The United States would be vulnerable to a massive war with China, years of Pentagon war games suggest, and now a U.S. Air Force general is warning the simulations are showing the U.S. “losing faster.”
“More than a decade ago, our war games indicated that the Chinese were doing a good job of investing in military capabilities that would make our preferred model of expeditionary warfare, where we push forces forward and operate out of relatively safe bases and sanctuaries, increasingly difficult,” Air Force Lt. Gen. S. Clinton Hinote, told Yahoo News in an exclusive interview.
Advantages in technology, space satellites, military power, missile stockpiles, and the largest Navy in the world have continually shown China likely defeating the U.S. in a massive war.
“At that point the trend in our war games was not just that we were losing, but we were losing faster,” Hinote told Yahoo. “After the 2018 war game, I distinctly remember one of our gurus of war gaming standing in front of the Air Force secretary and chief of staff, and telling them that we should never play this war game scenario [of a Chinese attack on Taiwan] again, because we know what is going to happen.”
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{Matzav.com}
