五角大樓打着研究的幌子騙了美國納税人多少錢？_風聞

看了美國五角大樓發佈的年度中國軍力發展報告，我笑了。

用谷歌搜出來的有價值的新聞都比他們多。

他們搞這份報告出來，花了$181,000美元，而谷歌給你提供有價值新聞的成本為零，他們對中國未來軍力的研究搞五角大樓幾個檔次。

對於美國國防部和國防承包商而言，過去幾十年可以説一帆風順：預算越來越多，股價也越來越高。然而，中國卻利用這段時期為超越和取代西方奠定了基礎。北京一直對稀土研究給予直接或間接的資助，並實施技術轉讓策略，這些努力得到了回報。

中國的進步正在迅速改變全球力量均勢，將未來掌握在自己手中。軍事專家稱，未來的定向能武器（directed energy weapons）將改寫或控制戰局。而每種定向能武器都需要重稀土和高尖端材料科學能力。中國控制着美國獲取這些材料的渠道。這些因素導致中國目前在該領域具備優勢，這意味着中國最終將在定向能武器的研發與部署上引領全球。

中美稀土之戰

這對五角大樓的專家來説是個壞消息，因為維持美國安全的核心計劃是以維持技術領先地位為基礎的。中國在五角大樓的觀察員們的眼皮底下勇敢地跨過了這道門檻，可後者卻視而不見、充耳不聞，並且顯然沒有後備計劃。

那份報告可以點擊這裏。

All of this is bad news for the Pentagon whose central plan for our Nation’s security, termed “The 3rd Offset Strategy ,” just assumed U.S. technological leadership over our rivals. The ‘plan’ did not self-execute. U.S. technological leadership has been largely off-shored to China while the Pentagon focused on a series of intractable / unwinnable wars and the continued production of rare earth dependent, unreliable and over-priced weapons systems that perform disastrously in war game simulations.  

Putting all China-phobia aside, China has boldly crossed this threshold in plain view. In fact, most of what it did or planned to do was outlined in the 1999 Cox Report or was publicly available in Chinese documents. The Pentagon, Congress and the last 2 Administrations were repeatedly briefed on China’s strategy but failed to take any corrective action.

The total global value of mined rare earths is less than $500 million, while refined rare earth oxides are worth about $3 billion per year. The annual refined production of these resources is less than 200,000 metric tons per year[iii]. However, China controls access to all[iv] post rare earth oxide materials that are critical to over $7 trillion in technological goods and other refined resources[v]. This gives China leverage over U.S. and NATO defense contractors and global technology companies.