Warnings Of War

Late last week, Air Force General Mike Minihan, head of the Air Mobility Command, sent a memo to his officers telling them to be ready for war with communist China by 2025. Consider this excerpt:

“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025. Xi secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022. Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.” 

I know many people at the White House and the Pentagon are not happy about this memo, especially since General Minihan is reminiscent of General Patton. He urged the troops under his command to prepare by firing “a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most. Aim for the head.”

I worry about Minihan keeping his job. We have been fighting wars with one eye on the New York Times editorial board, as if our tactics must satisfy them. We have been apologizing when we have been lethal in combat. But that is the reason why we have a military – to “kill the enemy.” Not nation-building or baby sitting at the southern border.

I have no doubt that we have great fighting men and women in our Armed Forces. It’s the bureaucratic leadership I worry about. A Pentagon spending one second and one dime telling officers how to handle pregnant men is not a serious military. 

And if we’re reading these stories, you can bet that Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are reading these stories, too. 

If Gen. Minihan happens to retire soon, I have no doubt that someone like him would be passed over for someone else who’s all in on “gender affirming care” and the rest of the woke agenda.