The following is a response from Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief.
If Nyquist and Adams had any military experience at all, they would see that this entire scenario is bogus. As a former Marine officer, schooled in the art of amphibious landings, I can tell you that you can’t do a coastal invasion efficiently from container ships, if at all. Here are the major flaws:
1. There’s no way to hide a convoy of 900 container ships coming across the ocean and anchoring off the California coast. They would be interdicted well before they got here. US satellites monitor container ship traffic in sea lanes and this huge cluster of ships, even if spread out a bit, would be obvious.
2. Even if Chinese troops descended by rope nets as they did in WWII, you still have to have over a thousand landing craft capable of coming alongside to get these troops into shallow water. How are you going to hide those large boats on container ships? And, it would take days, sitting out their like ducks in a row, unloading them.
3. And what about all the armored vehicles and artillery necessary for an invasion? How do you hide that on container ships and get it to shore? The transcript claims that after they secure the port of Long Beach, other long distance ships will come in and offload armor. Well, how do they get across the ocean without being discovered, and if they wait until the “beaches are secure” it is still going to take a couple of weeks to arrive. That’s no way to run an invasion—as if the US is going to sit there paralyzed until the Chicom’s ships arrive.
4. Hiding missiles inside 40' shipping containers is feasible, but the length limitation would mean they would only be short range missiles targeting only California bases. This would not stop the US from mobilizing counter invasion troops from other parts of the country.
5. The cover story about Shanghai is bogus too. It’s public knowledge that hundreds of container ships are anchored offshore and NOT moving into port, because everything is shut down. No container ships have been loaded for over a month.
6. As for stockpiles of invasion supplies hidden away in the US, county by county, that’s bogus on its face. There isn’t enough empty warehouse space in the US to accommodate the thousands of tons of military equipment necessary to invade and occupy the nation, let alone keep it secret.
7. And why would they wait to carry out domestic sabotage on the grid and other infrastructure when they have EMP capabilities via ICBM’s? And why use short range missiles from container ships when you have ICBMs (that combined with Russia) can decapitate every military base in the USA?
I’m embarrassed for these guys having bought into such an unthinking idea!
The following is a response from Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief.
ReplyDeleteIf Nyquist and Adams had any military experience at all, they would see that this entire scenario is bogus. As a former Marine officer, schooled in the art of amphibious landings, I can tell you that you can’t do a coastal invasion efficiently from container ships, if at all. Here are the major flaws:
1. There’s no way to hide a convoy of 900 container ships coming across the ocean and anchoring off the California coast. They would be interdicted well before they got here. US satellites monitor container ship traffic in sea lanes and this huge cluster of ships, even if spread out a bit, would be obvious.
2. Even if Chinese troops descended by rope nets as they did in WWII, you still have to have over a thousand landing craft capable of coming alongside to get these troops into shallow water. How are you going to hide those large boats on container ships? And, it would take days, sitting out their like ducks in a row, unloading them.
3. And what about all the armored vehicles and artillery necessary for an invasion? How do you hide that on container ships and get it to shore? The transcript claims that after they secure the port of Long Beach, other long distance ships will come in and offload armor. Well, how do they get across the ocean without being discovered, and if they wait until the “beaches are secure” it is still going to take a couple of weeks to arrive. That’s no way to run an invasion—as if the US is going to sit there paralyzed until the Chicom’s ships arrive.
4. Hiding missiles inside 40' shipping containers is feasible, but the length limitation would mean they would only be short range missiles targeting only California bases. This would not stop the US from mobilizing counter invasion troops from other parts of the country.
5. The cover story about Shanghai is bogus too. It’s public knowledge that hundreds of container ships are anchored offshore and NOT moving into port, because everything is shut down. No container ships have been loaded for over a month.
6. As for stockpiles of invasion supplies hidden away in the US, county by county, that’s bogus on its face. There isn’t enough empty warehouse space in the US to accommodate the thousands of tons of military equipment necessary to invade and occupy the nation, let alone keep it secret.
7. And why would they wait to carry out domestic sabotage on the grid and other infrastructure when they have EMP capabilities via ICBM’s? And why use short range missiles from container ships when you have ICBMs (that combined with Russia) can decapitate every military base in the USA?
I’m embarrassed for these guys having bought into such an unthinking idea!