Behind his desk, bookshelves are stacked with accounts of world affairs. “In reading history, it is those countries with militaries who are prepared and ready that fare much better than countries that have no militaries and aren’t,” he said.
The admiral talks about how his forces must be ready “to fight tonight.” One of his recent reads, “This Kind of War,” by T. R. Fehrenbach, about the Korean War, drove that point home. “He says the United States was not ready,” he said. “It is really a powerful book.”
Correction: May 6, 2016
Because of a transcription error, an earlier version of this article misquoted Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. He said, “In the China piece, we just have to be ready for all outcomes from a position of strength,” not “from a position of strategy.”
萊七逃 wrote:
我都是看到中國亂說，...(恕刪)
