US Intelligence Report a Cut-Paste on Chinese Missiles

College students can be flunked for cut-and-paste reports, think tankers can be embarrassed, Defense News staff writers can be fired, but not, apparently, members of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). Most of its so-called “updated” report, 2013 Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat, which contains contributions from the Defense Intelligence Agency Missile and…

Chinese Navy: Operational Challenge or Potential Partner?

I urge you all to WATCH THE VIDEO of the USNI/AFCEA West 2013 conference panel: “Chinese Navy: Operational Challenge or Potential Partner?” Particularly, Toshi Yoshihara at 38:20. Panelists include: Moderator Dr. David M. Finkelstein Vice President and Director, China Studies, Center for Naval Analyses Dr. Jacqueline Deal President and CEO, Long-Term Strategy Group CAPT James…

What China Wants for Christmas

I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me how the U.S. Navy plans to defend itself against a Chinese multi-layer, multi-directional saturation bombardment from anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM) and new carrier-killer DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM). How many RIM-161 Standard Missile 3s (SM-3) would the U.S. Navy carrier task force need to intercept a…