A four-star Air Force general sent a memo to the officers he commands informing them of his belief, and the preparations expected for a U.S. war with China by 2025.
Gen. Michael A. Minihan, who heads Air Mobility Command and oversees the service’s fleet of transport and refueling aircraft, sent the memo on Friday, though dated Feb. 1, 2023, that said the conditions will be ripe for war for Chinese leader Xi Jinping in 2025. His assessment provides a much shorter timeline than other Pentagon officials, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.“I hope I am wrong,” Minihan wrote, which was first reported by NBC News. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.
By the end of February, everyone under his command with weapons qualifications will “fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most,” the memo said. “Aim for the head.” "The National Defense Strategy makes clear that China is the pacing challenge for the Department of Defense and our focus remains on working alongside allies and partners to preserve a peaceful, free and open Indo-Pacific," Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon spokesman, told the Washington Examiner in a statement.
“We’ve seen increased activity in aerial activity,” Austin said at a Jan. 11 news conference alongside Japanese officials. “We’ve seen increased surface vessel activity around Taiwan. And again, we believe that they endeavor to establish a new normal, but whether or not that means that an invasion is imminent, I seriously doubt that.”
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