Anonymous #1 4d

And what’s to assume we wouldn’t suffer the same with China should we win the conventional period of warfare? If we have a superior military in the symmetric sense.

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Anonymous OP 4d

Both the U.S. and China would take unbelievable losses in a conventional war, there’s no denying that. What I’m getting at is the mistake of looking at a conflict like Afghanistan, where our “defeat” came from our enemy hiding in another country and coming back after we left, or in Iran, where we wiped out their military and now just don’t want to go through a waterway that’s been mined

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Anonymous OP 4d

Additionally, Iran’s Hormuz advantage in this conflict is actually our Malacca advantage in a China scenario. We could shut dos the Strait of Malacca and China would be screwed logistically.

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Anonymous OP 4d

At the end of the day, no military can defeat the U.S. going head to head in neutral ground. But, if you have the advantage of being in the defense, on your home field, and a willingness to absorb a horrific level of casualties, you can simply survive until the U.S. decides the conflict isn’t worth it.

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Anonymous #1 4d

Fair point. I just don’t see this playing out any differently than Vietnam or any other Middle East war we’ve been in

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Anonymous OP 4d

Vietnam ended the way it did because the U.S. didn’t commit to an invasion, and because a peace treaty was signed that ended the war on good terms, with the NVA then breaking the treaty after we departed. I just feel like China is viewed as some unstoppable machine, when they lost the last war they fought, quite badly, which was almost 50 years ago.

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Anonymous OP 4d

Let’s not forget that the Chinese have purged almost their entire command staff for “loyalty” concerns, and we’ve just watched Chinese air defense systems completely fail in Iran and Venezuela

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Anonymous OP 4d

Sorry I forgot to answer the other part of your first question. A war with China would only be conventional. The only counterinsurgency scenario is the PLA themselves if they make landfall on Taiwan. We wouldn’t be attempting an invasion of China

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Anonymous OP 4d

War has largely evolved. A conflict either China more than likely would see 0 boots on the ground, we’d just bomb the shit out of everything. I honestly feel that we might not even help Taiwan, it could be a huge bluff.

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Anonymous #2 4d

You don’t think war with China would devolve to be that eventually? In a massive, mountainous country of a billion people?

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Anonymous #4 4d

No because the U.S. wouldn’t fucking invade China my guy. I mean seriously? We’re talking about pushing back an invasion of Taiwan, nobody serious has ever suggested that an invasion of China is on the table. Do you people do any research at ALL?

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