The photo of the captain of the USS Mastin “crossing his feet” to look at the Liaoning has sparked a lot of controversy.
A formation of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning recently practiced near the Luzon Strait. The U.S. Navy released photos on Sunday (4) of the U.S. destroyer USS Mastin observing the Liaoning’s movements at close range, and the photo of the USS Mastin’s captain “crossing his feet” to look at the Liaoning has sparked much debate. Some military experts say the U.S. military’s move is a gesture of cognitive warfare against the Chinese Communist Party, saying that the Liaoning is not enough to be feared and that the Liaoning’s escort force is insufficient.
A photo released by the U.S. Navy on its official website, Amecica’s NAVY, shows Lt. Cmdr. Robert J. Briggs, captain of the USS Mustin (DDG 89), and Lt. Cmdr. Richard D. Slye, vice captain of the ship, monitoring the situation from outside the bridge helm. Taiwan’s Central News Agency said the captain was monitoring the Liaoning, a Chinese-made aircraft carrier with the number 16, and that the two ships were only a few thousand feet apart.
The U.S. military is deliberately releasing photos of the “relaxed” PLA surveillance to highlight the fact that the U.S. military does not take the Liaoning into account, said Su Zi-yun, a scholar at Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense think tank and National Defense Security Research Institute.
The reason is that aircraft carriers are platforms for carrier-based aircraft and have limited combat capabilities of their own.
The Central News Agency quoted the former captain of the Navy’s Xinjiang naval ship, the Naval Academy of Military Discipline Department instructor Lv Lishi pointed out that the U.S. military is making “Cognitive Warfare” (Cognitive Warfare) against the Chinese Communist Party, that is, to influence the Chinese Communist Party’s ability to judge the authenticity of information, this photo has important implications for the Communist Party and international, meaning that the U.S. military questions the Communist Party’s maritime The photo is important to the Communist Party and international forces, meaning that the U.S. military has questioned the Communist Party’s ability to fight at sea. Lü Lixi added that “cognitive warfare” used to be a model of information warfare used by Russia and the Chinese Communist Party against Western democracies, but the U.S. military is using “cognitive warfare” to counter it this time. Theoretically, it is unlikely that the captain and vice captain will be outside at the same time to monitor the enemy ship, because in addition to visual surveillance, the Tactical Action Officer (TAO) in the war room must be the captain or vice captain, and constantly monitor the electronic spectrum to avoid electronic attacks and timely countermeasures. It is not known.
The Liaoning combat group, the largest Type 055 guided missile destroyer Nanchang, and the Type 052D guided missile destroyer were separated from the Liaoning strike group and headed north into the Taiwan Strait for unknown reasons.
Su Ziyun analyzed that the Communist Liaoning was staged in the Luzon Strait, while the Chinese Communist military aircraft were rehearsing in the nearby Bus Strait, probably a combination training. As for the Nanchang’s arrival north to the Taiwan Strait, it is possible that they wanted to distance themselves from the battlefield and try to blockade the Taiwan Strait at sea and in the air.
Su Ziyun stressed that an aircraft carrier battle group should have at least five frigates, but the number of frigates near the Liaoning is insufficient.
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