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2019-12-02 China-Japan-Koreas

[The Gold Institute for International Strategy] With our Mid-East policy in disarray, China and Russia have not missed a beat and are stepping in to fill the gaps. It is clear the intention of their advances in technological research and development (R&D), military and otherwise, is to surpass the U.S.’s global distribution and ultimately become the dominant player in this area. As recently as May 2019, it has been reported that U.S. allies in the region have been meeting with the Chinese to become a Cyber hub for their Belt and Road Initiative.

While President Trump has been engaging China on trade talks, Xi Jinping has continued the largest military buildup of the last hundred years. On October 1st China’s military exhibited to the public much of their high-tech weaponry, of which about half have never been seen before, leading many to question what they are not showing.

With Russia's hypersonic weapons and China’s cyber and space capabilities, it is no longer enough to keep up with the Jinpings, but rather is the time for the U.S. to step up and leave these questionable characters in our technological rearview mirrors. One such opportunity for the U.S. to take a significant step forward is with the upcoming merger of Raytheon Co (RTN) and United Technologies Corp (UTX). The mergers of such companies would create innovation powerhouses that would not only place the U.S. on track but give the necessary bandwidth to surpass competing nations in relatively short form.

In 1889 the commissioner of the U.S. patent office, Charles H. Duell, was widely quoted as saying, "Everything that can be invented has been invented," something that in 2019 we know is farthest from the truth. The race for technological advances within the defense sector has a far greater impact than in any other sector. In an age where there is a renewed weapons race between the U.S. and its adversaries, mergers like this one between Raytheon and United Technologies become ever more significant.

Just recently, a Saudi oil field was attacked by 18 drones allegedly from Iran. No longer are attacks of this precision that have global ramifications only able to come from superpowers like the U.S. or Russia or China, but also now by rather small countries like Iran.

China has emerged as a global science and technology leader, with strong funding in research and development (R&D), which from 2000 ‐ 2016 has risen to almost 25.1% in global R&D. Russia is leading the race in hypersonic technologies, something that the United States has yet to be able to defend against, and Iran has placed a great deal of their efforts in weaponizing Cyber and EMP. The U.S. is currently in catch up mode.

With every passing day, month and year, our weapon systems and those of our adversaries become more and more advanced and our systems more antiquated. Just recently, it was reported that Strategic Automated Command and Control Systems (CACCS), the communications system that controls the U.S. nuclear program would no longer use 8inch floppy disks. Arguably our most important weapons program is using a system that was created 50 years ago when the Oldsmobile Cutlass was the bestselling American car.

With the 21st century weapons race well underway and insufficient to keep up with the Jinpings technologically, we must also surpass the Jinpings in research and development (R&D).

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Does anyone know how to play this game?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-02 00:31|| 2019-12-02 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 As long as USA universities are concerned with integration of womyn & minorities in STEM, USA is going to eat China's dust.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-02 00:38|| 2019-12-02 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 In fact, let me take it a step further. Drop the policy of high school grades determining access to higher education - really intelligent/creative people not doing well in schools run by third-raters.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-02 01:13|| 2019-12-02 01:13|| Front Page Top

#4 The Skunkworks lads delivered innovation unfettered to your military and spooks free from administrative buffoonery for years.

In my opinion, fancy tech alone does not win battles. Resolve and willingness to descend to levels of crazy does. Partly the reason the west has been stumbling indecisively in the mid-east for so long.

As for the chinks, their only war xp for decades has been smashing in tibetan monk skulls with Norinco56 butts and sneaking into neighbours' backyards to build plastic sheds. China's advantage over the west will never be fancy weapons of war.

If there is any advantage on their side it's the west's unreasonable adherence to some faux-altruistic tenet of propriety in combat, rules of engagement, humanist conventions and anti-confrontationism.

It's not that Iran,China, Turkey, whatever are becoming stronger. It's that the USA, the only real 'Annihilator level' military is mired in faulty policy and powerplays within.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-02 04:26|| 2019-12-02 04:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey we need to spend more on the deep-staters favourite cutouts for military "super weapons".

Worked for hitler...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-02 05:59|| 2019-12-02 05:59|| Front Page Top

#6 One such opportunity for the U.S. to take a significant step forward is with the upcoming merger of Raytheon Co (RTN) and United Technologies Corp (UTX). The mergers of such companies would create innovation powerhouses that would not only place the U.S. on track but give the necessary bandwidth to surpass competing nations in relatively short form.

I've seen a lot of corporate mergers result in nothing but big payoffs for the stockholders of the company being swallowed and layoffs for their employees. If there is any innovative capability in either of the two companies they can damn well develop it on their own or else stop crowing about how great they are.

Pull our companies out of China, stop giving them our intellectual property, keep our people from being bribed by the commie bastards. IOW, treat them like we treated the USSR. Then we'll see what kind of threat they pose.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-02 11:10|| 2019-12-02 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Letting McDonnel Douglas get absorbed into Boeing doesn't look like it's doing too well these days.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2019-12-02 11:37|| 2019-12-02 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 In R&D bigger doesn't mean better, quite the contrary.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-02 11:45|| 2019-12-02 11:45|| Front Page Top

#9 p.s. Once heard a former CO of Israel Military Industry say "In my time security had orders to escort any MBA from the territory -- politely, but firmly".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-02 11:52|| 2019-12-02 11:52|| Front Page Top

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