LouderVol
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Our government can't resist a good military conflict, and I could almost guarantee that none of the powers I listed would lift a finger to take on China to help Taiwan. We're not being paid to defend the world against communism or terrorists, and frankly I'm sick of us killing our soldiers doing it along with enriching the military industrial complex.
And they were fighting under strength divisions undergoing resupply in a foreign country while their general was away on medical leave and the main military was a continent away.
The Chinese are going to be able to hit every bunker, machine gun post, prepared position near the beach? Taking out the communication wont matter a whole lot to fighting that first wave. Without a.successful first wave the follow up get massacred. The difference between your light casualties and 100% casualties depends on the success of the first waves. Really really difficult to pull troops off a beach. Even worse for any airborne.
Even a couple mini-subs off the coast would reap a huge tally from anyone trying to land.
Now if China preemptively struck and Taiwan had no clue it was coming, then yeah Taiwan goes down fast.
We did by-pass a lot of them that had no airfields on them. The air power will also determine how a China/Taiwan battle would go. China does not have that strong of an Air Force and several thousand stingers on that small Island would play hell with them. When you consider the implications of world economic problems and the fact that they could actually get into a mess that would bring the current power structure down. it makes the risk/reward concerning.Not disagreeing it would be a bloody mess. Rommel was defending a whole coastline with an already overstretched German force and savage Russian campaign at same time.
Look at tiny Taiwan
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Very heavily defensive and with 23 million "defenders", there is no strategic dispersion and nowhere to strategically disperse other than guerrilla warfare. I actually did a gas project for Stingers with Redstone Arsenal back in the 90's for portable AD missiles so they could stage counter missions in the mountains. No big deal but caught my interest. And I tell you what..Hunstville AL was full of Chinese importer/exporters at the time including industrial legal espionage.
It does make me contemplate if the island hopping campaign was the correct call in WW2..Could we have not gone at the throat and let all those islands wither on the vine?
We did by-pass a lot of them that had no airfields on them. The air power will also determine how a China/Taiwan battle would go. China does not have that strong of an Air Force and several thousand stingers on that small Island would play hell with them. When you consider the implications of world economic problems and the fact that they could actually get into a mess that would bring the current power structure down. it makes the risk/reward concerning.
"Where's Rommel?"And they were fighting under strength divisions undergoing resupply in a foreign country while their general was away on medical leave and the main military was a continent away.
The Chinese are going to be able to hit every bunker, machine gun post, prepared position near the beach? Taking out the communication wont matter a whole lot to fighting that first wave. Without a.successful first wave the follow up get massacred. The difference between your light casualties and 100% casualties depends on the success of the first waves. Really really difficult to pull troops off a beach. Even worse for any airborne.
Even a couple mini-subs off the coast would reap a huge tally from anyone trying to land.
Now if China preemptively struck and Taiwan had no clue it was coming, then yeah Taiwan goes down fast.
How vulnerable is the shield? That Russian ship was hit a few weeks ago.
WW3 has already started