五角大楼打着研究的幌子骗了美国纳税人多少钱？_风闻

看了美国五角大楼发布的年度中国军力发展报告，我笑了。

用谷歌搜出来的有价值的新闻都比他们多。

他们搞这份报告出来，花了$181,000美元，而谷歌给你提供有价值新闻的成本为零，他们对中国未来军力的研究搞五角大楼几个档次。

对于美国国防部和国防承包商而言，过去几十年可以说一帆风顺：预算越来越多，股价也越来越高。然而，中国却利用这段时期为超越和取代西方奠定了基础。北京一直对稀土研究给予直接或间接的资助，并实施技术转让策略，这些努力得到了回报。

中国的进步正在迅速改变全球力量均势，将未来掌握在自己手中。军事专家称，未来的定向能武器（directed energy weapons）将改写或控制战局。而每种定向能武器都需要重稀土和高尖端材料科学能力。中国控制着美国获取这些材料的渠道。这些因素导致中国目前在该领域具备优势，这意味着中国最终将在定向能武器的研发与部署上引领全球。

中美稀土之战

这对五角大楼的专家来说是个坏消息，因为维持美国安全的核心计划是以维持技术领先地位为基础的。中国在五角大楼的观察员们的眼皮底下勇敢地跨过了这道门槛，可后者却视而不见、充耳不闻，并且显然没有后备计划。

那份报告可以点击这里。

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.