This should not be surprising. The Chinese military has not engaged an enemy since the Vietnamese bloodied their nose in the late seventies. They have no officer corps with combat experience. Dittoes NCO's, the guts of any military. Their weapons have not been proven under combat conditions, and the years of peace have rendered their careerists corrupt.
Like North Korea, a formidable force--on paper.
By contrast look at the US military--fatigued perhaps from years of continuous hostilities but with an officer corps and cadre of NCO's who know what combat is all about. A wealth of experience using the latest weapons available, their strengths and weaknesses. In a hot war the US would have major advantages over either of these preposterous foes.
But like the paper dragons, our major weakness is political malfeasance from the top down, and that cannot be fixed by the men in uniform.
Buzzard, the CHICOM fought us to a standstill in Korea, and took a million and a half KIA to do it. The NVA maneuvered us out of Vietnam, and they took a million and half KIA just to make us leave.
Today's CHICOM wouldn't mind taking casualties either. They can afford it and know now that we have no stomach for wars of attrition.
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04/19/2012 2:05:43 PM PDT by
Kenny Bunk
(So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)