How prepared are we? Today we are lead by an administration who never served in the military, who picks his top generals based on his own difference of opinion. One of the questions posed to the top military leaders may have been, "if required are you prepared to fire upon American civilians". That would be tough to answer since the status of those people was unknown. Such as; are the armed and what national threat do they pose. There is a law which prevents the use of the military in engaging into combat with America's own citizens. However, under the war powers act this is possible or under the existing presidential directive, which provides for defending against terrorism both foreign and domistic.
Recently, a growing distrust has been mounting over the administrations ability to make decisions related to our national security. This distrust extends to allied countries as well, with the ISIS/ISIL problems in the South-east. America sees an administration who fails to secure our boarders from intrusion of illegal aliens and mounting tension over suspected ISIL groups on the Mexican side of the boarder.
Recently, China had announced it had launched a missile from 40 miles out of our coastal lines, and was able to get an ship equipped with electronic counter-measures within range to intercept U.S. Communications. Also, close enough to have fired upon the United States mainland. In Lebenon the fact that nine planes are missing have surfaced. Those planes went missing during the Iraq war period. The planes could be used by terror groups to launch attacks on the U.S. In my opinion that demonstrates potiential threat from the air, land and sea; with very little security improvement since 9/11. Even though our nations National Response Plan have been improved our protection measures from external threats are at best marginally improved. The air national guard may now be able to respond faster to incidents, the ability to detect those threats is questioned, and once a threat is found can they take action to stop it in a timely manner. Currently, it may take upto 30 minutes or so to receive authorization to stop inbound threats.
As it applies to our strategic anti-ballistic weapons, in order to stop close-in attacks from a missle platform; we might as well be Peral Harbor all over again, as currently it isn't even predicted or anticipated a attack could be upon us without first seeing it. I know of no costal-line anti-balistic systems in place to deture a launch from a ship or submarine.
This administration has yet to address the leaks that may have been released on our military capability or possible secret technologies. From prior secret information loses China as been stated to likely been able to develop a stealth aircraft of their own. Question is can we see their planes, after all they would have likely improved on countermeasures that that would make it harder to see on radar. But, isn't that the purpose of stealth.
Perhaps, the idea of complete theater dominance is no longer in the vantage of the U. S. and our next war maybe without the element of surprise. Thanks to ineffective policies and lack of working intelligence?? Or is it just this administrations deliberate undermining of our nations capability. If so then, who has bought out the administration.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October and November, the head of its naval forces said.
The armed forces have boosted their military training and test drills since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which Russia considers in its traditional sphere of influence.
The 12-meter long Bulava, or mace, has undergone numerous tests, some successful, and can deliver an impact of up to 100 times the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.
Naval Commander-in-Chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov said the test launch had been carried out from the White Sea and that the test missile had hit its target in Russia's far east.
"In October and November of this year, the naval fleet will carry out two more launches with two rocket cruisers equipped with ballistic missiles," Interfax quoted Chirkov as saying.
A Bulava missile weighs 36.8 tonnes and can travel 8,000 km (5,000 miles) and hold 6-10 nuclear warheads.
(Reporting by Thomas Grove; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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