{"id":136489,"date":"2023-01-28T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136489"},"modified":"2023-01-28T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T15:24:07","slug":"usaf-4-star-predicts-war-with-china-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=136489","title":{"rendered":"USAF 4-star predicts war with China for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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USAF General Mike Minihan (pictured) is the commander of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), which oversees all Air Force strategic and tactical airlift as well as aerial refueling. He’s the only general officer I’ve seen limit his displayed awards for his official photo to only his unit awards. The Air Force has an “all or some” regulation when it comes to wearing ribbons on most uniforms. As with our Navy brothers, this is usually<\/em> interpreted as your top three awards. To me, it says something about the man that he chose only his unit awards for his photo. That’s one thing in his favor.<\/p>\n

The other is how he channels his inner General Mattis when it comes to our country’s enemies. In September of 2022 he told a military conference the Air Force was responsible for the biggest “pile of our nation’s enemy dead” among the branches of the American military and that “[w]hen you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better. Your food tastes better. Your marriage is stronger.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, he’s releasing a memo on 1 Feb that focuses on preparing the chronically overworked AMC for what he sees as the perfect storm of opportunity in 2025 for China to make a move on Taiwan.<\/p>\n

The Drive has the story<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025. [Chinese President] Xi [Jinping] secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022,” Minihan’s memo says bluntly by way of introduction. “Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. [The] United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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