1 final struggle of dying USA military mussle to stand up against Russia n PRC

1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/14/hagel-orders-top-to-bottom-changes-in-nuke-force/

Hagel orders nuke force overhaul, cites 'systematic problems'

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In this Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel listens to a question during a briefing at the Pentagon.*(AP)
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered major changes in the management of America's nuclear arsenal, and billions in additional spending, to fix "systematic problems" in the wake of a series of embarrassing nuclear missteps.*

In announcing the top-to-bottom changes, the secretary also shed light on how deep the problems really were. He described how three Air Force bases had to share a simple -- yet critical -- wrench that is needed for attaching nuclear warheads to missiles.*

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Hagel said operators had to express-ship the wrench across the West so that the bases in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana could use it.*

"They were creative and innovative and they made it work," Hagel said. But he said "that's not the way to do it" and the department now has provided a wrench for each location - and they'll soon have two at each.*

"That's one of many of the issues and the problems that we found," Hagel said.*

Hagel said a lack of sustained attention and investment in the force overall caused it to "slowly back downhill."*

Speaking to Pentagon reporters, he said the Defense Department will boost spending on the nuclear forces by about 10 percent a year for the next five years -- an increase of nearly $10 billion -- adding there is no problem on this issue the Pentagon can't fix.*

"The internal and external reviews I ordered show that a consistent lack of investment and support for our nuclear forces over far too many years has left us with too little margin to cope with mounting stresses," said Hagel, who was flanked by senior Air Force and Navy officers. "The root cause has been a lack of sustained focus, attention, and resources, resulting in a pervasive sense that a career in the nuclear enterprise offers too few opportunities for growth and advancement."*

Hagel ordered two reviews in February -- one by Pentagon officials and a second by outside experts -- as a result of a series of Associated Press stories that revealed lapses in leadership, morale, safety and security at the nation's three nuclear Air Force bases.*

The good news, Hagel said, "is there has been no nuclear exchange in the world."*

Acknowledging the years of neglect, which included glaring problems that prompted then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates to fire his top military and civilian Air Force leaders in 2008, Hagel vowed renewed accountability.*

Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, said the nuclear force has been operating securely.*

Hagel's moves are designed to get at the core of the problem.*

The reviews concluded that the structure of U.S. nuclear forces is so incoherent that it cannot be properly managed in its current form, and that this problem explains why top-level officials often are unaware of trouble below them. The reviews found a "disconnect" between what nuclear force leaders say and what they deliver to lower-level troops who execute the missions in the field.*

Among his more significant moves, Hagel authorized the Air Force to put a four-star general in charge of its nuclear forces, according to officials.*

The top Air Force nuclear commander currently is a three-star. Lt. Gen. Stephen Wilson is responsible not only for the 450 Minuteman ICBMs but also the nuclear bomber force. Hagel has concluded that a four-star would be able to exert more influence within the Air Force and send a signal to the entire force that the mission is taken seriously, the defense officials said.*

Hagel also OK'd a proposal to upgrade the top nuclear force official at Air Force headquarters in the Pentagon from a two-star general to a three-star.*

The review's authors, retired Air Force Gen. Larry D. Welch and retired Navy Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., found fault with one of the unique features of life in the nuclear forces. It is called the Personnel Reliability Program, designed to monitor the mental fitness of people to be entrusted with the world's deadliest weapons.*

Over time, that program has devolved into a burdensome administrative exercise that detracts from the mission, the authors found. Hagel ordered an overhaul.*

Hagel concluded that despite tight Pentagon budgets, billions of dollars more will be needed over the next five years to upgrade equipment. That will include a proposal to replace the Vietnam-era UH-1 Huey helicopter fleet that is part of the security forces at ICBM bases. The Air Force declared them out of date years ago but put available resources into other priorities.*

The Navy, which operates nuclear-armed submarines, has had its own problems, including an exam-cheating scandal this year among nuclear reactor training instructors and has suffered from a shortage of personnel.*

When he ordered the reviews, shortly after the Air Force announced it was investigating an exam-cheating ring at one ICBM base and a related drug investigation implicating missile crew members, Hagel was said to be flabbergasted that such misbehavior could be infecting the force.*

Hans Kristensen, a nuclear expert with the Federation of American Scientists, said Thursday that while he had not seen the Hagel reviews or heard what actions Hagel was ordering, he was skeptical that it would make much difference.*

"Throwing money after problems may fix some technical issues but it is unlikely to resolve the dissolution that must come from sitting in a silo hole in the Midwest with missiles on high alert to respond to a nuclear attack that is unlikely to ever come," Kristensen said.*

A cascade of embarrassments befell the Air Force over the past two years, beginning with an AP story in May 2013 revealing one missile officer's lament of "rot" inside the force. Another AP story in November disclosed that an independent assessment for the Air Force found signs of "burnout" and elevated levels of personal misconduct among missile launch crews and missile security forces.*

Fox News' Justin Fishel and The Associated Press contributed to this report. *

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Nuclear War: Russia Shocks US With Tactical Weapons, Pentagon Retaliates
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By Athena Yenko | November 15, 2014 6:25 PM EST
Russia is in possession of strategic nuclear weapons far more advance than the United States, and it will continue to lead the game with its new generation of missiles, according to a comprehensive report from the Russian political newspaper, PRAVDA. Indeed, if World War 3 erupts, Russian Vladimir Putin will win hands down, the report suggested.




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The report titled Russia Prepares Nuclear Surprise For NATO, claims that Russia was able to amass its massive nuclear power because the U.S. had been dismissive and neglectful of achieving innovations in decades after winning the Cold War. Specifically, the U.S. had closed the possibility of developing high-precision long-range weapons that could eradicate enemies even without coming to direct contact. But Russia never stops innovating despite much criticism and the more accepted notion that the country is weak and the west is superior. At this point, Russia has "long-range cruise missiles of a new generation that will soon be deployed on submarines of the Black Sea Fleet and missile ships of the Caspian Flotilla," PRAVDA stated.

And not only that - Russia's tactical nuclear weapons are far more superior to that of NATO's, the report said. NATO's member countries have only 260 tactical weapons. The U.S. has 200 bombs with an overall capacity of 18 megatons - located in Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey. France has 60 atomic bombs, as outlined by the report. "Russia, according to conservative estimates, has 5,000 pieces of different classes" of tactical nuclear weapons "from Iskander warheads to torpedo, aerial and artillery warheads," the report from PRAVDA highlighted.

The report seemed to have solid basis. Russia's plans of sending long-range bombers to the Gulf of Mexico are being widely reported. Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu declared that Russia has to maintain its military presence in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific, including the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. This included sending long-range bombers as part of the drills. Russia will also be sending more troops in Crimea. Shoigu noted that the deployments are in response to the "fomentation of anti-Russian moods on the part of NATO and reinforcement of foreign military presence next to our border," CNN reported.

U.S. officials did not buy the idea that Russia has the capability of deploying long-range bombers. A source had reportedly told CNN that the U.S. found no security threat proving that such bold and destructive activity is happening. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki echoed the same opinion.

However, Pentagon retaliates with Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announcing a proposal of an additional $1.5 billion to the $15 billion a year worth of maintenance to U.S.' nuclear arsenals.* He admitted that US Air Force and Navy were beleaguered with scandals over the years. These scandals resulted to the neglect of the country's nuclear programmes, rendering some infrastructure outdated and maintenance deteriorated, The Washington Post reported.* *

At one point, inspections of the nuclear weapons became burdensome for the force, Deputy Secretary of Defence Robert Work said. For a time, there was shortage of specialised tools for the maintenance. A single tool kit for intercontinental ballistic missiles had to be shipped from base to base to conduct maintenance.

Hagel said that nuclear mission remains the military's most important job. Hence, Pentagon officials will now be working anew to improve the status of the government's nuclear programmes by modernising nuclear warheads, long-range bombers and ballistic missile submarines - with the billion worth boost to the annual maintenance budget.

Members of the Congress agreed to the budget proposal. Republicans lauded it too. They said the $1.5 billion boost to the funding is just right. The nuclear programmes had suffered too much neglect because of "insufficient resources, indifferent leadership, and poor morale," Rep. Howard McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/13/hagel-announce-overhaul-us-strategic-nuclear-force/

Hagel to announce overhaul of U.S. strategic nuclear forces
Will travel to North Dakota to address problem Minuteman units


FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel listens to a question during a briefing at the Pentagon. Hagel has concluded that problems in the nation’s nuclear forces are rooted in a lack of ... more >
By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times - Thursday, November 13, 2014
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will announce on Friday a plan to overhaul the Pentagon’s nuclear-weapons units and permit the Air Force to appoint a four-star general to oversee its nuclear forces.

Mr. Hagel will reveal the new security measures, undertaken in response to a series of dismissals and reports of leadership and other failures in the nation’s strategic-nuclear forces, during a press conference at the Pentagon in the morning, according to a senior defense official.

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After the press conference, Mr. Hagel will travel to Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota “to discuss the way ahead directly with the men and women of the nuclear force,” the official said.

Minot Air Force Base is home to parts of two legs of the nation’s strategic-nuclear triad — intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers.

“Tomorrow, Secretary Hagel will announce a comprehensive action plan to reform the nuclear enterprise based on the results of two reviews he ordered last February in the wake of a series of incidents involving nuclear personnel,” the official said. “While our nuclear arsenal remains safe, secure, and effective today, the reports tell us we must take action now in order to ensure that remains the case in the future.”

The Air Force experienced leadership problems with the units that operate its Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles, based in North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The Associated Press says that it has tracked lapses in training, violations of security rules, exam cheating and misbehavior by those who oversaw the missile units.



The Pentagon’s reviews found that a combination of problems throughout the Air Force and Navy nuclear-arsenal forces amounted to fundamental flaws rather than random or periodic slip-ups that could be easily fixed, according to The Associated Press.

The Navy has also endured a exam-cheating scandal and experienced a shortage in nuclear force personnel, according to AP.

Re: 1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

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美国要花大钱整修核武设施
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2014年11月17日 07:47:16 来源： 人民日报 我有话要说(0人参与)
　　美国国防部长哈格尔近日在五角大楼宣布，美国将在今后5年花费数十亿美元对核武器基础设施进行紧急整修。鉴于美军核部队存在士气低落、人员匮乏、管理不善等问题，他将下令对核部队的管理进行大规模改革，以纠正管理错误、消除安全隐患并提升士气。
　　哈格尔宣布的决定缘于针对美军核武器部队所进行的两项调查结果。自去年以来，美国媒体接连爆出美军核部队从高官到下属出现安全测试不过关、士气低落、吸毒、考试作弊等一系列问题和丑闻。哈格尔今年1月指示成立内部调查组和独立调查小组，对美军核武器部队存在的问题进行全面调查。
　　经过半年多的实地调查和对约1500名相关人员的谈话，两个调查小组最终一致认为美军核部队中所存在的问题要比此前想象的严重得多，并称这是一种“系统性的严重问题”。除了士气、纪律等问题，美军核武器设施老化现象严重。例如，已有60多年历史的核武器发射井防冲击波门无法密封关闭；负责维护450枚洲际弹道导弹的小分队只有一把用于装卸核弹头的扳手，而这么多年来无人过问此事。
　　近年来，美国政府削减开支的举措在一定程度上限制了五角大楼的预算。针对调查所提出的核武器设施老化问题，哈格尔借势张口要钱。他称，很长时间以来，美国对核武器部队缺乏投资和支持。五角大楼经费不足以及对伊拉克和阿富汗两场战争的专注使美国的核武器被削弱，进而损害了美国核武库的安全性和效率。对此，美国海军将消除对核武器的行政阻碍，并计划雇佣超过2500名员工全面检修公共造船厂、战略武器设施和核反应堆训练系统中老化的基础设施。哈格尔说，针对美军核部队的长期整改措施将马上出台。
　　当前，整个国际社会正在致力于削减核武器和防止核武器扩散。在此形势下，五角大楼拟投巨资更新核武器设施格外引人关注。实际上，奥巴马政府已经计划拨巨资用于核武器实验室升级和核弹头的更新换代。此前，奥巴马政府还计划购买或整修12艘核潜艇、上百架战略轰炸机和约400个陆基导弹。在2014年的政府预算中，奥巴马政府已削减对核不扩散项目的经费支持，转而将能源部的核武器活动经费提高9%。随着此轮核基地整修人力和财力的投入，美国将继续扩大其在核威慑力量建设上的军费支出。近日，美国蒙特雷国际研究院一项研究表明，在今后30年间，美国用于核力量的开支将高达1.1万亿美元。
　　此间分析指出，奥巴马执政后曾大谈无核世界，现在又对美国核武器进行如此巨大的投资，这一现象令人费解。此外，五角大楼此举距今年伊朗核谈判结束的最后期限11月24日只剩数日。美国政府一方面严防伊朗发展核武器，另一方面却要对本国核武器进行新一轮整修，颇具讽刺意味。
　　在当今世界，美国仍极力维持其核武器的绝对优势地位，这与其经济实力、人心向背和国际大势产生愈来愈深的矛盾。美军核部队士气低落也是人心向背的一部分，仅靠大把花钱既难以改变士气低落的现状，也让美国维持核武器绝对优势的努力愈发捉襟见肘。
　　（本报华盛顿11月16日电）

Re: 1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

Pathetic weak loser struggling to get back up on it's feet to face 2 stronge opponents. Can never catch up and the huge gap in strength enlarge daily.

With debt financed military spendings like this USA can not go any further. PRC isn't going to loan funds to let Obama arm himself against PRC itself.

Re: 1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

Xi Jin Ping no matter how foolishly civilised must spend the money arming himself rather than lending to Obama to get armed agaist PRC.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nts-discover-year-study-secret-documents.html


China 'has up to 3,000 nuclear weapons hidden in tunnels', three-year study of secret documents reveals

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10:52 30 Nov 2011, updated 14:36 01 Dec 2011
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Georgetown University student spent three years translating secret military documents and blogs
Focus of research centred on 3,000 miles of underground tunnels dug by Second Artillery Corps
Investigation launched after 2008 earthquake in Sichuan revealed existence of collapsed tunnels
Study claims China could have as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads - far more then current estimates of between 80 and 400
China may be using thousands of miles of underground tunnels to hide a nuclear missile arsenal that is far bigger than current estimates, according to researchers.

They spent three years translating secret military documents, scouring the internet and studying satellite images for clues – and concluded that China may have as many as 3,000 missiles, compared with general estimates of between 80 and 400.

The researchers at Georgetown University, led by a former senior Pentagon official, concentrated on a 3,000-mile network of tunnels dug largely in Sichuan province by the Chinese Second Artillery, a secretive unit responsible for protecting the country’s nuclear weapons.


Stockpiling: Missiles being test-fired at an undisclosed location. A group of university students have uncovered evidence that China may have many more nuclear weapons than previously thought

Capabilities: After translating secret military documents, forums and studying images of a network of tunnels in China, the students believe the country could have as many as 3,000 warheads
In 2008, thousands of radiation technicians were sent to the region after it was hit by a huge earthquake. When TV pictures showed oddly collapsed hills across the province, officials eventually admitted there was a network of tunnels underneath, dubbing it their ‘Underground* Great Wall’.

The 363-page study, as yet unpublished, has been discussed in Congress and circulated among defence officials. It was commissioned as ‘homework’ by the students’ professor, Phillip Karber, a prominent Washington defence strategist during the Cold War.

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‘It’s not quite a bombshell, but those thoughts and estimates are being checked against what people think they know based on classified information,’ said a defence department official.

Critics have questioned the study’s use of internet research, including blogs and even a Chinese TV drama about artillerymen.


Concerns: A Chinese naval vessel fires missiles during an exercise off the Shangdong peninsula
Nuclear analyst Gregory Kulacki said the tunnels might encourage the Chinese to have fewer rather than more missiles in the belief that they were better protected.

Nuclear non-proliferation campaigners have also attacked the report, saying it will undermine efforts to reduce atomic weapon stockpiles.

But Mark Stokes of the Project 2049 Institute, an international security think-tank, said the report highlighted ‘the uncertainty about what China has’.


Might: China's military has been expanding rapidly and in 2009 it admitted the existence of 3,000 miles of underground tunnels

Force: New recruits for the Chinese People's Liberation Army stand at attention in Suining city. The study also shows how the military transports missiles through its tunnel network
Professor Karber said: ‘I don’t have the slightest idea how many nuclear weapons China really has, but neither does anyone else in the arms-control community.

‘That’s the problem with China – no one really knows except them.’

China has long been the most secretive of the five nuclear powers recognised by the international Non-Proliferation Treaty.

While Russia and America have bilateral treaties that ensure their stockpiles are monitored, the Chinese have simply claimed they keep a small number of missiles for ‘minimum deterrence’.

The U.S. has 5,000 nuclear warheads, and Russia 8,000.


Underground: The study began after the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province revealed strangely collapsed hills that were believe to have tunnels underneath them.

Re: 1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

US strategic nuke is a hoax and bad joke. They never really planned to put the nukes into use ever. They almost never tested blasting for donkey ages. They seldom fire their missiles in exercises.

On the very doomed day Obama found USA under nuke attack and had to fire back, he will find his FIRE button fell off as he pushed it and all his computer hanged on Microsoft bugs or similar shits. And he gets killed before he could his his own ass good bye!

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....-- wrench that is needed for attaching nuclear warheads to missiles.*

Hagel said operators had to express-ship the wrench across the West so that the bases in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana could use it.*


"The internal and external reviews I ordered show that a consistent lack of investment and support for our nuclear forces over far too many years has left us with too little margin to cope with mounting stresses," .


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Hagel ordered two reviews in February -- one by Pentagon officials and a second by outside experts -- as a result of a series of Associated Press stories that revealed lapses in leadership, morale, safety and security at the nation's three nuclear Air Force bases.*
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y top-level officials often are unaware of trouble below them. The reviews found a "disconnect" between what nuclear force leaders say and what they deliver to lower-level troops who execute the missions in the field.*
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the Vietnam-era UH-1 Huey helicopter fleet that is part of the security forces at ICBM bases.

The Navy, which operates nuclear-armed submarines, has had its own problems, including an exam-cheating scandal this year among nuclear reactor training instructors and has suffered from a shortage of personnel.*
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the Air Force announced it was investigating an exam-cheating ring at one ICBM base and a related drug investigation implicating missile crew members, Hagel was said to be flabbergasted that such misbehavior could be infecting the force.*

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The truth is US highest top secret strategic nuclear forces is the same or worst standard than rotten corrupted 3rd world Ah Neh militaries

laughingstock for the world to remember

Re: 1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

Just alike the health of SG STRONGMAN LKY

USA superpower will take it's final dose of steroid to try to get on it's own feet

After this there will be just end of shows

Re: 1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

US don't even need to use military arms against Russia.................

the Jews that control US just need to crash the Ruble and oil prices.................Russia in deep trouble liao...........

Re: 1 final struggle of dying USA military muscle to stand up against Russia n PRC

GOD IS MY DOG said:

US don't even need to use military arms against Russia.................

the Jews that control US just need to crash the Ruble and oil prices.................Russia in deep trouble liao...........

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fucking Jews already long lost such abilities.

Tun Dr M also able to block Jews Solos financial attacks on Malaysian Riggit during Asian Financial Crisis. All they need is to FREEZE FREE TRADING OF FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGES. Ban all instruments of Western Financial Systems. There id nothing Ang Moh and CB Jews could do.

Putin is ex Soviet man. He knows even better than Tun Dr M.

In whole time of USSR Communism Moscow got total control of their own money and economy. Compleltely out of Westrn hands.

Moscow can freeze all western banks funds n licenses arrest their dogs and shot on Red Square. The only correct way to do deal woth business. The more barbaric uncivilized the more effective.





Today economic competency is not with USA any longer.

Moscow and Beijing need not even revert to Communism. Just merely impose restrictions or limitations on financial dealings w USA or stop loans the pathetic Wall Street will crash pamanently. Fucking Jew's ass fried.