川普任命的国防部长 Pete Hegseth 不久前参加了Shawn Ryan Show，3分27秒开始谈到中国和美国的实力对比

主持人：中国海军比美国更大。我记不清他们每年还是每几个月就能建造一艘新的航空母舰，我们做不到

Pete Hegseth：在过去 X 年里，10、12、15 年，我们每次在五角大楼的与中国的军事演习中都会失败，我们知道我们的实际能力。

如果 15 枚高超音速导弹可以在冲突开始后的 20 分钟内摧毁我们的 10 艘航空母舰，那会是什么样子呢？

Shawn Ryan：China's Navy is astronomically bigger than what we have now. At this point when they're building, I can't remember, is it like a new aircraft carrier every year or every couple months or something like that? We can't do that.

Pete Hegseth：The Pentagon is in the book the exact amount of years. But in the past X number of years, 10, 12, 15. The Pentagon has a perfect record in all of its war games against China. We lose every time inside the Pentagon war games, we know what our real capability. You see, we didn't even get to this part of the war on warriors. I mean, the military industrial complex. The way we procure weapons systems, you know, we're always. The way our system works, the way our bureaucratic system works, where the speed of weapons procurement works. We're always a decade behind in fighting the last war. Whereas China, we have. What did Rumsfeld say? You go to the war of the army. You have. China's building an army specifically dedicated to defeating the United States of America. That is their strategic outset. Take hypersonic missiles. So if our Whole power projection platform is aircraft carriers and the ability to project power that way strategically around the globe. And yeah, we have a nuclear triad and all of that, but a big part. And if 15 hypersonic missiles can take out our 10 aircraft carriers in the first 20 minutes of a conflict, what does that look like?

哀兵必胜。还是表要理他为好。