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...understand what China's plans and intentions are," Negroponte said at a Sunday press conference before heading home. It's true that the U.S. continues to participate in periodic, lower-level meetings between Pentagon and Defense Ministry officials (the so-called Defense Consultative talks). But while he was CINCPAC commander, Admiral Fallon took some heat from critics in the U.S. who feel he was way too solicitous of his counterparts in Beijing, who some defense analysts believe remain overtly hostile to the Pentagon and its huge presence in East Asia. Unfortunately for Beijing, its game of hide the bacon...
Everything seemed to have been going well last year. In May 2006, Admiral William J. Fallon, then combatant commander for U.S. forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC) - and now the chief overseeing the more fraught theater that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan - visited four cities during an official tour of China that was, at its core, an open invitation for Beijing to emerge from the secrecy that shrouds much of its military planning and spending. The incentive for China? To sit down, U.S. officials later said, with counterparts in the Pentagon and be treated not as an enemy...
...role of the ten theater commanders who actually control the troops in the field by making them report to the Secretary of Defense through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The theater commands are now unified in name only. For example, the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), who happens to be a Navy admiral, lacks the authority to choose his Air Force subordinate, who in practice is far more beholden to the Chief of the Air Force...
...then, some 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars were driving straight through the DMZ into Quang Tri province to join another 20,000 troops already in the area. By Monday, said one awed CINCPAC officer, "it looked like the Rhine River campaign" of World War II. One column drove south along the beaches of the Tonkin Gulf, despite a heavy barrage laid down by U.S. destroyers offshore. Taking advantage of heavy rains and low clouds, which limited air strikes, other units rolled down French-built Highway 1 aboard Soviet-built tanks and trucks towing antiaircraft or artillery pieces...
Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral John Hyland was summoned by news of the seizure from a dinner party at his Hawaii home. At the same moment, Hyland's boss, CINCPAC Commander Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp, was on the opposite side of the Pacific, conferring in Danang with General William Westmoreland. Unaccountably, Sharp was not informed of Pueblo's plight until he had flown from Danang and landed on the carrier Kittyhawk-a lapse...