Threat Assessment

Excerpts from interview with military policy expert Rebeccah Heinrichs. 

WORLD magazine

     Danger: Chinese leaders are committed to Marxist Leninism and invest in massive military and nuclear weapons...teamed with Russians.

     Golden Dome: Our ground-based defense is vulnerable. The Chinese and Russians are hot after their own air and missile defense systems. GOP and Dems agree we must adapt our missile defense system. We can field a robust defense maybe in three to five years.

     Ukraine's Plight: Nuclear coercion works. Russia's nuclear brinkmanship - Chinese learned this 10 times over.

     Attack Taiwan: I think the Chinese will try to take Taiwan as soon as they are convinced that they can defeat the U.S. or any other effort.

     Christian Attitude: Government's responsibility is to protect citizens or impose a cost on the adversary threatening the innocent. Allowing subjugation, death and destruction is worse than potentially employing a nuclear weapon.

 Continued tomorrow