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Speaking of runaways, how frequently is the one on Woody Island used? I haven't seen much footage of planes taking off/landing.
 
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So I realize this source makes 90% of its income by selling celebrity gossip to bored British people but this report wouldn't be that far fetched given that the P-8 captain in the CNN video kept talkimg about a "ground based radar"
 
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So I realize this source makes 90% of its income by selling celebrity gossip to bored British people but this report wouldn't be that far fetched given that the P-8 captain in the CNN video kept talkimg about a "ground based radar"
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I'm amused at all the hoopla in the Belt Way and in the lame stream media. China has territorial disputes with other SCS nations, so it placed Marines and sensors on their rocks-turned-islands. So what? Why the Chicken Little? As General George C. Scott Patton elegantly put it, "fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity," and I'm sure firing solutions for military and duo-use installations on China's artificial islands are already in US military computers.
 
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I'm amused at all the hoopla in the Belt Way and in the lame stream media. China has territorial disputes with other SCS nations, so it placed Marines and sensors on their rocks-turned-islands. So what? Why the Chicken Little? As General George C. Scott Patton elegantly put it, "fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity," and I'm sure firing solutions for military and duo-use installations on China's artificial islands are already in US military computers.
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Well in this case, fixed fortifications make sense as the aim is to primarily develop the area and extract as much resources as possible not conduct some fast kinetic military action.
 
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China is starting to push things. Already battered by its failures in Ukraine and Iraq, the US may seek to "prove" its still a coherent political force in the world by taking a tough line on China.
 
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China is starting to push things. Already battered by its failures in Ukraine and Iraq, the US may seek to "prove" its still a coherent political force in the world by taking a tough line on China.
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That's the media/propaganda war being waged against China at the moment. When you say China is starting to push things, it's like an impression that somehow, none of these locations China has been occupying for decades were ever armed which is not true. Furthermore, if one reads more of the article.

While posing no military threat to the U.S., the motorized artillery was within range of an island claimed by Vietnam that Hanoi has armed with various weaponry for some time, the American officials said. Vietnamese officials didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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A repost of the WSJ article here where subscription not required. Not sure if its a repost of the entire article or just more portions of it.

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