As one guy on Weibo put it — “your soldiers may have wills of steel, but our steel has a will of its own!”
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As one guy on Weibo put it — “your soldiers may have wills of steel, but our steel has a will of its own!”
What is really crazy to me is that if we take out the stealth fighters you basically have F-18 vs Su-27 or in an Air Force comparison F-15/F-16 vs Su-27/J-10. The majority of these both countries air forces are still advanced versions of Cold War era designs.
Remember the US does not have a long range fighter since the F-14D was retired. Those J-15T operating from the Fujian must be damned scary for the US Navy. They can out range and out carry anything they have.
Only thing that would make it better would be some WS-15 engines.
Only thing that would make it better would be some WS-15 engines.
Suddenly I can understand why Mark Milley did what he did in Sept 2024. You do not want to fight an arch enemy when you have these lot of dumbass civil official as your boss.
Are you telling me that he went from axing uniformed man to axing uniformed men?
American GOs and FOs are generally speaking promoted on the basis of their ability to manage and administer large bureaucracies.
You don't get to be a 2 star division CG in the USMC or US Army — nevermind a 3 or 4 star — unless you've demonstrated an ability to command at the brigade/regiment, battalion/squadron, and company/troop levels already. It's actually fairly akin to how Chinese leaders are promoted: you don't get to lead at the state/party or deputy state/party level unless you've proven yourself at the provincial, prefectural, county and township levels first (unless maybe if you're Wang Huning).
The illustrious Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has never so much as commanded even at the company or troop level (~100-150 pax).
So you can just imagine the amount of cringe a bunch of GOs and FOs with ~30-40 years of TIS and tens of thousands of servicemembers under their commands are feeling after being lectured on "warrior ethos" by a sycophantic TV show host who've never led a formation larger than a platoon.