U.S. intelligence agencies are guilty of multiple failures to address threats posed by China over the past 40 years, resulting in current existential dangers to American security, a former Navy intelligence director told Congress on Wednesday.
Chinese military personnel head to a field to participate in the Golden Dragon military exercise in Svay Chok village, Kampong Chhnang province, north of Phnom Penh Cambodia, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Cambodia and China on Thursday kicked off their annual …
“Even worse, our leaders help fund and otherwise enable China’s military, economic and technological advances needed to destroy our military forces in the field and destroy our society and economy,” Capt. Fanell said. Capt. Fanell said that he was pushed out of the Navy 10 years ago after giving a speech approved by his superiors that warned of China’s growing military capabilities in preparation for what he called a “short, sharp war” with the United States. He claimed that a civilian Pentagon official told him after the remarks that he was prohibited from making any similar speeches.
Regarding the intelligence failures, Capt. Fanell testified that U.S. intelligence agencies engaged in what he called “threat deflation” in seeking to play down or ignore troubling strategic developments. The greatest intelligence failure was China’s unchecked rise from underdeveloped nation to a peer rival to the United States, he said.
Capt. Fanell said one example of the intelligence failures involved incorrect assessments as late as 2006 asserting China’s military had no intention of building aircraft carriers. “The U.S. Navy flag officer corps devolved from being an institution that had the moral integrity to ‘revolt’ over principled disagreements about our national security strategy and budget allocation in 1949, to a U.S. Navy today that is arguably outgunned by the PLA Navy without one admiral publicly speaking out in dissent or resigning,” he said.
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