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Bismillah
The Pentagon lifted the veil of secrecy Wednesday on a new battle concept aimed at countering Chinese military efforts to deny access to areas near its territory and in cyberspace.

The Air Sea Battle concept is the start of what defense officials say is the early stage of a new Cold War-style military posture toward China.

The plan calls for preparing the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps to defeat China's "anti-access, area denial weapons," including anti-satellite weapons, cyberweapons, submarines, stealth aircraft and long-range missiles that can hit aircraft carriers at sea.

Military officials from the three services told reporters during a background briefing that the concept is not directed at a single country. But they did not answer when asked what country other than China has developed advanced anti-access arms.

A senior Obama administration official was more blunt, saying the new concept is a significant milestone signaling a new Cold War-style approach to China.

"Air Sea Battle is to China what the maritime strategy was to the Soviet Union," the official said.

During the Cold War, US naval forces around the world used a strategy of global presence and shows of force to deter Moscow's advances.

"It is a very forward-deployed, assertive strategy that says we will not sit back and be punished," the senior official said. "We will initiate."

The concept, according to defense officials, grew out of concerns that China's new precision-strike weapons threaten freedom of navigation in strategic waterways and other global commons.

Defense officials familiar with the concept said among the ideas under consideration are:

• Building a new long-range bomber.

• Conducting joint submarine and stealth aircraft operations.

• New jointly operated, long-range unmanned strike aircraft with up to 1,000-mile ranges.

• Using Air Force forces to protect naval bases and deployed naval forces.

• Conducting joint Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force strikes inside China.

• Using Air Force aircraft to deploy sea mines.

• Joint Air Force and Navy attacks against Chinese anti-satellite missiles inside China.

• Increasing the mobility of satellites to make attacks more difficult.

• Launching joint Navy and Air Force cyber-attacks on Chinese anti-access forces.

Pentagon press secretary George Little said the new office "is a hard-won and significant operational milestone in meeting emerging threats to our global access."

"This office will help guide meaningful integration of our air and naval combat capabilities, strengthening our military deterrent power, and maintaining US advantage against the proliferation of advanced military technologies and capabilities," Mr. Little said.

He noted that it is a Pentagon priority to rebalance joint forces to better deter and defeat aggression in "anti-access environments."

Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said during a visit to Asia that US forces would be reoriented toward Asia as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down. The new focus will include "enhanced military capabilities," he said without elaborating.

The military officials at the Pentagon on Wednesday did not discuss specifics of the new concept. One exception was an officer who said an example would be the use of Air Force A-10 ground attack jets to defend ships at sea from small-boat "swarm" attacks.

China in recent years has grown more assertive in waters near its shores, harassing Navy surveillance ships in the South China Sea and Yellow Sea.

China also has claimed large portions of the South China Sea as its territory. US officials said the Chinese have asserted that it is "our driveway."

The Pentagon also is concerned about China's new DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile that can hit aircraft carriers at sea. Carriers are the key power-projection capability in Asia and would be used in defending Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

"The Air Sea Battle concept will guide the services as they work together to maintain a continued US advantage against the global proliferation of advanced military technology and [anti-access/area denial] capabilities," the Pentagon said in announcing the creation of a program office for the concept.

Although the office was set up in August, the background briefing Wednesday was the first time the Pentagon officially rolled out the concept.

The Army is expected to join the concept office in the future.

One defense official said the Army is involved in cyberwarfare initiatives that would be useful for countering anti-access weapons.

"Simply put, we're talking about freedom of access in the global commons. Increasing ranges of precision fire threaten those global commons in new expanding ways," said a military official speaking on condition of anonymity. "That, in a nutshell, is what's different."

Defense officials said some administration officials opposed the new concept over concerns it would upset China. That resulted in a compromise that required military and defense officials to play down the fact that China is the central focus of the new battle plan.

A second military official said the new concept also is aimed at shifting the current US military emphasis on counterinsurgency to the anti-access threats.

The office was disclosed as President Obama sets off this week on trip to Asia designed to shore up alliances. He is set to meet Chinese President Hu Jintao in Hawaii on Saturday.

The concept grew out of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review that, in its early stages, had excluded any mention of China's growing military might.

China was added to the review after intervention by Andrew Marshall, director of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, and Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, at the time head of the Joint Forces Command.

China military specialist Richard Fisher said the new Air Sea Battle office is necessary but may be "late in the game."

"A Pentagon office focused on China's military challenges in Asia or beyond will be insufficient," said Mr. Fisher, of the International Assessment and Strategy Center. "This challenge will require Cold War levels of strategic, political and economic policy integration well beyond the Pentagon's writ."

Said former State Department China specialist John Tkacik: "This new Air Sea Battle concept is evidence that Washington is finally facing up to the real threat that China has become an adversarial military, naval and nuclear power in Asia, and that the only way to balance China is to lend the weight of US air and naval forces to our Asia-Pacific allies' ground forces."
Source: Washington Times
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/cont...12/15364.shtml

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Bismillah
The Pentagon lifted the veil of secrecy Wednesday on a new battle concept aimed at countering Chinese military efforts to deny access to areas near its territory and in cyberspace.


Source: Washington Times
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/cont...12/15364.shtml

Is this Kavkaz the jihaadi website? Why not just source the Washington Times?

Salaam,

Abu Marwan

[cenRealliat]

Is this Kavkaz the jihaadi website? Why not just source the Washington Times?

Salaam,

Abu Marwan

Do you trust kaafirs more than Chechnyans?

[7UENf0w7]

Do you trust kaafirs more than Chechnyans?

The Chechans sourced the kafirs first??? The chechans didnt write the article???


The dawn of a new boogey man is emerging - soon bad guys in movies will be cast with Asians playing red chinese instead of turbaned up Arabs.

I wonder how this will play out - a cold war style conflict seems impossible for the US and china. They cant just turn their backs to each other like Russia nad the US did - if the US economy falls, the Chinese econonmy falls and vice versa. So Embargos, and sanctions wont work - I suspect Cold War II will be played ober the internet, we will probably see more viruses like Sputznik, the one developed by Israel and the US to cripple Irans Nuke plant. The US and China will be Smiling at each other while they stab each other in the back. This will, however, be another test for the Ummah - as both powers joky for position, they will both be seeking the aid of the Muslim world - the question is... will the Muslims choose one master over the other or instead, choose to become the master once again????

[cenRealliat]

The Chechans sourced the kafirs first??? The chechans didnt write the article???

I realize. The question is, why complain about it unless you have a problem with the Chechens?

[7UENf0w7]

I realize. The question is, why complain about it unless you have a problem with the Chechens?

Maybe he has a problem with the website

[cenRealliat]

Maybe he has a problem with the website

And the website is run by... whom?

[BamSaitinypap]

...I just hope this new cold war is not fought on muslim lands while maintaining absolute peace in US and China, and also that Jihad by the muslims is not used for the benefit of these kafir powers...

[ppfpooghn]

Do you trust kaafirs more than Chechnyans?

If I quote you, should I quote you directly, or should I say, "Fulan said that Quandry said?"

It is not to do with trust, but with accuracy.

Salaam,

Abu Marwan

[ppfpooghn]

Assalamu alaikum,

There was an Arabic website called Kawkaz that was a front for al-Qaida, or al-Qaida aligned groups.

The directory /en/ in the url suggests that the main site is not an English language site.

I would prefer not to be sent to al-Qaida websites without my knowledge, especially not if all I want to do is read an article that is published in the Washington Post.


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Salaam,

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[casinobonuswer]

I prefer america over china any day of the week. That is coming from a very anti-american person like myself. Somehow I feel that if these 2 get into some sort of war either directly or indirectly I feel that Muslims will be used as pawns. I pray it never happens but our people never learn.

[ppfpooghn]

Yes. Never fight a war on your own turf.

China is a direct ally of Iran. This is one of the reasons why Israel is needed as a proxy in a war with Iran, at least initially. Israeli planes flying over Saudi Arabia could bring an Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia, this could easily draw the US directly into an Israeli-Iranian conflict. This could escalate rapidly. Perhaps this is what the Iranian MP meant earlier this week then he directly threatened the US and Israel.

This conflict is mostly rhetoric. The West has no solid evidence about Iranian nukes and we know from official US testimony before the UN on Iraqi WMDs immediately prior to the last Gulf War, just how reliable the US is when providing this type of information.

Salaam,

Abu Marwan