China Committee wants Congress to establish a Taiwan weapons stockpile

China Committee wants Congress to establish a Taiwan weapons stockpile Guest Post by Todd Pierce Prescript: later today, when it finishes uploading, I should have an oral history interview with Col Larry Wilkerson posted on my Project for the Study of American Militarism YouTube page in which he discusses the war preparations against Iraq before 9/11, under Cheney/Rumsfeld, et al. But to the article below: Who can disagree with the good old Hoover Institution, home of incessant war incitement against Russia, China, Iran, . . . . "Jacquelyn Schneider, who leads the wargaming and crisis initiative at the right-leaning Hoover Institution, stressed the difficulty of conducting campaign war games like the committee did with Taiwan, as they don’t account for classified capabilities. “The biggest difficulty in campaign war games, and where campaign war games did not reveal what happened between Ukraine and Russia, is it’s very difficult to model public will and that really does affect how wars transpire,” Schneider told Defense News. > > "She noted the outcomes highlighted issues like munitions shortages that the military and defense policy analysts are already aware of. Nonetheless, Schneider called them “an incredibly evocative experience,” adding that “if you want to convince people who have never really thought about this problem that there’s significant difficulties awaiting if you don’t preposition munitions there, then war games are extremely compelling.” I know something about what it means for the US to "preposition munitions.” The high-level officers of the 321st Theatre Area Materiel Management Center that I was assigned to for Gulf War I as their sole “DAS3 Computer Repairman,” which was the computer system which maintained all the Army ammo stockages in the War Theatre, knew before we left Baton Rouge in August 1990 that the DAS3 Computer had already been permanently reassigned to Saudi Arabia and would not be coming back to the US. In fact, much of the unit was not intended to return to the US for at least two years as plans were already in effect to use GW I as pretext for a permanent stationing of the US military in the heart of the Mideast. So we were part of Operations Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and whatever they called the aftermath which immediately commenced with the 321st establishing Logistic Bases in Kuwait, and expanding those already established in Saudi Arabia (to UBL’s chagrin, leading to the al Qaeda bombing of Khobar Towers, which we tried to pin on Iran, I recall). To keep this short, months after the “War” had ended, and we were one of the few remaining units in Saudia Arabia, with our members hounding Congress to get us home, the unit left a detachment behind, returned to Baton Rouge, and carried on the "Mission” by satellite from their. My computer remained in SA as munitions were continuously added to as prepositioned. Fortunately, a replacement for me found out unit as he wanted to stay in SA for another year, with a total of two years for the detachment we left behind, and then rotated people through that continuously as a permanently assigned unit in SA. So when 9/11 came along, we were already “leaning forward” for a War of Aggression against Iraq, and at least 6 other countries as has been divulged by Wesley Clark and others, with almost everything we needed for that already “in Theatre.” Which became a totally reliable indicator of where the US intended to “wage aggressive war.” Like with our prepositioned munitions in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and other countries near the Russian border. Which, unless Russia didn’t have an intelligence service to analyze what it means when the US prepositions munitions near a border, would lead to the conclusion that Russia was on our “target list.” With Trump having accelerated that “buildup” far beyond what was there previously, leading to Poland’s proposal to name our main Logistics Base there, Camp Trump! I suspect China will quickly understand what the China War Hawks of the House Republicans who set this Committee up as a condition for supporting McCarthy, with their right-wing, Goldwater/Scoop Jackson Conservative inspired, Democratic Party counterparts in tow, intended with this Committee. Which is not only to incite war on China, but to accelerate preparations for it. As Trump had already begun, in obvious preparations for a “Fire and Fury Campaign” he so favored with his massive War Buildup/Initiation Program, against all of Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, at varying stages of preparation when he left office. Which Biden followed up on, as part of the aforementioned “faction” in the Democrats.