Is our military in the position to truly push back the Chinese? I think that we can definitely project power with a couple of carrier battle groups, but let's face it our boys (and girls) in the Army and Marines are tired. Will they go if asked of course they will, but let's be honest, they are not the sharp sword that they were before Iraq it's more of a big club. The desert takes a toll on the people AND the equipment. Do I believe that we could succeed yes (don't be callin' me a peace-nut yet) but let's be honest the US used our holdings of the British pound during the Suez Canal Incident as a way to keep the British from invading. 600+ billion is no small amount, taken in conjuction with the loss of our manufacturing base, our dependence on China for trade (Wal-mart alone is China's 6th largest buyer of goods) it paints a much darker picture then ones we have faced in the past.
The conventional wisdom on the difference between the Peoples Liberation Army and the USArmy is that they simply don't have the technology to compete with us. I dispute that, Intel has a plant in China now, you can be assured that in the event of war all of our patriotic companies which outsourced the work of Americans for a couple of percent additional profit will be nationalized.
Let me put it this way, I am afraid of the corner we have put ourselves into.
The most dangerous type of animal is a cornered one.
Intel has a plant in China now
If this thing does go real hot, I'd guess its high up on the targeting list.
We won't invade China, we'll bomb them back into the stone age and they know it. They can't win in an exchange of bombs and missiles, and they know it.
those that would take the brunt haven't been as involved in
Iraq as the ground troops -- the subs and other carrier groups.
Any war with Red China will not be a land war on mainland China.