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My written testimony for today's @USCC_GOV hearing on cross-Strait deterrence is now available on the commission's web site. You can see it here: https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2021-02/Thomas_Shugart_Testimony.pdf https://
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Some perspective:China apparently hit a moving ship target in the South China Sea with a missile fired from Qinghai province, roughly 2300km away.This would be the equivalent of the U.S.
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A few thoughts about tugs:As I've been reading Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil, a 1952 book about logistics in the Pacific in WWII, I've been struck how often the topic
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This @SCMPNews article, which posits that China's South China Sea bases are "vulnerable to attack" has been getting some attention lately...https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3112419/beijings-south-china-sea-mili
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Here's a 3-part axiom I think US defense thinkers & planners should consider in devising concepts for the defense of US/allied vital interests in the Western Pacific.Plans for major conflict
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China's growing bomber fleet?A little over 2 years ago, I put up this thread about China's fleet of H-6 bombers. Counting them using open-source imagery, I determined that they numbered
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Some Sunday fun:The @EveOnline experience: what I observed participating in virtual fleet battles in one of the world's largest massively multiplayer online games - and what it could mean for
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While you're all hanging out at your computers clicking "refresh" for election news: a few thoughts on this recent response to @AaronFriedberg in @ForeignAffairs:https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1320456512616255488 Th
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Ok, folks. The 2020 China Military Power report is out!Here are a few thoughts on some of the interesting tidbits (IMO): https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/01/2002488689/-1/-1/1/2020-DOD-CHINA-MILITARY-POWER-REPORT-FINAL.PDF First up: overa
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Watching a few episodes of the new Mars-mission show Away only reinforces for me why future interplanetary missions need to have submariners on board, not necessarily pilots.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-09-04/net
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Some thoughts on the PRC’s growing IRBM force:I recently pointed out what I thought was the biggest news in the recently-released 2020 China Military Power report: an apparent more-than-doubling of
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This interesting article by @IanJStorey has gotten attention lately, mainly for the idea that perhaps China's SCS islands are so shoddily built that the PLAAF is unable/unwilling to use their
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