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dragonridr
OccamsRazor04
EA006
reply to post by Argyll
They can, but they won't. China takes one island, then another, then another. The U.S does nothing.
China has a strong military easily transported to the area. Boots on the ground. The U.S does nothing.
China flips off America.....you see where this is going.
China is an ant right now anywhere outside the Chinese mainland. They have zero force projection power and would be completely unable to land any boot anywhere without US allowance. In 15-20 years this might have changed, but right now China is more than happy to not spend money on force projection and allow the US to spend it's money ensuring the trade security China enjoys.
Well in truth if a battle did occur at first the air war would be costly but eventually id say a month the US would own the skies over China then its over. You can look at Iraq control the skies you control the country. Of course provided id stayed conventional
edit on 1/12/14 by dragonridr because: (no reason given)
elysiumfire
OccamsRazor04:
They have zero force projection power...
They are a nuclear armed country, you don't get more projection power than that! I'll bet they are more willing to die for their country than Americans are for theirs, and they can absorb the loss much better. Americans, eh...think they can act militarily with impunity. America got its ass handed to it in Vietnam, China is a fair number of magnitudes above Vietnam. Hey, by all means, underestimate China, They would love you to do so.
elysiumfire
They certainly seem to act with all the precocity of children. We have one claiming that the Chinese have no projection power, yet they can easily reach American cities with their nukes. They can certainly hit Japan.
ketsuko
reply to post by Krazysh0t
Well, we've got the same problem in reverse, and I just don't see the American people backing a war in China.
Well in truth if a battle did occur at first the air war would be costly but eventually id say a month the US would own the skies over China then its over. You can look at Iraq control the skies you control the country.
ketsuko
reply to post by Krazysh0t
They have the men to make it really ugly is all I'm saying.
TDawgRex
OccamsRazor04
TDawgRex
reply to post by OccamsRazor04
I was with you until you said "impossible".
No, I said all BUT impossible. Please feel free to read it again.
That means not impossible, just extremely improbable.
Ok, got it.
I must have missed that.
Please show me what China has that would allow it to either A) bomb the US mainland via aircraft or B) land troops in the US mainland. I will wait for it.
ketsuko
reply to post by elysiumfire
It's not that they can't hit us with anything. I think what the poster in question was relying on was MAD. If they hit us with nukes, we hit them back unless they feel their cyberattack capability is enough to scramble our launch ability and keep us from counterattacking.
And then there is the added dimension of space weaponry. Do they have satellites that can knock missiles out of the sky? I doubt it. Do we? I don't know.edit on 12-1-2014 by ketsuko because: (no reason given)
How does having nuclear weapons magically allow you to transport troops over the Pacific to the US mainland?
dragonridr
OccamsRazor04
EA006
reply to post by Argyll
They can, but they won't. China takes one island, then another, then another. The U.S does nothing.
China has a strong military easily transported to the area. Boots on the ground. The U.S does nothing.
China flips off America.....you see where this is going.
China is an ant right now anywhere outside the Chinese mainland. They have zero force projection power and would be completely unable to land any boot anywhere without US allowance. In 15-20 years this might have changed, but right now China is more than happy to not spend money on force projection and allow the US to spend it's money ensuring the trade security China enjoys.
Well in truth if a battle did occur at first the air war would be costly but eventually id say a month the US would own the skies over China then its over. You can look at Iraq control the skies you control the country. Of course provided id stayed conventional
edit on 1/12/14 by dragonridr because: (no reason given)
EA006
Please show me what China has that would allow it to either A) bomb the US mainland via aircraft or B) land troops in the US mainland. I will wait for it.
All warfare is based on deception. China has friends with this capacity, even if and i doubt this, they can't get them there themselves.
ketsuko
reply to post by OccamsRazor04
I guess it depends on where the theater winds up being. Are we assuming an invasion of US soil or fighting over in Asia again? If the latter, does it matter that they can't send their men our way? We would be coming to them.