The American wing commander warned that he believes there is a high risk United States of America go to war with China in 2025 probably for her Taiwanurging his people to be ready for battle this year.

“Hopefully I’m wrong. My intuition tells me we’ll be at war in 2025,” Michael Minihan, a US Air Force wing general, wrote in an internal memo, the authenticity of which the Pentagon confirmed to AFP on Friday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will have “command, motivation and capability” in 2025, a senior US military officer says, predicting the island’s 2024 election will give the Chinese leader “a reason” to act.

“Mark on the Head”

He also believes that the 2024 US election will also offer Beijing a “distracted” America.

In his note, he urges his men to be trained in combat operations, including marksmanship: “Mark in the head,” exhorts the flight commander.

In August, China launched large-scale military exercises around Taiwan in an unprecedented show of force in response to a visit to the island by then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

China considered the island of 24 million to be its province until reunification with the mainland after the end of the civil war in 1949.

He has watched with growing displeasure the strained relations between Taipei and Washington in recent years, which has been providing Taiwan with military aid for decades.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}