This is John Batcher, conversation with Captain Jim Finel, US Navy Retired Intelligence Officer,

especially in Oceania and the Pacific.

What shall watch for when the Chinese are ready to invade or take over or crush Taiwan?

What to watch for from commercial satellites and from reporting?

Jim is very careful to emphasize in detail what has worked before will work again such as the preparation before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Jim Finel, U.S. Navy, Captain Intelligence, retired.

More of this later.

Yeah, I think, or John, the first thing we should look for is the movement of the PRC and the PLA's fuel

reserves and stocks and ammunition. There would be some kind of tell, some kind of

revelation through commercial imagery of the movement of fuel to fuel depots,

forward pushing fuel, things of that nature.

And then, you know, you would expect to see the movement of ground troops and things of that nature.

And for the rocket forces, some kind of dispersal of missile batteries out of garrison.

That'll be a little bit harder to show because those garrison sites are in-covered garrisons now

so it'd be very difficult for commercial imagery to be able to detect this but that's something that you'd want to look for.

So logistics...

There are...

Go ahead.

We should watch for a logistics then, that's what you're watching.

Correct.