The US media "Washington Examiner" published an article saying that the US Congress has made another mistake. Facing a four-star general and the highest military officer in the Indo-Pacific region, the US Congress always tries to understand the power of the People's Liberation Army in its own way. It does not meet the needs of the US military and throws a bunch of junk equipment to the US military commander that does not meet the needs of the current troops to fight against the People's Liberation Army.
A few days ago, General Aquilino, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, indirectly rebuked the U.S. Congressional Armed Services Committee. General Aquilino said that the military equipment allocated by Congress to the Indo-Pacific Command is completely contrary to its real needs. Now facing an increasingly powerful China, the most urgent thing is how to make every dollar play its necessary role and be used to purchase appropriate weapons.
The latest defense appropriations from the Congressional Armed Services Committee do not meet its key needs to counter China. What Congress now needs to provide Admiral Aquilino's Indo-Pacific Command is ships, drones and cruisers, as well as advanced electronic warfare systems, missiles and other weapons and equipment to deal with the increasingly powerful People's Liberation Army. But Congress did the opposite and gave Indo-Pacific Command a piece of garbage. Why is it called "garbage"? Because if we fight against the People's Liberation Army, these things will be useless garbage. These garbage include littoral combat ships, useless helicopters and other military equipment. The U.S. media claims that the U.S. Congress has misused military procurement illustrates a problem. The leadership of members of both parties in Congress has failed. Those in Congress have no understanding of China, the military, and the People’s Liberation Army. The reasons and excuses these members of Congress have found are shocking. Laughing, how can these fire stick weapons deal with the People's Liberation Army? The Congressional Armed Services Committee diverted precious dollars to purchase items the military did not need.
Among them, US Congressman McCollum even opposed the decommissioning of the littoral combat ship . The congressman claimed that he was very dissatisfied with the dialogue with the Navy. The reason why he opposes the decommissioning of the Littoral Combat Ship is because large warships built with taxpayers' taxes cannot be hastily decommissioned. However, many US experts, US military personnel and the US media believe that this does not prevent the Littoral Combat Ship from being decommissioned. Naval combat ships are "junk". Brother Hu believes that the U.S. littoral combat ship is actually unable to fight against the People's Liberation Army's cutting-edge destroyers and small frigates. The cost of a littoral combat ship is almost equivalent to that of the 052D destroyer, but its combat power is not even as good as the ordinary small-sized ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy. Frigate 056A.
The U.S. Navy told the Senate that it needs to spend its limited funds on places where it can compete with the People's Liberation Army, rather than on "needle work" such as combating Somali pirates .
Others criticized that the US Navy’s top brass were obsessed with aircraft carriers, causing them to ignore the threat from the People’s Liberation Army’s powerful anti-ship strike capabilities. The US media believes that General Aquilino told the truth. The failure of the US Congress, which is responsible for military appropriation, in arms procurement is a serious incompetence. Congress should listen to General Aquilino’s opinions. If this is not done, failure is bound to come when the U.S. military and the People's Liberation Army actually confront each other.
Brother Hu believes that the Indo-Pacific Command is an important command department of the US military in the Asia-Pacific. They treat China and Russia as imaginary enemies, so General Aquilino urgently asks for help and needs Congressional funding or direct purchase of weapons suitable for dealing with the People's Liberation Army. arms.
But he doesn’t know how it is possible for Congress to give him whatever he wants. As we all know, the influence of the U.S. military-industrial complex in the United States is unprecedentedly powerful. The so-called military-industrial complex is a huge interest group composed of U.S. congressmen, think tanks, scientific research institutions, arms groups, the U.S. military, and the Department of Defense. For many years, in order to ensure a steady stream of arms orders, the private defense industry has used political and economic means to ask the U.S. military or the U.S. Congress to support the arms orders and development of military industry companies to ensure that a sufficient share of military spending will flow to private military companies to purchase their production. weapons to make huge profits.
Spinney, a former senior official of the U.S. Department of Defense, believes that the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. military are now coerced by the military-industrial complex, which controls the U.S. military’s equipment procurement through its strong economic strength and influence.
Therefore, in this case, the U.S. Congress will definitely take some "means" against the U.S. military in order to ensure that the weapons the arms giants want to sell can be sold. Therefore, whether General Aquilino is willing or not, he has to ask for it. The weapons provided by Congress now are not based on demand, but on interests. If things continue like this, the military-industrial complex and the dictates of outsiders in the U.S. Congress are likely to push the U.S. military into a "crisis state."
