World War III Coming Soon, U.S. Military Woefully Unprepared
by Gordon G. Chang • August 6, 2024 at 5:00 am
"The Commission finds that DoD's business practices, byzantine research and development and procurement systems, reliance on decades-old military hardware, and culture of risk avoidance reflect an era of uncontested military dominance... Such methods are not suited to today's strategic environment.... The U.S. public are largely unaware of the dangers the United States faces or the costs (financial and otherwise) required to adequately prepare," — Commission on the National Defense Strategy, July 29, 2024.
"The Department's usual laser focus on mission has been supplanted by Marxist-inspired instruction, an eradication of meritocracy in favor of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion promotion programs, with an extra emphasis placed on administration fetishes like climate change... The Chinese, Russian, North Korean, and Iranian militaries are not burdened by such nonsense." — Blaine Holt, former US Air Force brigadier general, to Gatestone Institute, August 5, 2024.
Unfortunately, Biden has not addressed the American people in a comprehensive and meaningful way about the greatest threat they face.
The Commission on the National Defense Strategy is clear on what must be done: "A bipartisan 'call to arms' is urgently needed so that the United States can make the major changes and significant investments now rather than wait for the next Pearl Harbor or 9/11."
It is unlikely, however, that bad actors will give America a decade more to prepare.
General Mike Minihan, the chief of the Air Force's Air Mobility Command, predicted in a memorandum to his command leaked in January of last year that America would be in a war with China "in 2025."
Xi Jinping can see the United States is starting to stir; why would he wait for his foe to get ready?
"We are closer today to World War III than we've been since the Second World War," said former President Donald Trump at the Believers' Summit in West Palm Beach on July 26.
Trump hyperbole? No.
The former president is not alone in thinking this way. "China and Russia's 'no-limits' partnership, formed in February 2022 just days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has only deepened and broadened to include a military and economic partnership with Iran and North Korea, each of which presents its own significant threat to U.S. interests," states the Commission on the National Defense Strategy in its 114-page report released three days after Trump spoke. "This new alignment of nations opposed to U.S. interests creates a real risk, if not likelihood, that conflict anywhere could become a multitheater or global war."
