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Originally posted by Expat888
Lmfao.. If china wanted to hurt the u.s they wouldnt have to fire a shot.. Just call in the note on the loans they make and bankrupt your arses. Dizzy City just crying because china wont become yet another u.s puppet as they know full well what becomes of countries that become u.s puppets.. Besides at the rate your politicians are taking your freedom you should be more afraid of them than of china.. At least china is gradually giving its people more freedom..
Originally posted by Expat888
Lmfao.. If china wanted to hurt the u.s they wouldnt have to fire a shot.. Just call in the note on the loans they make and bankrupt your arses. Dizzy City just crying because china wont become yet another u.s puppet as they know full well what becomes of countries that become u.s puppets.. Besides at the rate your politicians are taking your freedom you should be more afraid of them than of china.. At least china is gradually giving its people more freedom..
Originally posted by one4all
The baby boomers have been getting ready for this war their whole lives,they are the bait,I never expected the boomers to surrender the future without a fight.They will level the playing field as they exit this world,be sure of it,Chinas culture has no idea what true total sacrifice is all about,their culture has been comfortable for thousands of years while many others struggled as pioneer states and countries.The boomers come from TOUGH STOCK .
Originally posted by empireofpain
Are all of you high? we dwarf china militarily!
Our airforce is triple the size of chinas.
USA AIRFORCE- 5,200
CHINA AIRFORCE- 1,900
Not only that but china's majority of fighters and bombers are vietnam era and wold be massacred by american fighters.
Our navy is the largest on the earth.
USA NAVY SHIPS-1,559
CHINA NAVY SHIPS-760
Once again and these are vietnam era and need to be upgraded.
USA DESTROYERS-50
CHINA DESTROYERS-21
USA FRIGATES-92
CHINA FRIGATES-42
And finally we have the aircraft carriers for which the united states has no one even close to being equal.
USA AIRCRAFT CARRIERS-11
CHINA-1
china plans to build 2 more which would bring tehere total to three.....while the USA plans to build 7-10 more.
Keep in mind that the US aircraft carriers can stay in the water 24/7 seven days a week because of the nuclear reactor in the carriers.
None of you have ANY idea how outmatched china is.
Originally posted by empireofpainNone of you have ANY idea how outmatched china is.
Originally posted by Karilla
Originally posted by empireofpainNone of you have ANY idea how outmatched china is.
If it was always (or ever?) a matter of numbers of ships involved in a naval encounter, disregarding the lack of an appropriate modern theatre in which to stage such a naval engagement in the modern era, The US would have been soundly defeated by the Japanese in the Pacific, Nelson would have had his arse handed to him by the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar and Drake's pitifully small fleet would have been sunk without trace by the Spanish Armada.
Originally posted by gixxerblade
Originally posted by Expat888
Lmfao.. If china wanted to hurt the u.s they wouldnt have to fire a shot.. Just call in the note on the loans they make and bankrupt your arses. Dizzy City just crying because china wont become yet another u.s puppet as they know full well what becomes of countries that become u.s puppets.. Besides at the rate your politicians are taking your freedom you should be more afraid of them than of china.. At least china is gradually giving its people more freedom..
Not to be mean but where are you from? If you are a Brit (or European!) then having politicians removing freedoms is something that you should be very familiar with. China can barely afford to feed its own people. Its smoke and mirrors. Its a curious state over in the far east because even though they are appearing more open they are still a pretty closed society.
Originally posted by empireofpain
True but keep in mind that the united states navy is the most technologically advanced trained navy in the world.
Originally posted by empireofpain
Originally posted by Karilla
Originally posted by empireofpainNone of you have ANY idea how outmatched china is.
If it was always (or ever?) a matter of numbers of ships involved in a naval encounter, disregarding the lack of an appropriate modern theatre in which to stage such a naval engagement in the modern era, The US would have been soundly defeated by the Japanese in the Pacific, Nelson would have had his arse handed to him by the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar and Drake's pitifully small fleet would have been sunk without trace by the Spanish Armada.
True but keep in mind that the united states navy is the most technologically advanced trained navy in the world.
Originally posted by Danbones
the brit commander in Afghanistan just said that the war is not winnable
afganistan is a fraction of china
i don't know how you get around that fact
Originally posted by spy66
Funny no one has made a post about it her on ATS.
Originally posted by Karilla
Originally posted by spy66
Funny no one has made a post about it her on ATS.
They have, here:
General Petraeus passing out during senate armed services committee meeting
[edit on 16-6-2010 by Karilla]
Total war is a war limitless in its scope in which a belligerent engages in the mobilization of all their available resources, in order to render beyond use their rival's capacity for resistance.
The practice of total war has been in use for centuries, but it was only in the middle to late 19th century that total war was identified by scholars as a separate class of warfare. In a total war, there is less and sometimes no differentiation between combatants and non-combatants (civilians) than in other conflicts, as nearly every human resource, civilians and soldiers alike, can be considered to be part of the belligerent effort.