China’s navy has deployed “six highly capable vessels” to the Middle East, a feat that “a lot of countries in the world could not manage,” says Bryden Spurling, a researcher with the RAND think tank.
“Though they’ve never been tested in conflict, these ships have significant capability and reflect the rapid growth in the sophistication of the Chinese Navy,” Spurling, a former civil servant with Australia’s Department of Defence, told Newsweek in a report published on Wednesday.
On October 7, Hamas launched attacks on Israel by land, air, and sea, killing hundreds of people in Israeli towns, military bases, and at a music festival.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday that these deployments “further increase our force posture and strengthen our capabilities and ability to respond to a range of contingencies.”
Then US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said at a RAND Corporation event in 2020 that ship numbers do not reflect the US Navy’s true capabilities.
“They do not address the types of ships and the capabilities of the vessels being counted; the skill of the crews that operate them; the prowess of the officers that lead them; or the ways in which we fight and sustain them,” said Esper.
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China’s navy has deployed “six highly capable vessels” to the Middle East, a feat that “a lot of countries in the world could not manage,” says Bryden Spurling, a researcher with the RAND think tank.
“Though they’ve never been tested in conflict, these ships have significant capability and reflect the rapid growth in the sophistication of the Chinese Navy,” Spurling, a former civil servant with Australia’s Department of Defence, told Newsweek in a report published on Wednesday.
On October 7, Hamas launched attacks on Israel by land, air, and sea, killing hundreds of people in Israeli towns, military bases, and at a music festival.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday that these deployments “further increase our force posture and strengthen our capabilities and ability to respond to a range of contingencies.”
Then US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said at a RAND Corporation event in 2020 that ship numbers do not reflect the US Navy’s true capabilities.
“They do not address the types of ships and the capabilities of the vessels being counted; the skill of the crews that operate them; the prowess of the officers that lead them; or the ways in which we fight and sustain them,” said Esper.
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