US Military Leader: China Likely Wants To Overwhelm Taiwan Quickly With Massive Attack, Calls For Plan To Flood Region With Unmanned Air, Sea Drones
US Indo-Pacific Commander: “They want to offer the world a short, sharp war so that it is a fait accompli before the world can get their act together".
INDO-PACIFIC - During an interview with The Washington Post, the new head of Indo-Pacific Command (Asia region) said that he believes China intends to overwhelm Taiwan with a quick, massive attack, overwhelming the island before the world can "get their act together" and is calling for the United States to carry out a strategy that he called "Hellscape" where the U.S. would immediately flood the region with thousands of over and under-the-water drones of various types.
“They want to offer the world a short, sharp war so that it is a fait accompli before the world can get their act together,” the paper cited Admiral Samuel Paparo as saying. He added, My job is to ensure that between now and 2027 and beyond, the U.S. military and the allies are capable of prevailing.”
The key to countering an attack by China with little warning, he told the news agency, is the U.S. Strategy called "Hellscape" which would involve deploying thousands of unmanned drones, including unmanned surface vessels, aerial drones, and submarines to the Taiwan Strait as soon as Chinese "invasion" forces are detecting moving toward the island of Taiwan.
This, he said, would give U.S. forces, and "partner forces" the time needed to put together a proper response to the invasion.
"I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities,” he told the paper.
Although he told the paper he isn't able to divulge the details of the strategy, he said that it's "real and it's deliverable".
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