川普暗示对朝动武 马蒂斯：美军必须做好准备

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莉雅, 川普暗示对朝动武 马蒂斯：美军必须做好准备. VOA Chinese, Oct 9, 2017.
https://www.voachinese.com/a/mattis-army-20171009/4063115.html

Note:
(a) "川普在星期六也发推说 * * * 对不起，只有一件事会奏效！"

"Sorry, but only one thing will work!"
(b) "美国参议院外交关系委员会主席、田纳西州的共和党参议员科克"

Robert Phillips Corker Jr, or Bob Corker.
(c) If one reads the transcript, it is nothing.

News transcript: Remarks by Secretary Mattis at the Association of the US Army Exposition on Building Readiness in Washington, DC. US Department of Defense, Oct 9, 2017.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Tra ... -exposition-on-bui/

pertinent quotations;

(i) "But it was also something to remind us about the priorities that Secretary McCarthy [acting United States Secretary of the Army Ryan D McCarthy] and General Milley [Chief of Staff of the Army Mark A Milley] have made very clear in their time in office, and that is for readiness, and we will talk more about that.

(ii) an answer in Q&A:

"I think the message I was thinking, as I watched that presentation, was the need for readiness.

"There was a comrade by the name of John Abizaid, who, as a younger general, once said to me, 'You know, if you were sitting in my chair' -- and he was in the Joint Staff in those days -- 'in 1810, and you said, "Where are we going to fight in the next 10 years?" not one of us would have guessed "I think the Royal Navy's going to sail right up that river [Potomac River, from Chesapeake Bay where British Navy had been stationed for a year] outside my window, and burn this town [Washington DC on Aug 24, 1814] to the ground." '

"Well, you [audience] say 'That's a long time ago.'  He said, 'Think about 1910.  How many would have said that we're going to be in Europe in the next 10 years, and the US Army, strung out from forts all across the Indian-fighting [American] West, would never have forecast they'd be wearing gas masks with airplanes dropping bombs, and charging machine guns and barbed wire?"

"So the need for readiness must also ensure that we have a shock absorber built inside the Army.

"And out of World War I, where the first advance we made -- the first offensive we made went horribly wrong, because troops couldn't get to the front lines in the right order, there was a traffic jam, the attack went in badly.

"It's a reminder, we've got to be brilliant in the basics of blocking and tackling, because from Bataan Peninsula to Kasserine Pass to Task Force Smith, we know too well the cost of not being ready.

"And I think that right now we want to do is be so ready, and be very much aware that we fight the way we come, that everybody in the world wants to deal with Secretary Tillerson, the Department of State, not the Department of Defense and the United States Army.

(iii) another answer in Q&A:

"Now there are times when those of us who wear the uniform can be rightly condemned for being overly conservative, wanting more insurance, and more boats, and planes, and guns and tanks, and I understand that.  And as General MacArthur said when he was chief of staff of the Army [1930-1935], in those days when our country was having difficult times economically [alluding to Great Depression] before World War II, and he was trying to convince the US Congress to spend an adequate amount of money on readiness so that the US Army would be ready -- he made the point there that day that day that we have got to be willing to do this, because it's the surest way to deter war, but there's also a time and cost aspect of this.  And I think the more we can explain we have the time right now to prepare for war is the best way to prevent war.

"But should conflict break out, to get money later will not be good enough because we won't have the time at that point.  And we all understand this. * * *

* Bataan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan
(The Battle of Bataan [Jan 7 - Apr 9, 1942] is famous in history as one of the last stands of American and Filipino soldiers before they were overwhelmed by the Japanese forces in World War II)
* Battle of Kasserine Pass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kasserine_Pass
* For Task Force Smith, see Battle of Osan  烏山市
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osan