{"id":182524,"date":"2015-08-22T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/22\/amateurs-talk-about-tactics-but-professionals-study-logistics\/"},"modified":"2015-08-22T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T23:15:00","slug":"amateurs-talk-about-tactics-but-professionals-study-logistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/22\/amateurs-talk-about-tactics-but-professionals-study-logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateurs Talk about Tactics, but Professionals Study Logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/naval\/2015\/06\/18\/report-china-orders-civilian-ships-adapted-for-military-use\/28929177\/\">ordering their civilian merchant marine to be upgraded for military applications<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">China&#8217;s government has passed new guidelines requiring civilian shipbuilders to ensure their vessels can be used by the military in the event of conflict, state-run media said on Thursday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The regulations require five categories of vessels including container ships to be modified to &#8220;serve national defence needs&#8221;, the state-run China Daily newspaper said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The regulations &#8220;will enable China to convert the considerable potential of its civilian fleet into military strength&#8221;, it said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The report said that China had about 172,000 civilian ships at the end of last year, suggesting the measure could be a major boost to China&#8217;s navy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">China&#8217;s government will cover the costs of the plan, it added.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is actually more significant than the Chinese naval expansion.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot project power if you cannot support it, and the fact that the Chinese are implementing something very much like the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marad.dot.gov\/ships-and-shipping\/strategic-sealift\/maritime-security-program-msp\/\">Maritime Security Program <\/a> implies that they are getting serious about power projection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese are ordering their civilian merchant marine to be upgraded for military applications: China&#8217;s government has passed new guidelines requiring civilian shipbuilders to ensure their vessels can be used by the military in the event of conflict, state-run media said on Thursday.The regulations require five categories of vessels including container ships to be modified &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}