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Concerns over the West’s chances to defeat China
As tensions mount between China and the West, there’s growing concern that the US and Australia don’t have what it takes to defeat China.
JamieSeidel
news.com.au
May 1, 2021 10:09pm
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While the comparative performance of missiles is not known, what is known is that Western – and in particular Australian – warships carry relatively few of them. This will limit deployment endurance. Picture: ADFSource:Supplied
“We lose a lot of people. We lose a lot of equipment. We usually fail to achieve our objective.”
David Ochmanek, a RAND warfare analyst and former deputy assistant secretary of defence, was damning of the West’s ability to defend Taiwan as far back as 2019.
“In our games, when we fight Russia and China, ‘blue’ (the West) gets its arse handed to it,” he declared.
This shouldn’t have been entirely unexpected.
The purpose of war games isn’t to win. It’s to learn.
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