Given today’s high-precision anti-warship cruise missiles, aircraft carriers such as the USS George Washington are considered ideal sitting ducks for target practicing when they move too close to other countries' borders.

July 20, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - The US secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in South Korea for the upcoming joint military drill, which aims at projecting military strength against nuclear-armed North Korea. Clinton is scheduled a visit to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas since an armistice in 1953.

As a portrayal of its military prowess, the United States has sent one of the bigger aircraft carriers called USS George Washington to the area. Cold War period warship could carry over 6000 crewmembers and dozens of aircrafts. These large pieces of floating metal used to be quiet effective during the Cold War era, but  Short of charging their nuclear warheads at once, given today’s high-precision anti-warship cruise missiles, aircraft carriers such as the USS George Washington are considered ideal sitting ducks for target practicing when they move too close to other countries' borders.

Last Week China issued a cautious warning mainly aimed at Washington to refrain from overexposing itself too militarily in waters off China. An official of the Chinese military said US joint military drills with South Korea is a smokescreen to study Chinese naval capabilities in its territorial waters and urged the United States not to get too close to China.

Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary general with the PLA Academy of Military Sciences wrote in China Daily last Friday, ‘…in terms of strategic thinking, China should take into account the worst possibility and strive to seek the best results. The bottom line of strategic thinking is to nip the evil in the bud. The ultimate level of strategic thinking is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Preventing crisis is the best way to resolve and overcome the crisis. China's current tough stance is part of preventive diplomacy.’

The US and right-wing South Korean government in South Korea have kept blaming Pyongyang for the sinking of a military vessel called Cheonan in March which killed 46 sailors. North Korea however denies any involvement in that incident maintaining its powerful military is not designed to carryout such operations especially when it involves harming their brethren from the south. North Korea blames the United States for creating most of the troubles in that part of the world since the Korean War from 1950 to1953.