jhungary
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Well, the thing is. I don't know about the Brits. But for the US, even if you have Chinese national being invite to study in one of our academies (West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Spring) that didn't mean they were taught NATO doctrine.in my view recruiting these retired UK pilots for insight about NATO pilot flying is an admission its inferior. I doubt if NATO has any desire to learn about Chinese secret air tactics.
instead of hating those UK pilots on the social media they should be applauded for impressing Chinese that these are the ways these NATO pilots been flying few years back.
I don't know how much exposure PLAAF has beyond some limited training with Pakistani and Thai air force to get a sense of Western style of training keeping in view that PAF F-16s are strictly excluded from exercising with Chinese on request from USA (although for some humbling experience for the Chinese the Americans should reverse that decision and ask the PAF to specially include the F-16s).
but then again these are my uninformed comments and I haven't graduated from Internet warrior school of Top Gun Rants on PDF/ Youtube so what do I know?
I can't say for sure for other branch, but I am pretty sure Naval and Army is in this case, because we don't teach cadet NATO playbook until they graduate, for the Army, you will need to attend a course after you graduate from Westpoint called Basic Officer Leadership Course (BOLC) there are 2 phases of BOLC, one you do when you are in academy, that's Phase A, which is more or less like Basic Training, Phase B will start when you get your commission, if you are West Pointer or ROTC (Like me) then you will do BOLC-B directly in one of the army School (For me, I did my BOLC-B at Benning at Armor School) , you will do both phase in OCS if you went for direct entry.
You start touching NATO doctrine and tactics in BOLC-B, which almost all of its content is classified, and you have to be commissioned before you can go for it, otherwise you won't have the necessary clearance to even touch the menu.. That is why you see a lot of articles, post or even video on Basic Training or West Point course, but you won't see BOLC-B or AIT being put online, because that is a big no-no. Which mean you will need someone who went thru that phase to teach you how NATO doctrine work, if they just did Basic or even West Point, they wouldn't know shit but basic soldiering.
As for the value of such move. Well, it's depends. but I will agree with you, if you have to resort to this, you are showing your weak hand here, that open door to be manipulated, because you cant be sure that is going to be the right way to go, as I said, there are no way you can vet people for their knowledge, they either know or don't know, either willing to tell you or not willing to tell you, which mean there are always going to be a giant question mark on the info you get from said person, which mean that piece of information is tainted. It's no good
dude, this is not how investigation work, I can tell you as a cop and as someone who interview or interrogate people for a living.Investigative interviewing 101
1. Isolate your candidates and have them provide information individually so they cannot cook up misinformation.
2. Use standardized set of questions and check for common themes.
3. Test and experiment
Really, it wasn't that hard to get former NATO pilots to spill, especially for the right money. The very first group of carrier-based PLAN pilots were reportedly trained by a retired US Navy CAG in the early 2000's, when he was flying civilian airlines for China.
Also, nobody, I will say again, NOBODY will tell you stuff that can get them 20 years in Federal Pen for free. It didn't matter if you don't offer any money in return, the moment you divulge that secret, regardless how small or insignificant it was, you are committing a Class A Federal Felony,
You want info but no money down?? Probably it would happen in your dream.....