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To: church16
uhhh... I'd beg to differ

Go right ahead.

Ping me when the PLA is in Taipei, and I'll say "I told you so".

31 posted on 03/08/2005 8:26:33 PM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Jim Noble

If I ping you about that it will mostly likely be from FL250 overhead, staging out of Korea.... and I don't think it'll ever happen. The PLA will have to invent teleportation before they take Taiwan. The Taiwan straits are protected by distance, lack of amphibs on the PLA's part, and the WHOLE FREAKIN' USN submarine force if needed. It looks easy on paper, but a LARGE scale amphib operation of this magnitude, fighting the USN attack boats and the USAF tac/bomber forces is currently impossible. Period. The only prayer would be if the US chose NOT to defend Taiwan.


40 posted on 03/08/2005 8:38:32 PM PST by church16 (“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence...")
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