US Good at 'Taking Down' Small Islands, General Hints to China

[jpak]

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/05/31/us-good-taking-down-small-islands-general-hints-china.html

If it came down to it, the U.S. military has a track record of "taking down" small islands such as the artificial and fortified ones China has created in the disputed South China Sea, a U.S. general said Thursday.

"The United States military has a lot of experience in the Western Pacific taking down small islands," Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie said in response to an over-the-top hypothetical at a Pentagon news briefing.

McKenzie, the Pentagon's Joint Staff director, said he was not making threats and his audience "shouldn't read anything more into that than a simple statement of historical fact. It's just a fact."

"We have a lot of experience in the Second World War taking down small islands that are isolated. So, that's a core competency of the U.S. military," he said.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Not without losses. NT

[GeorgeGist]

2. 70 years ago ...

F O O L

[DavidDvorkin]

3. And China has lots of experience taking down powerful invading forces

Including the Japanese in WWII. It took time, but China takes the long view.