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188/ns The urgent need for an Indian (conventionally armed) #Rocket #Force & associated #ISR to deter a decapitating strike by #PLARF 🧵
189/ns Step by step build up, to #Theaterization 🧵
My interview w/ @GrecianFormula:
With its continued dev't of #ASBMs & associated targeting architecture, #China continues to work on changing the game in #SCS & beyond—but so too does US w/ its own developments & countermeasures.
bit.ly/DF-26-B
19fortyfive.com/2020/11/chinas…
With its continued dev't of #ASBMs & associated targeting architecture, #China continues to work on changing the game in #SCS & beyond—but so too does US w/ its own developments & countermeasures.
bit.ly/DF-26-B
19fortyfive.com/2020/11/chinas…
The game is afoot, and much is at stake.
But by no means is the game over for @USNavy, in the #SouthChinaSea or anywhere else.
bit.ly/DF-26-B
My #BottomLine: there’s no cause for declinist defeatism.
19fortyfive.com/2020/11/chinas…
But by no means is the game over for @USNavy, in the #SouthChinaSea or anywhere else.
bit.ly/DF-26-B
My #BottomLine: there’s no cause for declinist defeatism.
19fortyfive.com/2020/11/chinas…
In @Princeton @PUPolitics's PhD program, I had many great colleagues, incl. @ChongJaIan; w/ @osmastro & @AdamPLiff to follow!
I focused my research on #Chinese #Aerospace Development. Historical summary: andrewerickson.com/2014/09/chinas…
#BottomLine: PRC prioritized #ballistic #missiles.
I focused my research on #Chinese #Aerospace Development. Historical summary: andrewerickson.com/2014/09/chinas…
#BottomLine: PRC prioritized #ballistic #missiles.
All those who think #PLA is a sovereign force of #China🇨🇳 are wrong. #PLA is not the member of the sovereign state of #China but an armed component of #CCP #Mafia.
ADM #HarryHarris:
#PLARF "controls the 'largest & most diverse #missile force in the world, with an inventory of more than 2,000 ballistic & cruise missiles.'
...if #China were a signatory [to #INF #Treaty], 95% of its #missiles would be in violation"
andrewerickson.com/2019/08/u-s-en…
#PLARF "controls the 'largest & most diverse #missile force in the world, with an inventory of more than 2,000 ballistic & cruise missiles.'
...if #China were a signatory [to #INF #Treaty], 95% of its #missiles would be in violation"
andrewerickson.com/2019/08/u-s-en…
My take: #Russia wouldn’t fully honor #INF. #China wouldn’t join INF. Unilateral constraint was a losing proposition: China developed the world’s foremost force of #missiles precisely within the ranges that INF would prohibit. So this increasingly antiquated treaty had no future.
1 post-INF option for US—reach agreements w allies/partners to allow rapid introduction of missiles in various contingencies to support their defense. Even if peacetime politics precluded permanent deployment, more concerning scenarios could tip balance in favor of local support.
