The PLAN: "great concern" but "a long way to go"

WSJ story on the annual Pentagon report to Congress over China's build-up.  Because of the general deterioration of mil-mil ties after the $6.4B arms sale to Taiwan, the report will have little impact overall, except to justify growing enthusiasm inside the Building for the whole AirSea Battle concept (the Air Force and Navy searching for relevancy in a Long War world).

The usual references to China's aggressive cyber-snooping, which is annoying but results in no significant shift in the correlation of forces.

As for the new antiship missile, a senior defense official says it is of "great concern," but adds, "they still have a long way to go."

A non-hyperbolic assessment.

Comments

[Jon D'Angelo]

SecDef reads your blog...

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Robert-Gates/59935845960

[Paul from NoVa]

"Correlation of forces" (соотношение сил) is soooooo 1970s SovSpeak.