You’re discounting their drone and missile stockpiles. They have the capacity to produce drone motors in an automated capacity 24 hours a day. They can launch an endless barrage at our navy. Our cruisers and destroyers carry what 100 anti missile and drone weapons before they need to resupply, and China could launch them from well inland out of range for our naval guns. We built a military designed for old battle doctrines and we are behind in adapting to new tactics.
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But NOT out of range of our air force.
We haven’t figured it out yet. They have effective air control and superiority with this dong feng missiles admittedly so by our military. They have thousands of these type missiles in there rocket force.
Now you’re adding another element, which is logical, where would the aircraft operate from? Again, China’s proximity to Taiwan gives it a huge advantage. Though we hold a position of strength in the air, China has closed the gap with their weapon systems. At some point we would need boots to hold and defend Taiwan, right?
Which DongFeng missiles do you mean?
There are a bunch of different classes of that.
As far as ICBMs…they aren’t even close.
We and Russia have FAR more of those than anyone else.
We’ve got bases all over Bro.
No military in the world is more forward positioned than ours.
Not only that, but we also have a far larger network of allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific that would assist us with landing and refueling in the event of a war with China than China has.
If war broke out in the Indo-Pacific…China would be hard pressed to find many allies and partners in the region other than North Korea. Russia’s influence in the Pacific rim is limited.
Even Communist Vietnam would side with the USA in such a conflict, and, in fact, is already considered a strategic partner of the United States, precisely because of disputes with China in the South China sea.
No.
Our air force is about FOUR TIMES the size of China’s in terms of number of aircraft…AND our aircraft are far more advanced as well.
If our AC are sitting in Hawaii because our military doesn’t want to put them in harms way they will have effective air control.
Except that won’t be what happens.
If China attacks Taiwan, trust me…our forces WILL be engaging theirs.
PRINT IT.
They aren’t just going to be sitting there on the ground in Hawaii. They will engage the Chinese, and we have a far larger network of allies and partners in the region that will assist us in landing and refueling as well.
And Hawaii is hardly our only air or naval base in the Indo-Pacific.
I know we got Guam they got missile for Guam the Guam killer, I know we have Australia, Japan, Philippines, etc etc they got countermeasures for those contingencies I am sure. Hell this is the civilization that wrote the book on war “Art of War” by Sun Tzu, which every military academy in the world studies
Yeah, so?
When was the last time the PRC won a war?
Hint: they haven’t even fought one since the 1970s in Vietnam…and that didn’t exactly go well for them.
We killed about eight or nine times as many of them as they did or us in Korea. They didn’t win that one either.
I’m going to use the disclaimer that all investment prospectus’ say “past performance is not a guarantee of current or future performance”.
Again…tell me how many allies China has in the Indo-Pacific.
I’ll give you a hint:
One or two. North Korea and maybe Cambodia depending on who you ask.
And consider this. That greatly complicates China’s ability to respond, because any Chinese attack on any of those many allies and partners would likely draw that other country into the war on OUR side.
That’s an advantage that China simply doesn’t have.
Consider that…BEFORE gettin’ so SKEEEERED.
It’s not a guarantee, but it’s the best predictor we have.
See my post on allies and partnerships.
In addition to five treaty allies in the region, we have strategic partnerships with nearly all Indo-Pacific countries except China and North Korea (Cambodia is somewhat debatable).
It’s an advantage that China cannot possibly deal with effectively. Too many different targeting concerns.
No disputing what you’re saying we do have a vast alliance network, but war only tells you how reliable or unreliable these so call allies will be in wartime. Aussies the Kiwis, Taiwanese we can depend on the Phillipines, maybe Japan and S Korea. Thailand?
I can tell you straight up that we can DEFINITELY depend on all five of our treaty allies in the region (Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, and Australia). Through Australia’s alliance with New Zealand, we can count on them as well.
As France is a member of NATO (and as such, another US treaty ally) that still has colonies in the Indo-Pacific, we can likewise count on them.
Among partners other than treaty allies, we can also count on Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan itself (we only have informal relations with them, but we still arm and equip them) Mongolia, and probably India and Singapore as well. Several of those countries already have disputes with China in the South China sea.
You seem to forget that my last assignment was as a foreign area officer at the US Army Pacific Headquarters.
I tend to know a bit about this topic.
No I haven’t, I’ll concede to your firsthand knowledge Colonel.
Even Cambodia is a nation that China may not be able to count on as much as in the past.
During my time at US Army Pacific, they were a country with which our strategic engagement was VERY limited.
But that started to change this year, for reasons I’m not really up on.
See here.
Even our old enemy Vietnam is now leaning towards the USA.
Hopefully a strong alliance network will make China think twice before launching any gambit for Taiwan. U.S. will make it a hollow victory by destroying Taiwan’s chip making foundries. Before any attempted invasion
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