I'd be curious to know how many of the Chinese and other nations sailors participating in this year's RIMPAC have Intelligence backgrounds.
Regardless of the motives and methods used to collect intelligence on each other, RIMPAC is a huge exercise and I'm hopeful that a lot of good was accomplished during RIMPAC 2014.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
From what I have read and in talking with the few folks I know who are still serving in the USN and USMC, the official main theme of RIMPAC 2014 was focused on interoperability and mulch-national support of disaster recovery. That's an easy sale to the press and the public and it's easy to support when examples like Fukushima and the various Tsunamis and Typhoons in recent history across the Pacific.
The Chinese and most of out adversaries know too much about the US DoD systems we have deployed in the field and a lot of that information has been volunteered by us to anyone who wants the information for the cost of the time it will take them to get it from open sources.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
