Posts Tagged ‘People’s Liberation Army’

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 2:39pm

Red Dawn Remake with People’s Liberation Army!

So it looks like the classic 1984 war film Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayzee and Charlie Sheen, is being remade.  This time, though, the Chinese will be the invaders.  If you haven’t seen the original, you should definitely check it out. Red Dawn was listed as #15 on National Review Online’s list of the Best Conservative Movies.

I’m really fired up for this film.  While I’ll miss Swayzee and Sheen, I have high hopes for Connor Cruise, Tom Cruise’s son. More specifically, though, I’m glad that China’s growing military power is starting to get some attention in the popular media. Defense analysts and a handful of policymakers have been watching China’s…

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 7:43pm

Congress Should Launch All-Star Commission to Examine Cyber Threats

A report issued last month by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission concluded:   ”China is likely using its maturing computer network exploitation capability to support intelligence collection against the U.S. Government and industry by conducting a long term, sophisticated, computer network exploitation campaign.”  For the last decade, China has been conducting ”hacker attacks” and network intrusions against U.S. Government and private sector computer networks.  In June 2008, Congressman Frank Wolf (VA-10th) revealed that computers in his office had been hacked; authorities concluded that the attacks originated in China.  Last May, I argued in The Washington Times that our lack of a declaratory cyber deterrence policy makes us weaker as a nation by…

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