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| Subject: US blueprint for war with China flawed and could spark nuclear strikes, says expert Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:12 pm | |
| THE US government might like to deny it, but Barack Obama's former intelligence chief has confirmed China is a principal target of a major US war plan.
The American plan, known in Washington as Air-Sea Battle, is strategically flawed, Australia's foremost regional defence expert, Hugh White, said, and risks escalating a US-China struggle to the level of nuclear strikes. It is also known to have angered the Chinese military, and the confirmation is likely to be viewed with displeasure in Beijing.
The confirmation was provided by Admiral Dennis Blair, a straight-talking Asia expert who until 2010 was Mr Obama's director of national intelligence. Before that he led the US Pacific Command, which represents about a fifth of the US military machine.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-blueprint-for-war-with-china-flawed-and-could-spark-nuclear-strikes-says-expert-20120808-23uom.html#ixzz2300zZ2bf
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