With escalating tensions on multiple fronts and the threat of nuclear strikes rising, President Joe Biden’s foreign policy blunders coupled with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley’s apparent woke neutering of the armed forces led one senior commander to warn: “The big one is coming.”
The suggestion came as commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom), U.S. Navy Adm. Charles A. Richard, addressed the Naval Submarine League at the 2022 Annual Symposium and Industry Update in Arlington, Va., Wednesday. Much like how Biden’s bragging of “historic sanctions” had done little to deter Russia from invading Ukraine, Richard contended when it came to China, “The ship is slowly sinking.”
“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” the admiral stated. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested in a long time.”
“As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking,” he told the gathering regarding the danger posed by China’s nuclear capabilities. “It is sinking slowly, but it is sinking, as fundamentally they are putting capability in the field faster than we are.”
Former President Donald Trump had taken measures to rebuild the military and often raised concerns over the depleted forces, but under Biden’s leadership, Austin and Milley have employed Marxist training on diversity, equity and inclusion and lowered physical requirements as recruitment numbers have plummeted.
“As those curves keep going,” Richard said of China’s growing force, “it isn’t going to matter how good our [operating plan] is or how good our commanders are, or how good our horses are–we’re not going to have enough of them. And that is a very near-term problem.”
The admiral pointed to a mission-focused military of bygone years as he argued, “We used to know how to move fast, and we have lost the art of that.”
“We have to do some rapid, fundamental change in the way we approach the defense of this nation,” he told the symposium, harkening back over 60 years, “The Air Force went from a request, almost written on a napkin…when they figured out in the late 1950s that the Soviet integrated air defense systems were getting to the point that the B-52 just wasn’t going to make it in…and so, they envisioned what a standoff weapon looks like,” describing the creation of the AGM-28 Hound Dog cruise missile.
“We have got to get back into the business of not talking about how we are going to mitigate our assumed eventual failure,” Richard suggested as he contended policymakers needed to return to the way questions used to be asked like, “What’s it going to take? Is it money? Is it people? Do you need authorities? What risk?”
“I will tell you, the current situation is vividly illuminating what nuclear coercion looks like and how you, or how you don’t stand up to that,” he said and warned if change didn’t happen, “China is simply going to out-compete us, and Russian isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.”
Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping recently made the case publicly in a letter to Biden for greater relations between his nation and the United States, stating, “Closer communication and cooperation between us will help bring greater stability and certainty to the world, and promote world peace and development.”
“China,” he wrote, “stands ready to work with the United States to find the right way to get along with each other in the new era on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation. This will benefit not only our two countries but also the whole world.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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