June 30, 2004

Don't forget about China

Looks like there's going to be some nice sabre-rattling in the Pacific this July...

The exercise, codenamed Operation Summer Pulse 04, is expected to bring seven aircraft carrier strike groups, or CSGs, to waters a safe distance off the Chinese coastline -- but within striking distance -- after mid-July, The Straits Times reported Wednesday.

This will be the first time in U.S. naval history for seven of the navy's 12 CSGs to be sent to one region.

Let's not forget...China is still an enemy. If China ever decides to intervene in Taiwan, we're going to have a full-scale war on our hands.

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China who?? By the way, is there anyone left to pilot those ships?

Posted by: Jakester at June 30, 2004 12:28 PM

Seven carrier groups off China in July? I was highly skeptical.

So I googled "Operation Summer Pulse 04" and got this:

http://www.cffc.navy.mil/dodrelease.htm

Straits Times seems to have hosed it up (language issues, or hyping a more sensational story?), UPI didn't bother to check it out thoroughly, and the local news people ran with it. Lazy.

When reading things such as this, always check with globalsecurity.org, as they list the training and deployment status of every ship, brigade, and MEF in the US armed forces:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/index.html

Came here from Malkin's blog, like your site.

Posted by: odawg at June 30, 2004 03:31 PM