Taiwan is 20 times larger than Okinawa, with a much greater population.
Once China invades Taiwan, we’ll do nothing. The USA of 2021 is in no way going to gear up for Okinawa X 20 to eject the ChiComs.
Plus, our USN warships will be in Chinese conventional missile range long before they approach Taiwan. This will not be a case, as with Okinawa, of anchoring offshore and sending in Marines and soldiers.
Once China invades Taiwan, it’s a done deal, over.
The United States has not been prepared - logistically, doctrinally, spiritually or emotionally since 1983 at the latest, and probably since Uncle Tai’s Hunan Yuan opened in Manhattan after Nixon’s trip to China.
We were not going back to Moo Goo Gai Pan after that.
Seriously - history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. I was born less than five years after the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri and I was brought up in one of the houses that sprouted up out of the potato fields of Long Island. Kids in my class lost their fathers in Korea.
“We did it before, and we can do it again”
Actually, no, we can’t. Mao said the US was a paper tiger, and he was absolutely correct. Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima were won in part as battles in a race war, and we don’t do that any more.
Vietnam was the tragedy. Sacrificing the US Navy in a vain effort to prevent the inevitable would be the farce.