PRLog (Press Release) –
Jun 20, 2009 – Paris, France,-- As an addendum to its May 28, 2009 press releases, Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC, a Florida incorporated and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) listed (www.ccr.gov) entity with principal offices in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has announced a new emphasizing of plans to permanently augment the U.S. global supply chain with air as a transportation methodology. The strategy would involve utilizing both heavylift (commercial C-17) and standard lift aircraft (747-8F). Current projections suggest at least 300 aircraft in initial phases.
“Sword of Damocles”
“China’s and South Korea’s virtual control of ocean-borne shipping, along with China’s rise as a blue water naval power capable of interrupting critical east-west ship transit lanes at will, signals an absolute need to neutralize a veritable ‘Sword of Damocles’ over the U.S. industrial base global supply chain,” says Myron D. Stokes, Managing Member.
“During the case study development phase for a U.S./NATO-controlled Heavy and Outsized air cargo industry using commercial variants of Boeing’s C-17 Globemaster III, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Application_of_M ... ) we worked with global logistics executives at major industrial firms to warn of this emergent danger to their global supply chains. As one would expect, their focus was on price, and not on service continuity vulnerability. Despite an observable reduction of systemic inefficiencies in air augmented supply chain simulations, they did not want to believe that the major shipping firms, most based in Asia, and very few of those operating U.S flagged ships, would risk contract termination through denial of service.
“Unfortunately, they were in denial of China’s oft-stated and underreported aspiration to become the dominant economic and military power, a fact quite clear to national security strategist Dr. Sheila Ronis when commenting on fellow strategist and former U.S. Naval College Professor Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett’s New York Times bestselling book (2004) The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in The 21st Century saying:
“It is imperative to recognize that the difficulties outlined above are not part of some distant tomorrow, but a clear and present danger. We have personal knowledge of the fact that both GM and Ford had their ocean-borne supply chains disrupted on the same day in 2004 due to a sudden unavailability of ships. In our view, that was no hiccup in the system, but a shot across the proverbial bow.
“The negative ramifications of Communist China’s veritable control of ocean-borne shipping is exacerbated exponentially by its growth as a naval power capable of projecting power around the globe. Not only will they reserve the right to disrupt supply chains at whim within their territorial claims, such as the whole of the South China Sea, (note recent Chinese Sub, U.S. Destroyer John S. McCain “collision” in international waters that must be regarded as this year’s version of the EP3E incident) but will resort to a military option to support that right, however unsustainable in the World Court.”
Stokes further says his certitude relative to China’s current and future actions stems in part from access to a scenario authored by Dr. Ronis, “Battle of The South China Sea: 2011” , (originally completed in September 2006) presented in the spring of 2008 at The Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. (http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=hudson_upcomi ... )
An excerpt:
South China Sea: 0700 Zulu. 6 May, 2011
“The US Seventh Fleet, led by the carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) has been deployed to send a strong message to China’s totalitarian leadership, who are amassing troops, aircraft and vessels for what is a apparently a full scale assault against Taiwan in accordance with the provision of the 2005 Non-Secession laws. Laws specifically crafted to legally permit an invasion of this tiny nation.
“Years of preparation for such an invasion make the US-backed Taiwanese military a formidable foe, and it won’t be overrun easily. Nevertheless, competence in matters military and strength of will cannot withstand parity in capability and equal strength of will plus overwhelming numerical superiority within the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Air Force (PLAAF) Navy (PLAN) and its air arm (PLANAF).
“This disturbing reality is the basis of a foregone conclusion among US DoD planners that Taiwan’s fall is not a matter of if, but when. Which is exactly why the fleet was deployed the moment satellite ground imagery, growing communications traffic and human intelligence determined an attack against Taiwan was inevitable.
“The US naval, air and ground force commanders have every reason to be in a successful outcome against a quite modernized Chinese force led by the 80,500 ton Yalu-class carrier Zhu Rongji. This force will soon include a Nimitz-class carrier of 101,000 ton displacement built under the direction of both Russian and French maritime architects and engineers, and is expected to deploy a full year in advance of the new CVN-78 class super carriers scheduled for 2014, whose presence rendered moot the argument of several defense analysts that the Chinese were not interested in near-term development of a blue water force capable of slugging it out with powerful US surface fleets deployed globally. The force also includes enhanced Sovremenny-class Destroyers equipped with new carrier killing ship to ship missiles, super-quiet Victor III-based nuclear-powered and very quiet Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines, and 60-knot Hydrofoil and Catamaran Littoral Combat Vessels, all equipped with now supersonic rocket torpedoes.
“The US navy, recognizing the powerful threat represented by these Russian developed weapon systems in 2005, had worked for the past six years developing countermeasures, but even now, in 2011, the current generation weapon called Shkval (Squall) is tough to defeat.
Press Contact:
John Chuhran
Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC
74 W. Long Lake Rd, Suite 103
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
248-310-2650
mstokes@emotionreports.com
http://www.emotionreports.com
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