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To: allendale

Taiwan has very good defenses. They have artillery hardened and set to cover the few beaches where anyone could land. They have pipes underground to pump gasoline to those beaches. And much much more. Taiwan is no pushover

Chinese troops need counselors when they spend a week in the field. Their troops are called “little princes”. Also the Command echelon allows no decision making capacity to even Regiment leaders, much less company commanders

Any invasion would be a bloodbath for China.


90 posted on 01/07/2026 9:25:55 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: Seruzawa
"...Also the Command echelon allows no decision making capacity to even Regiment leaders, much less company commanders..."

As I stated above, I believe in authoritarian societies, the miliitary is limited in this respect because it is ingrained from birth to what happens when and individual exercises his own initiative. That is discouraged.

It doesn't necessarily mean a military is going to be "bad"...it just means that they cannot realize their full potential.

It is a form of waste endemic to collectivist societies, and by nature, it infects their militaries.

93 posted on 01/07/2026 9:31:42 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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