China vs. Taiwan

[hawkeye87]

:daumen: passt grad dazu: von <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=May&x=20050504112145dmslahrellek0.3731806&t=is/is-latest.html">http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/displ ... atest.html</a><!-- m -->

U.S. Military Can Meet Any Mission Worldwide, General Myers Says
Chairman of Joint Chiefs says threat assessment changes constantly
The U.S. military can carry out operations worldwide and prevail in anything it is asked to do, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"The message I'm sending to Congress is that the United States military can fulfill its tasks under the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy and the National Military Strategy, and we will be successful and prevail in anything that our nation asks us to do under those strategies and that's the bottom line," Air Force General Richard B. Myers said May 3 at the Pentagon.

Myers submitted his annual, classified risk assessment on U.S. military capabilities to Congress May 2. It is an examination of the worldwide security situation the United States faces and its capabilities to respond.

"We will prevail. The timelines [for winning a new conflict] may have to be extended and we may have to use additional resources but that doesn't matter because we're going to be successful in the end," Myers said. [...]

also zumindest navy und air force sind in der lage, einen weiteren konflikt ohne grøssere probleme zu bewæltigen, denn diese beiden teilstreitkræfte sind durch die operationen im irak im gegensatz zu army und marine corps nicht angeschlagen.

2004 hat die navy ihre einsatzbereitschaft schon einmal demonstriert: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.airpower.at/news04/0815_summerpulse04/index.html">http://www.airpower.at/news04/0815_summ ... index.html</a><!-- m -->