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A national security official under Joe Biden who reviewed the document is said to have turned pale on realising Beijing had “redundancy after redundancy” for “every trick we had up our sleeve”, The New York Times reported.

Last year, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, said that “we lose every time” in the Pentagon’s war games against China, and predicted the Asian country’s hypersonic missiles could destroy aircraft carriers within minutes.

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[–] 14 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

Please read the article. The government and Pentagon themselves are saying they will lose.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    From a different comment in this thread:

    The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.

    Why are you taking trump and kegsworth word?

    They're fear mongering

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It’s not fear mongering. It’s a real area-denial weapons system capability that the PRC initially deployed in 1991, and upgraded the terminal weapon into a hypersonic glide body in 2015. Lob a few of those at a CVN and it’s probably going to the bottom of the ocean.

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