#PRC: #USAF: Less than ready for kinetic conflict. Bill Gertz, national security correspondent for The Washington Times and author of Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy, Gordon Chang
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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#PRC: #USAF: Less than ready for kinetic conflict. Bill Gertz, national security correspondent for The Washington Times and author of Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy, Gordon Chang
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/sep/13/inside-ring-air-force-pressed-retool-china-war/
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| 0:35.4 | This is CBSI on the world, I'm John Batchett. |
| 0:37.6 | With Gordon Chang, I'm Gordon Chi Chang, my colleague and co-host. |
| 0:41.1 | And we welcome Bill Gertz, our colleague, National Security Correspondent, |
| 0:45.0 | Washington Times author of most recently, deceiving the sky inside Communist China's drive |
| 0:50.6 | for global supremacy. That global supremacy is much on the mind of the United States Air Force. |
| 0:56.7 | A recent article points to the testimony of the Secretary of the Air Force, Mr. Kendall. |
| 1:03.0 | And this quote, deterrence is the goal, but deterrence rests firmly on our readiness and ability |
| 1:09.2 | to win, said the Secretary of the Air Force. No one wants a great power conflict, |
| 1:14.0 | no one can predict when one might occur, but come at may, and we must be as ready as we can be, |
| 1:20.5 | now, tomorrow, and every day. Bill, a very good evening to you. Mr. Kendall is being very diplomatic. |
| 1:25.8 | What's he telling us? Good evening, too. |
| 1:28.4 | Good evening, John. Thanks for having me on. This was a September 5th memo to all Air Force |
| 1:35.9 | Airmen and Space Force Guardians telling them that to be ready for what he said was a fight |
| 1:42.8 | unlike anything all of us serving today have ever seen. So he's anticipating that because of |
| 1:49.5 | the Chinese military buildup, which he said is focused on both conventional and nuclear forces |
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