If Japan were smart they would develop numerous squadrons of stealthy, pilotless drones that would make a sea based invasionof Japan impossible. Stealthy, hard hitting drones that can be launched from cruise missiles,planes and submarines as well as land bases have made suface combatants and armor formations obsolete. Technology has altered combat realities beyond the perception of most senior officers in the world’s armed forces. Many young,brave men will die horrible deaths before the new realities are understood and appreciated.
Yep. Like cavalry charges on horseback vs maxim guns in WW1. Needed a big tac change after a few of those.
Yep. Thus, wealth, technology, and manufacturing.
Warfare will increasingly be remote, AI, robotics, drones, and computers and less soldiers, airman, or sailors.
Japan was already trying to beef up their military in response to Chinese aggression and the Norks playing with their toys. Their Air Force and Navy are not big, but they are very capable so I think they will focus more on “Fortress Japan” and less on force projection beyond their own shores.
Had Trump not been robbed of a second term it was likely, if not probable, that a much stronger Southeast Asian alliance would have been formed against China. I think Trump wanted to push us closer to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and India and continue divestment from China by US business.
China defeated Trump with the aid of their fellow communists here in the US.
Isn’t it crazy that so few blame them for Covid and all the damage it has wrought throughout the world? Had China been more forthright about the pandemic at the outset there could have been far less damage done and there is little doubt in my mind that we would be enjoying the second term of Trump and a much more peaceful world.