Taiwanese president shot?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-03-21 06:36pm

The Aliens wrote:Not a military attack- limited sanctions and diplomatic posturing is likely the worst that can happen. The States and Britain know they're in no position for another War with troops deplyoed in the Middle East and Afghanistan- they would have to pull out of there quickly and redeploy.

Umm, no while it's unlikely for the US or anyone to take military action is not because of divisions being tied up in Iraq. We'd never use ground troops against the PRC, which can field about 40 regular divisions and another 1.5 million armed and trained reserve militia, even if not a single US platoon was overseas guarding an embassy. And in terms of air power, Iraq is absorbing no more then it was 2 years ago before the war or build up started while Afghanistan soaks up the equivalent of about one wing. We are using up a lot of vital transport plane sorties to support those areas, but the US government can if it needs to mobilize hundreds of cargo and passenger planes from US airlines. We've also got nothing else of importance keeping a CVBG busy. So an air campaign of a ratherl arge scale could be launched.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-03-21 06:40pm

So if we did go to war with China, what would our strategy most likey be? Simply hammering them with repeated aerial bombardment until their cities lie in ruin and their army has dissipated?

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2004-03-21 09:25pm

HemlockGrey wrote:So if we did go to war with China, what would our strategy most likey be? Simply hammering them with repeated aerial bombardment until their cities lie in ruin and their army has dissipated?

In a war with China, our first worry would probably be North Korea-no way that powderkeg wouldn't go off.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2004-03-21 09:43pm

HemlockGrey wrote:So if we did go to war with China, what would our strategy most likey be? Simply hammering them with repeated aerial bombardment until their cities lie in ruin and their army has dissipated?

Thats about all we can do, cripple the economy through bombing and blockade, and perhapes make some harrasing ground raids against military bases in the western part of the country.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-03-22 07:34am

HemlockGrey wrote:So if we did go to war with China, what would our strategy most likey be? Simply hammering them with repeated aerial bombardment until their cities lie in ruin and their army has dissipated?

There aren't enough bombs in the US arsenal to dissipate the PLA. However, there are plenty of PGMs to completely destroy the Chinese economy and military industry- not to mention enough AAMs to bring down it's entire for the most part mediocre air force, for a good, long time.

Grand Moff Yenchin · Post by **Grand Moff Yenchin** » 2004-03-22 01:08pm

Time for Conspiracy Theory(TM)!!

"Chen pulled this as a stunt to win the election!!!"

(even with all the evidence shown, the Blues are still demanding Chen to pull up his clothes and show the wound

)

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-03-22 08:20pm

Vympel wrote:There aren't enough bombs in the US arsenal to dissipate the PLA. However, there are plenty of PGMs to completely destroy the Chinese economy and military industry- not to mention enough AAMs to bring down it's entire for the most part mediocre air force, for a good, long time.

Also more than enough torpedoes and ASMs to send it's mediocre navy to the bottom. Hell, the USN could probably deal with their navy using SSNs alone...