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Even so, the main advantage of having submarine-based weapons over ones in land silos is that you don't need to open fire at the first sign of enemy action, for fear of losing your missiles. A calm China with sub-launched nukes is arguably safer for America than the old twitchy PRC with its vulnerable land silos.
Many in the Pentagon don't agree, however. In particular, there seems to be some worry that China plans to dominate outer space.
"In January 2007," the military analysts write, "China successfully tested a direct-ascent [anti-satellite] missile demonstrating its ability to attack satellites operating in low-Earth orbit. The direct ascent [anti-satellite] system is one component of a multi-dimensional program to generate the capability to deny others access to outer space."
The report also says that "UHF-band satellite communications jammers acquired from Ukraine in the late 1990s and probable indigenous systems give China today the capacity to jam common satellite communications bands and GPS receivers ... China is also developing other technologies and concepts for kinetic (hit-to-kill) weapons and directed-energy (e.g., lasers and radio frequency) weapons for [anti-satellite] missions ... China is improving its ability to track and identify satellites – a prerequisite for effective, precise physical attacks."
According to the Pentagon, this "poses dangers to human space flight and puts at risk the assets of all space faring nations."
And the inscrutable Chinese are also developing an "information warfare" force capable of "computer network attack," to achieve "electromagnetic dominance."
The People's Liberation Army, apparently, "has established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks."
Any reader of William Gibson's classic Neuromancer will by now be dimly remembering the Kuang Grade Mark Eleven penetration program, the "user friendly Chinese icebreaker" that was "real friendly, long as you're on the trigger end."
If the Pentagon analysts are right, it'll be the PLA on the trigger, and Taiwan or maybe even America looking down the wrong end of the Kuang Elevens of the future.
Commenting on the report, US Defense Secretary Robert M Gates said "I don't think it does any arm-waving. I don't think it does any exaggeration of the threat."
Maybe just a little.®
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The report is just that, a report. It is required by Congress but no one actually makes any decisions on it. In fact, we are offering to help them develop their nuclear aircraft carriers: http://www.defence.pk/forums/showthread.php?p=73351
It's all crap, crap I tell you. Never believe the warmongers....
Don't forget 2001
Remember the spy plane incident in 2001? There was a concentrated DoS attack on many US institutions (but not the military) that originated from the PRC.
Oh yeah, the PLA is bigger than the United State total population.
Building a Better Beast
The US and China will go to war over oil.
The Communists have not forgotten the manifesto and China will act to reduce and remove US and European influence in favor of their own to obtain access to cheap resources to sell plastic to the US and Europe.
The military budget in China is higher than all of the money spent by both the US and the USSR during the entire cold war.
When the US and China go to war China will war with weapons built and improved upon using money provided by the greed of the top 10% wealthiest in the US and Europe.
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