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...fact, the junior righthander was staring down the barrel of a gun all day long. A projected first round draft pick in this June's amateur draft, Crockett attracted a throng of scouts who stood in the bleachers Friday-radar guns in hand-charting his every pitch...
...that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent Navy expert. "That would tell them which of their systems is vulnerable to interception--Are we able to intercept telephone conversations from Chinese naval headquarters to ships? Are we able to intercept radar transmissions at certain frequencies?--that's what the Chinese want to know...
Military planning must always be for the worst-case scenario, not for a world where every country acts as expected. We may expect that China would never invade Taiwan, but our expectations are unlikely to give the Taiwanese nearly so much comfort as Aegis radar the next time China conducts missile exercises off the Taiwan coast. The submarines are similarly a defensive weapon against invasion—Taiwan is not in a position to attack the mainland. It would be irresponsible to leave Taiwan defenseless when it faces such a powerful and aggressive threat...
...characterization of China as a “strategic competitor,” tensions between the two powers have escalated. But one particularly divisive measure—perhaps the most important in Sino-U.S. relations—is a proposed sale of submarines and the Aegis radar system to Taiwan. In this particularly tense time, the arms sale proposed by the Bush administration would be extremely ill-advised and could cause irreparable harm to the relationship between China...
...that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent Navy expert. "That would tell them which of their systems is vulnerable to interception - are we able to intercept telephone conversations from Chinese naval headquarters to ships? Are we able to intercept radar transmissions at certain frequencies? - that's what the Chinese want to know...