EXCERPT:
KEANE: "Oh, yeah. When Admiral Davidson took over a couple years ago an assumption of command speech, he laid it right on the table. He said there’s no guarantee that we, the United States, could win a war against China today. And that actually remains the fact. He sees the cold, hard reality. When looking at the military balance, China has the momentum. We are outgunned in the Indo-Pacific, they have a much larger navy. They have the largest air force in the region and they have the largest collection of offensive conventional missiles on the planet. All of our bases in the region would be vulnerable to a major offensive attack by the Chinese military. The U.S. Pacific fleet, if it remained in the western Pacific, would receive a fuselage of hypersonic weapons which would overwhelm that fleet, and it would be quite devastating. They would likely to have sail to the east to get out of the kill zone range. And even if we come, because we’re an ocean away, we don’t have all of the resources in the region, we have to come from the west coast of the United States, that’s three weeks away, by cargo ship, et cetera. They would all be under attack, and the Chinese would take down our satellite systems. And listen, in the last 10 years, different sponsors have run wars on this very subject. The result is we lose. When I was on the congressional commission looking at the national defense strategy in 2018, we said this: If we entered in a war with China, the losses to personnel and high capital assets would be on a scale not seen since World War II. We would be challenged to win and indeed we could lose. This is not just sobering, this is alarming. “