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what about the cold war?
now you cant say you weretn out gunned there, 10-1 fighter ratio is outgunned son.
so you deem the pentagon not important ?
or nelis AFB?
or guantanimo bay?
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Uhh... Cold War we never went to war so you cant say we were outgunned son.
And WTF are you talking about the 10-1 fighter ratio care to explain?
The pentagon is 5x bigger underground that it is aboveground and they probably have back up places they can go to serve as a temporary pentagon incase of an all out nuclear war. The important bases are the ones that are essential to the retaliations and the ones that need to survive the aftermath of a nuclear war. Military bases are important in times or war, but when it comes to an all out nuclear war not all bases are important.
how cant i ? you were almost at war and frankly it was your rival so i would say you were outgunned dont get technical.
also that ratio was the ratio over europe dureing the cold war check the figures if you want!
Originally posted by WestPoint23
What is your point that the US shouldn't have used nukes in WWII?
And ask Tibet about china not invading countries for the purpose of taking them over not for the purpose of taking a dictator out.
Bush has always said china can have Taiwan as long as it does it diplomatically to me this is a diplomatic solution and not as you claim a threat by our President.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
You cant say that for sure. If we had gone to war with the soviets and get beat we would have been outgunned, but we never did so you don't know what would have happened so you cant say we were outgunned.
Ratio over Europe again WTF are you talking about,? I don't remembered the US having air battles during the cold war over Europe with the soviets care to provide links or something?
Most Military bases which serve a purpose of only stating troops and weapons would not survive a nuclear war only. The ones that are built to house important members/people, communications and ICBM�s those are the most important ones when it come to Nuclear War.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Devil who cares how many aircraft they had, we had better quality jets and better trained crew
IMO. And they had the are full of weapons kool no threat the US. Who cares if they roll right over Europe and take Britain France and Germany, the US would not care but we protected your arse for 40 years (with our few bases).
Originally posted by WestPoint23
In the early 1940�s the US knew it had a big bomb that went boom, they did not know it had radiation or any other fallout not even the scientist were sure how powerful it was.
The US was preparing to launch an invasion after they had dropped a couple of nukes in JAPAN, cuz they did not know that our troops were going to suffer from radiation. At that time the bomb was just treated as just another bomb.
We had to drop it because all the Japanese people would of been killed taking the mainland and you would have millions of casualties on both sides.
What ever this is just some Chinese BS saying its on a 2000 year old map OMFG. How retarded is that
man what�s even more funny is china decides after all this time to take it back. Like it was theirs on the first place.
Bush has a very good policy toward Taiwan. Not to aggressive not to soft just the right balance.
Devil who cares how many aircraft they had, we had better quality jets and better trained crew
IMO. And they had the are full of weapons kool no threat the US. Who cares if they roll right over Europe and take Britain France and Germany, the US would not care but we protected your arse for 40 years (with our few bases).
you protected feck all. you protected your own intrests nothing more.
everything else was just a bonus.
That's not quite right Westy.
That rational is just great of you go along with the idea that an invasion was necessary and that a policy of containment until surrender wouldn't have worked.
.....particularly cocky know-alls from a culture still in it's diapers where the tendancy is noteable (and growing) - in all but a very few - to know absolutely nothing about anything outside of ones' own national borders.
Yeah, why should anyone get twitchy about a couple of carrier battle groups in the area in a time of elevated tension? It's meant to help, right? LMAO.
......and it's not like the USA ever launches unprovoked attacks on anyone, ever, right?
...and stop pretending China getting a few old designs of sub from the Russians is suddenly tipping the balance of anything.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
That was the military plan at the time don't balm me for anything that was what our leaders saw was the best way to get an unconventional surrender. Containment would be the same we would cut off all outside ties to Japan and we would have continued bombing them. Which would have caused their propel to starve to death due to lack of supplies and food, dose that sound better to you? Not to mention the secret jets of Japan that we discovered after the war. Some jets were only a couple of months from production and these jets were advanced and would have cost the US more casualties.
Our culture has its roots in ancient Greece and Europe, and Europe is very old. what you could have said was that our nation is still young even though it has risen more in 250 years than china could in 6000+.
No the US does not launch sneaky attacks unprovoked in a situation like this. You think the US would do a pearl harbor type of attack? It would never happen it.
Our carriers are only there to make china think twice before trying to invade Taiwan any action that the Us might take will be triggered by the Chinese that is out policy.
No matter who the Us was fighting for in the European theater is still help the British and French out. Damn French!
No but when you add AL-qada the middle east countries Iran Syria, then you add North Korea, then you add the technology coming out of France and Germany. You add Russia You also add the Chinese threatening to go to war against Taiwan. When you ad all of that, its pretty clear what the situation is.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Even if it was in our self interest it still kept you safe from the Soviets for over 40 years courtesy of the American tax payers.
This 'secret weapon' thinking is such a crock.
Does it? I mean in theory OK but it certainly doesn't demonstrate any of those 'qualities' to any noticable degree.
When you have a few more centuries under your belt we'll talk about 'success' and 'rising' in comparison to China or Europe.
Really? I think you'll find the US has gotten itself into quite a few fights on the most flimsy of 'reasons'
If that is so then why elevate the 'temperature' by sending so many carrier groups out that way?
I don't understand this bit. What is your problem with the French? Does everyone have to agree with you lot all the time to be your friends or something? I mean, it's not like France hasn't played such an important role in US history, is it?
OMG so France and Germany are part of the 'threat' now are they?! LMAO!
The USA has no reason to involve itself alone against either Syria or Iran.....or China for that matter.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Ahh...the chine subs will be sunk before they know what hit them, the US has surface ships nuclear subs and patrol aircraft. When you have this much cover going after a sub which has to surface it will be caught at one point or another.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
Devil what ultimately caused the USSR not to roll over Europe? You think they were afraid of you few tanks and posts in the borders. Hell no they were afraid of the Retaliation of the US. They would have talked Europe easy if the US did not keep the pressure on them.
Originally posted by Deadallready
America is never out gunned. That is why the red team uses low grade tatics to win every war game at the war college. You cannot ever defeat us head to head.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
No other country has wielded this much power in so little time.
Originally posted by zcheng
China just leaked the news that Chinese intermediate missile successfully destroyed moving target with high speed and high accuracy.
Originally posted by Cjwinnit
Originally posted by zcheng
China just leaked the news that Chinese intermediate missile successfully destroyed moving target with high speed and high accuracy.
Well, if it's anything like a Silkworm, all the US need is one allied destroyer less than fourty years old nearby to shoot it down
No other country has wielded this much power in so little time
Originally posted by WestPoint23
No it is not they had the potential to develop them.
And containment would have dragged the war on more and starved their people to death wow sounds much better than dropping two nukes to end the war.
In theory? What do you call our system of laws and our democracy the same as ancient Greece and ancient Europe.
Sure we are still young but we have risen a very noticeable amount in our 250 years. No other country has wielded this much power in so little time maybe ancient Rome but they took a long time to gain their �power�.
What does this have to do with sneaky or preemptive strikes without a declaration of war? Going to war on faulty Intel is much different than staging a pearl harbor style attack.
Elevate the Tension we are simply making sure nothing happens to Taiwan.
Like I said china has nothing to worry about unless they attack first, the US will not launch a preemptive strike without a declaration of war or without an attack by china. SO unless china is planning to attack, than maybe this is why they are agitated.
Oh the fact that they try to make it as difficult as they can for the US. Stalling and slowing down sending troops to Afghanistan. slowing down the process or training Iraqi troops. And of course taking illegal money form saddam while they vetoed the war in Iraq.
Only if Syria harbors terrorists and cooperates with them
And no reason to br involved in Iran? Are you insane? Iran is repeatedly refusing and breaking its treaty that it signed and saying they will use their nuclear material for their military. AKA Nukes. this cannot be allowed especially in this day and age and not Iran of all places.
Devil what ultimately caused the USSR not to roll over Europe?
You think they were afraid of you few tanks and posts in the borders. Hell no they were afraid of the Retaliation of the US.
They would have talked Europe easy if the US did not keep the pressure on them.
No the US does not launch sneaky attacks unprovoked in a situation like this. You think the US would do a pearl harbor type of attack? It would never happen it. Our carriers are only there to make china think twice before trying to invade Taiwan any action that the Us might take will be triggered by the Chinese that is out policy. - Westpoint