Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall issued a “stark warning” that China is preparing for war against the United States, during a Sept. 11 speech at the annual conference of the Air and Space Forces Association. “Today the intelligence couldn’t be clearer. Whatever its actual intentions may be I could not say, but China is preparing for a war and specifically for a war with the United States,” he claimed, reported The Hill. Kendall said the U.S. must be ready for a “kind of war we have no modern experience with,” though he stressed “war is not inevitable.”
“Our job is to deter that war and to be ready to win if it occurs,” Kendall said. “We’re all talking about the fact that the Air and Space Forces must change, or we could fail to prevent and might even lose a war.”
