China’s the new superpower, an enemy planning as we waste economic resources.
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China, an economy 40% of the world’s GDP, versus GDP 14%. Yes, this is how WWIII starts, between an aging war-lovng America, versus the world’s rapidly emerging superpower, China, with a population that’s one billion larger than America by 2050. This is a battle between an old superpower and a new one.” Warrior mind-set sabotages our superpower status and economy
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But they know what the world knows: This is no longer Taiwan’s fight. “Taiwan’s air force is grounded … Taiwanese troops mobilize in downtown Taipei, take up positions on the beaches facing China, just 100 miles to the west. The mass raid overwhelms the defenses as hundreds of Chinese warheads blast the island’s military bases and airports.” Taiwan’s modest missile defense network, a scattered deployment of I-Hawk and Patriot interceptors … slams into dozens of incoming warheads … a futile gesture. China’s war against “Taiwan starts in the early morning … 1,200 cruise and ballistic missiles rise from heavy vehicles on the Chinese mainland. 9, 2015, 0400, a moment predicted years ago, yet ironically right about the upcoming GOP presidential primary debates. Sofge’s WWIII fast-paced thriller begins on Aug. Yes, “popular,” part of America’s DNA since the Revolutionary War. Five years ago I couldn’t resist Erik Sofge’s edgy fast-paced thriller, “China’s Secret War Plan,” a frontrunner of Morell’s “CIA War Against Terrorism” and Singer’s “Ghost Fleet.” In Popular Mechanics: One of my favorites as a kid working in a small-town magazine store. Marine Corps posters grabbed me as a kid. Why else let the military budget burn 48% of your tax dollars? Why ignore Nixon staffer and historian Kevin Phillips’s warning that “most great nations, at the peak of their economic power, become arrogant, wage great world wars at great cost, wasting vast resources, taking on huge debt, ultimately burning themselves out.”Īdmit it, we love war. Last year it almost ignited with China’s takeover of disputed islands in the South China Sea. Yes, WWIII is closing in, getting hotter. New World War: Forget Big Oil? Buy more military defense stocks? Military Times correspondent Lawrence Korb, a Naval War College veteran called “Ghost Fleet” a “realistic scenario of what might happen if a brewing Cold War with China and Russia” ever turns hot. Singer’s “written authoritative books on America’s reliance on private military contractors, cybersecurity and the Defense Department’s growing dependence on robots, drones and technology,” and why that puts national security at high risk. Speculation? No, the Journal’s Dion Nissenbaum reminded us Chinese hackers have already got into “White House computers, defense industry plans and millions of secret U.S. and the Chinese Army may one day occupy Hawaii.” In fact, even America’s advanced new F-35 fighter jets may be “blown from the sky by their Chinese-made microchips and Chinese hackers easily could worm their way into the military’s secretive intelligence service. Singer’s “one of Washington’s pre-eminent futurists.” He’s now “walking the Pentagon halls with an ominous warning for America’s military leaders: World War III with China is coming.”
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The Wall Street Journal just reviewed “The Ghost Fleet” by Peter Singer and August Cole. Yes, WWIII is hot news with the Pentagon brass. Worse, WWIII will go on for decades, “for as far as I can see,” says the CIA insider. Morell’s new book, “The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism From Al Qa’ida to ISIS,” makes clear America is already fighting World War III today. With Obama in the situation room when word came “Navy Seal Team Six had killed Osama bin Laden.” Twice acting CIA director, says USA Today’s Susan Page. Bush in 2001 when hijacked airliners hit the World Trade Center. USA Today headline: “CIA veteran Morell: ISIS’ next test could be a 9/11-style attack.” That warning’s from an insider with George W.