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Originally posted by DaMod
Another would be pissing off the largest standing army on earth.
You know what man, I don't want WW3 to occur. I'm sure you can agree with me.
Originally posted by crisko
Originally posted by DaMod
Another would be pissing off the largest standing army on earth.
You know what man, I don't want WW3 to occur. I'm sure you can agree with me.
Assuming no nukes.
The US is set up perfectly to battle any country, not an insurgency.
The Chinese basically have no Navy and a third rate Airforce. The US could set up a barricade on the eastern coast, and basically be able to bomb 500 million people at will. Any chinese resistance in the air would be immediatly shot out of the sky.
The US would also fund and assist separtist groups to the south in Taiwan, and Muslim's to the southwest.
The Iraqis had a relatively large army, one of the top-ten in the world at the time, and we took them out with more accidental casualties than casualties from enemy fire.
The only thing China seems to have up its sleeve is cyber warfare/satellite destruction technology, but the U.S. is by no means a sitting duck in those areas, whereas China has a vastly inferior military in every sense but numbers.
If we aren't talking about occupations I'd give the war a few weeks at the most before the communist government collapsed and we gave Taiwan administrative responsibility. Remember we have large military bases, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan in this region.
It would be no contest.
[edit on 2-2-2010 by crisko]
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
But how accurate and powerful would the military be if the Chinese shot down a heap of US sat's?
WASHINGTON -- The Chinese military used a ground-based missile to hit and destroy one of its aging satellites orbiting more than 500 miles in space last week -- a high-stakes test demonstrating China's ability to target regions of space that are home to US spy satellites and space-based missile defense systems.
The test of anti satellite technology is believed to be the first of its kind in two decades by any nation and raised concerns about the vulnerability of US satellites and a possible arms race in space.