[misterrob]

As long as we have nuke subs that roam the ocean we can wipe them out. 100 nuke missiles targeted at their cities, dams, ports and military bases means they cease to be an operating country.

What I am talking about here is the M.A.D. Doctrine that we had with the Russians.

[steve-b]

As long as we have nuke subs that roam the ocean we can wipe them out. 100 nuke missiles targeted at their cities, dams, ports and military bases means they cease to be an operating country. What I am talking about here is the M.A.D. Doctrine that we had with the Russians.

True. Whatever else can be said about them, the rulers of China are basically driven by rational self-interest (like the old Soviet leadership, and unlike the Islamic Fundamentalist terror networks).

[PetroniusMaximus]

“As long as we have nuke subs that roam the ocean we can wipe them out. “

But we gotta have the will to use them.

25 years from now will Democrat/Socialist thinking have so permeated America that we would rather lay down than fight???

We’re almost there now.