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The reason why no nation, ever would kick our asses, is because this is AMERICA, and as long as we have leadership willing to kick butt, we don't lose. We can hire the best from ANY nation to do the math that our kids cant do, if need be.

You're not inspiring a lot of confidence in me with that reasoning. You do realize, don't you, that the Chinese probably get 10 times the bang for the buck when employing technicians?

And also, your prerequisite of America having leadership that is "willing to kick butt" is not too inspiring given the fact that this *is* the country that put Bill Clinton (not to mention Jimmy Carter) into office.

A few months ago I got a little nostalgic for some of those more advanced defense-oriented technologies I used to work with, so I did a little Googling. What I found that was more than a bit unnerving is that the great majority of the whitepapers written today on these subjects are from Chinese universities!

And, finally, you mention that China would have a hard time coming over here to beat us. I can assure you that our defeat at sea would be all that is required. America is propped up by foreign investment that would quickly begin to disappear under such circumstances. And, given our dependence on importing not only equipment - but also food - a simple naval blockade would have us at one-another's throats in days - no foreign soldiers on the ground needed.

I guess it all depends on how you define "defeat".

I can assure you that our defeat at sea would be all that is required.

That is a tall order, indeed. Not one to be glossed over so easily.

America is propped up by foreign investment that would quickly begin to disappear under such circumstances.

All major economic powers today are interdependent. Anybody who would 'shut off' any economic activities here would be devastated by any retaliatory actions we would take (i.e. nationalizing/siezing manufacturing plants, financial assets, etc).

We need to be fighting here at home against our enemies within who defend and advance their socialist agenda. China should be cultivated as an ally (with a different govt, of course)

a simple naval blockade would have us at one-another's throats in days - no foreign soldiers on the ground needed.

And just who is going to blockade us?

Or a better question might be, who is going to bring a the equipment to blockade us within 1000 miles of our shoreline and not get blown to bits?

At a particular DEFCON, we don't ask who you are or what you are doing near our shores, we just blow your ass up.