Morning Glory: What does 'Hellscape' mean?
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A US admiral says his plan to keep China from conquering Taiwan is to turn the battlefield into a “Hellscape." Congress and the public need to understand how that war could develop.
"I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities," Paparo told Rogin. "So that I can make [PLAN’s] lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything."
Among Pacific Command’s many missions is to deter China from doing just that. Given the CCP’s massive investment in ship and submarine building and its repeated rehearsal of that invasion and its past cyber-attacks on our military, Paparo and everyone under his command has their work cut out for them: How to create a "Hellscape?"
"I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities," Paparo told Rogin. "So that I can make [PLAN’s] lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything." "Classified capabilities" means we can’t know the details or even the outline of the details. But Paparo did add "I can’t tell you what’s in" the plan to stop the Chinese military. "But," he added, "it’s real and it’s deliverable." On Wednesday’s program I suggested to Florida Republican Congressman Michael Waltz, who sits on the House Armed Services, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committee, that he and his colleagues invite Alex Karp of Palantir, Palmer Luckey of Anduril, Brett Granberg of Vannevar and Joe Lonsdale of Epirus, etc., to testify to one of his committees on how to rapidly move to the acquisition and deployment of the sort of "hellscape" weaponry that can empower our military to deter China from deciding about a move on Taiwan like Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasions of Ukraine under both President Barack Obama and again under President Joe Biden.
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