China Trains For ‘Short War’ With Japan

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCjnBhCn182fKHbFwzqSQyrY_Bi4ubPwA4onOHhxgbHcIIWQfsX6s1of9QubIdvyZX2DwCajcGgH3e0m9B6K05LVxJl2LHDcIuuR340dpTiHw9WZmcDNPovf40gOI2zMVT78j3r_LOCggV/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCjnBhCn182fKHbFwzqSQyrY_Bi4ubPwA4onOHhxgbHcIIWQfsX6s1of9QubIdvyZX2DwCajcGgH3e0m9B6K05LVxJl2LHDcIuuR340dpTiHw9WZmcDNPovf40gOI2zMVT78j3r_LOCggV/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chinese marines assault a beach during the Mission Action 2013 exercise. Xinhua Photo</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Navy Official: China Training For ‘Short Sharp War’ With Japan -- USNI News</b></span></div><br />China has long trained for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan during military exercises but has expanded its training to include a similar attack on Japanese holdings in the East China Sea, according the chief of intelligence of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLEET).<br /><br />As part of China’s Mission Action 2013 exercise — a massive exercise between the all branches of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — the military trained for taking the Senkaku Islands, said Capt. James Fannell, deputy chief of staff intelligence and information operations for PACFLEET.<br /><br />“We witnessed the massive amphibious and cross military region enterprise — Mission Action 2013,” Fannell said at the West 2014 conference on Feb. 13 in San Diego, Calif.<br />“[We] concluded that the PLA has been given the new task to be able to conduct a short sharp war to destroy Japanese forces in the East China Sea following with what can only be expected a seizure of the Senkakus or even a southern Ryukyu [islands] — as some of their academics say.”<br /><br /><b><a href="http://news.usni.org/2014/02/18/navy-official-china-training-short-sharp-war-japan">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> All armies train for war ....but China has raised it to a level that is causing concern among it`s neighbors .... Japan included.

China Trains For ‘Short War’ With Japan

Chinese marines assault a beach during the Mission Action 2013 exercise. Xinhua Photo Navy Official: China Training For ‘Short Sharp War’ Wi...

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