A war with China would be absolutely insane, beyond hell on earth and would last forever, no way we could win against a country with a population of 1.5 BILLION I don’t care how much more advanced we are militarily. How are you going to take a military of about 1.5 million and control 1.5 billion people? Look how long it took to get a handle on Iraq and Afghanistan which is still effed up.
“ A war with China would be absolutely insane, beyond hell on earth and would last forever, no way we could win against a country with a population of 1.5 BILLION I don’t care how much more advanced we are militarily. How are you going to take a military of about 1.5 million and control 1.5 billion people? Look how long it took to get a handle on Iraq and Afghanistan which is still effed up.”
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A war with China would not be nuclear nor traditional war as we may think of it. While there may indeed be incidents of traditional warfare such as with Taiwan, Vietnam, etc, the war between China and the US will be predominantly cyber warfare, cyberspace, satellites, etc. there will not be US boots on the ground on mainland China. Btw, our super carrier fleet is now obsolete much the same as battleships were going into WWII.
You think the CCP can control 1.5 billion people without food?
Red China is much better at destroying its own people than either the Japanese were or we’d ever be. The Japanese fought a limited war in which the destruction of the Chinese people itself was not a goal; they wanted slaves for the emperor. If extermination/total war was the goal, it would not be too difficult to destroy the clean drinking water and food for their billion+.
You do your namesake, "Master Yoda", a disservice when you talk like that, FRiend.
Master Yoda would understand instantly that there are wars, and then there are wars, and still there are other types of wars.
Nobody today can imagine a major war on the Chinese mainland -- not with our existing military, not under today's political & economic realities.
Things would have to change in very drastic ways, for examples: Chinese military invasions of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, India, etc.
Such events would create existential crises that would refocus everything we do and think.
What would be our response?
Impossible to say today, but doubtless there are wargamed contingency plans which include economic, diplomatic and military actions.
A key question is: how would we define "winning" such a war, and would "winning" be achievable?
It's unlikely we'll ever again see existential threats as clear & blatant as the Axis powers of the Second World War.
Since then, all of the world's "little Hitlers" have found more devious methods to fulfill their maniacal dreams...
Well, first of all, IF it came to that, don't wage a war as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan, which btw never attacked us on our homeland as China would.
And China is brittle. Severe damage to their infrastructure and especially to their waterways, would make their leaders extremely unpopular.
China wants to take over a world, not a nuclear wasteland. They're gambling we will play for time and hope to be eaten last.
You don’t fight a land war, you will lose unless you use nukes. You fight a air/sea battle with limited land engagements, similar to the island hoping campaign in the pacific in WWII. You also take the fight to the Chinese airbases with missiles. You can count on a massive cyber attack and we have to be ready and hit back. If you can get India involved you take a lot of pressure off the allied navies in the pacific. When China starts to starve you try to get riots started internally. You starve them and cut out their oil supplies.
The CCP is using Sun Tzu's maxim regarding the achievement of victory without bloodshed (i.e., without physical fighting on a battlefield). The 2020 election theft by the agents of the CCP (the Democrat Party and the Deep State) was a coup attempt. If it isn't stopped before Biden enters the WH, it will have been a successful coup.
The next step, if the coup is successful, will be the CCP's consolidation of its victory by eliminating remaining enemy elements that might stand in its way--particularly in the military and government.
History is full of smaller powers defeating larger ones - our own War of Independence from the British Empire is just one of them. I know that you are going to rebut with the something about the French Navy and the other conflicts the the British were fighting at the time. My counterpoint is that if there is a war between the US and China it is not likely that India, japan, Australia, the U.K. and other powers would sit it out. You have no idea of the animosity and hatred between Japan and China and India is not a fan of China either.