{"id":100,"date":"2006-11-18T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2006-11-18T20:28:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T12:28:30","slug":"oxcart-deployment-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"OXCART Deployment Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/oxcart_1s.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=99\">MN Air Guard Museum to Lose Its A-12<\/a><\/strong>, I wrote that the A-12 had nothing to do with Taiwan.\u00a0 Actually I was kindof hesitant when I was writing because I had no proof.\u00a0 So I dug into my archive trying to find anything that could show otherwise.\u00a0 Though I have not discovered anything explicitly stating Taiwan was involved, I found a document titled <strong>OXCART Deployment Proposal<\/strong>, which was prepared in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed deployment was later materialized as Project BLACK SHIELD, staging out of Kadena AFB on Okinawa.\u00a0 The primary target was North Vietnam; North Korea was added to the target list in the wake of the Pueblo incident.\u00a0 However, the original proposal identified South China as the major target for the deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal also summarized potential reactions of countries at stake in Section IX.\u00a0 China, North Vietnam, Soviet Union, and Japan were all explicitly mentioned.\u00a0 But paragraph E was censored in the document declassification process.\u00a0 This paragraph is considerable longer than others in Section IX.\u00a0 Which other country might have reactions at that time and is sensitive enough for the US government not to reveal in 2004?\u00a0 I am leaving the question to you.\u00a0 (Click the images below to enlarge.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Click to enlarge\" href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/oxcart_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/oxcart_2s.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Click to enlarge\" href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/oxcart_3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/oxcart_3s.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the post MN Air Guard Museum to Lose Its A-12, I wrote that the A-12 had nothing to do with Taiwan.\u00a0 Actually I was kindof hesitant when I was writing because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}