the 31 states, at will, late on election night, to flip the vote totals once again, ensuring Socialist Democrats will steal the 2022 mid-term Congressional election. Massive voter fraud and Ballot Harvesting will once again be perpetrated by Pelosi and Schumer with Socialist Democrats in 50 states.
If in November 2022, the same Communist Chinese owned Dominion Voting Machines are used in the 31 states that employed those machines to count the vote totals on election night, then the result of that election will be a repeat of how Communist China and their US Socialist Democrat allies stole the 2020 presidential election, when state officials, not the state legislatures, also conducted the election in those battleground states in violation of Federal Election Laws and the US Constitution. American Citizens have 17 short months, to convince McConnell and McCarthy to “do something, do anything”, to remove the Communist Chinese owned Dominion Voting Machines from 31 states, or the US Constitutional Republic will become a Socialist State under the control of Communist China’s allies in the House and Senate.
Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62
Capt USN(Ret)/Former FBI
Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC
2307 Fenton Parkway, Suite 107-184
San Diego, CA 92108
https://www.CombatVeteransForCongress.org
https://www.facebook.com/combatveteransforcongress?ref=hl
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!” -Isaiah 6:8
The Constitutional Conservatives
Chief Of Naval Operations: “I Have Not Yet Begun To Be Woke”
Daniel John Sobieski
June 18, 2021
Or should his title be chief of navel-gazing operations? Someone should tell Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday that he has just one job – to manage and deploy the ships of the United States Navy in such a way to guarantee our freedom of the seas and to deny the enemy the use of those seas to attack the United States, sending enemy fleets to the bottom of those seas if necessary in time of war.
He is a military warrior. He is not a social justice warrior. Diversity to him, if I may be so bold as to use a gender pronoun, should be the proper mix of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and submarines needed to fight America’s naval battles and project American power to defend our homeland and our allies. China and Russia don’t fear the diversity of our crews or the ethnicity and gender of the finger that launches that Tomahawk missile only their ability to fight and win battles.
But no, instead of preparing our fleets for battle, Admiral Gilday is damning the torpedoes and going full speed ahead on pushing Critical Race Theory on the Navy by putting a book espousing Critical Race Theory on the Navy’s reading list for sailors. His recent testimony before Congress shows us the trouble we’re in”
Adm. Michael M. Gilday, the Chief of Naval Operations, did not answer questions Tuesday about whether author-activist Ibram X. Kendi’s opposition to interracial adoption and capitalism is extreme.
But, Gilday did tell the House Armed Services Committee that Kendi’s controversial book “How to Be an Antiracist” would lead to “a better Navy” by promoting more discussion on racism in America.
Kendi is Director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, and his book contends that America is a fundamentally racist country.
At the hearing, Cong Jim Banks, Lt/USNR (R-IN-3), an endorsed Combat Veteran For Congress, teed up a question to Gilday by noting that “the Navy recently completed a one-day ‘stand-down’ to remove extremism from the ranks.”
“In my view, Kendi has espoused extremist beliefs that clearly violate the oath to the Constitution I took when I served in the Navy,” Banks said….
“Let me ask you again, Admiral: Do you expect that after sailors read this book that says that the United States Navy is racist, that we will increase or decrease morale or cohesion and recruiting rates into the United States Navy?”
Gilday replied: “I think we’ll be a better Navy from having open, honest conversations about racism.”
The U.S. military is in fact the greatest meritocracy in the world. In the best tradition of Martin Luther King it judges people on the content of their character and their ability to fight, not the color of their skin. This book Gilday is pushing on sailors does not improve military preparedness or morale. Who wants to fight and die for a fundamentally racist country?
Here’s some fact, not theory, for Admiral Gilday. The Chinese and Russians want to be our oppressors. They want us to be oppressed by them. Preparing for that end, Russia recently held naval exercises off Hawaii:
Russian ships are conducting the largest military exercises since the Cold War off the coast of Hawaii, sending the US Air Force scrambling hours before President Biden meets Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The exercises, conducted by the Russian Navy in the Pacific Ocean 300 to 500 miles west of Hawaii, include long-range bombers, surface ships and anti-submarine aircraft.
The US Air Force scrambled F-22 stealth fighters from Hawaii in response to the exercises.
Russia has conducted joint naval exercises with China, which has built the world’s largest navy with the fruits of its theft of U.S. intellectual property and technology and trade imbalances. The Chinese are laughing at our wokeness as it prepares to do battle with and defeat the U.S. Navy and as it prepares to invade Taiwan. They are not concerned with diversity or the proportion of Muslim Uighurs on its ship as it moves to take command of the seas:
Take a look around. Russia recently conducted large naval drills around Ukraine. Chinese aircraft and warships are busily trying to intimidate Taiwan and bully Philippine fishermen in the South China Sea. All the while, Beijing assiduously has been expanding its navy at breakneck pace.
That pace is staggering as Beijing acquires port privileges and naval facilities around the globe. China’s new deep water navy is aimed at seizing Taiwan, kicking us out of the Western Pacific and neutering our nacal capabilities worldwide:
China has the largest navy in the world. And it’s not just big, but it’s getting better.
“The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has the largest navy in the world, with an overall battle force of approximately 350 ships and submarines including over 130 major surface combatants,” states the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2020 annual report to Congress on Chinese military power. “In comparison, the U.S. Navy’s battle force is approximately 293 ships as of early 2020.”
China’s Navy “is an increasingly modern and flexible force that has focused on replacing previous generations of platforms with limited capabilities in favor of larger, modern multi-role combatants,” the report says. “As of 2019, the PLAN is largely composed of modern multi-role platforms featuring advanced anti-ship, antiair, and anti-submarine weapons and sensors.”
China’s growing fleet of aircraft carriers has garnered the most attention. The PLAN has one decrepit ex-Soviet carrier, a newly commissioned carrier that is the first built in China, a third carrier under construction, and plans to build an additional four or more vessels. Fitted with advanced features like an electromagnetic launch system, a Chinese carrier fleet could provide air cover for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan, or even confront the U.S. Navy in the first carrier versus carriers battles since World War II.
An editorial in China’s The Global Times, a newspaper seen as a mouthpiece for hardline nationalists in Beijing warns of the consequences of resistance warns, “If the United States’ bottom line is that China has to halt these activities, then a U.S. China war is inevitable in the South China Sea.” As Investor’s Business Daily has noted:
Beijing has long declared the South China Sea to be its territorial waters and has laid claim to two disputed chains: the Paracel Islands, about 200 miles from the coast of Vietnam, and the Spratly Islands in the southeastern part of the South China Sea. China’s territorial ambitions include the Senkakus in the East China Sea, part of what Chinese military doctrine refers to as the “first island chain” that surrounds China.
In the South China Sea, as of February, China had finished construction on no less than six different island reefs from which to project its power in the South China Sea. Included in its military effort is the construction of a 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) long runway on the artificially expanded Fiery Cross Reef as a base for Chinese fighter aircraft. According to Reuters,
China’s creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its navy, air force, coastguard and fishing fleets before long, much to the alarm of rival claimants to the contested waters.
Reclamation work is well advanced on six reefs in the Spratly archipelago, according to recently published satellite photographs and Philippine officials. In addition, Manila said this month that Chinese dredgers had started reclaiming a seventh.
A few years ago, naval commanders expressed concern that our ability to respond to such threats has been severely compromised by leaders more concerned about rising sea levels than rising threats on those seas. The Navy captains’ Congressional testimony came after the Chinese announcement that it was building its second aircraft to go along with a refurbished Soviet carrier, the Liaonng, commissioned by China in 2012 after extensive refitting of the 25-year-old vessel. As IBD has reported, the Liaoning is only the first step I the building of a blue-water navy capable of competing with our diminishing one, with Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, warning that the U.S. was losing its Pacific dominance to China:
China’s Communist Party-affiliated newspaper, Global Times, gloated over Locklear’s warning, noting his remarks in a story beneath the headline “U.S. losing grip on Pacific: PACOM.”
In the Times story, Jin Canrong, a deputy dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, said the American admiral’s comments recognize China as a rising military power. Indeed, it is. China has launched its first stealth drone, known as Sharp Sword, and is developing indigenous aircraft carriers. Its “two-ocean strategy” is based on the goal of building a fleet of five or six carrier battle groups.
China’s first battle group, led by its first carrier, the Liaoning, recently conducted a monthlong exercise that saw the refurbished Soviet-built flattop and her escorts sail south to the waters near Taiwan. During the exercise, a Chinese warship nearly collided with the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens, which was shadowing the battle group.
China is preparing for a naval confrontation with the United States. We may lose that confrontation in the South China Sea because the U.S. Navy is focusing on “wokeness”, not readiness.
Daniel John Sobieski is a former editorial writer for Investor’s Business Daily and free-lance writer whose pieces have appeared in Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
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