Showing posts with label Pacific Fleet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacific Fleet. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Sounded warning, got sacked?

November 12, 2014 China , David Larter 0 Comments
Senior Intel Officer Removed After Controversial Comments On China

David Larter, Nov. 10, 2014, Navy Times

Capt. James Fanell, the director of intelligence and information operations at U.S. Pacific Fleet, has been removed from that position by PACFLT boss Adm. Harry Harris and reassigned within the command, Navy officials confirmed.

Fanell warned during a February public appearance that a recent Chinese amphibious exercise led naval intelligence to assess that China's strategy was to be able to launch a "short, sharp war" with Japan, an unusually frank assessment about a closely watched region.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

"Loud + Weak = War-- China & Russia Are No More Impressed With Empty Bluster Today than Japan was in '41"

March 25, 2014 Admiral , China 0 Comments
Victor Davis Hanson
By Victor Davis Hanson, Mar. 25, 2014, National Review 
The Roosevelt administration once talked loudly of pivoting to Asia to thwart a rising Japan. As a token of its seriousness, in May 1940 it moved the home port of the Seventh Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor — but without beefing up the fleet’s strength.
The then-commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral James O. Richardson, an expert on the Japanese Imperial Navy, protested vehemently over such a reckless redeployment. He felt that the move might invite, but could not guard against, surprise attack.
Richardson was eventually relieved of his command and his career was ruined — even as he was later proved right when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Britain at the same time promoted a loud Singapore Strategy, trumpeting its Malaysian base as the “Gibraltar of the Pacific.” But London did not send out up-to-date planes, carriers, or gunnery to the Pacific.


Japan was not impressed. It surprise-attacked the base right after Pearl Harbor. The British surrendered Singapore in February 1942, in the most ignominious defeat in British military history.

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