The Pentagon’s new China war plan – China – Salon.com

Control is a crock. The world IS NOT ours to control. Continuing down this path is madness. The effort to control the world is bankrupting us. The harder we try, the more money we throw down the rat-hole of the defense budget. In the end we’ll lose control of our finances and our resources. Stop the madness now.

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government has encountered the practical limits of the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance. In its story about AirSea Battle and the China Integration Team, Inside the Pentagon revealed an oblique, if profound insight from Andrew Krepinevich, the highly regarded head of Washington’s Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. China, he said, is clearly jousting for control of the Western Pacific and “we have to decide whether we’re going to compete or not. If we’re not, then we have to be willing to accept the shift in the military balance.” Otherwise, “the question is how to compete effectively.”

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