Geeze that is a dark scenario. I need a drink after reading that. ;) Do you think they'd be able to take it all and hold it though? That's what I still wonder about. I keep wondering if it wouldn't be very similar to Germany and Japan taking so much in such a short time that they're stratched thin and unable to hold what they take. On the bright side, China is accessable to us by the sea, and we could bring Shanghai to it's knees from the sea and South Korea and Japan. If the Chinese government is effectively destroyed and the communist government distabilized, all that captured territory would be unimportant. I have to go now, but I'll sure check this out later. Great to chat with you. 8)
Logistics, logistics and more logistics. It's the lesson Hitler and Tojo ignored. Hitler failed to understand that once a few hundred miles into the USSR, his own logistics would literally be mired oh and yeah, old man winter. Tojo was overreliant on sea transport and had no other choice. (Compare that with today - note the utter explosion of new overland routes from the Taiga to the Gulf of Thailand ...). In fact, it is the consideration of logistics that makes me worry about "obsolete" large scale overland war biting us on the behind in Eurasia. We are not equipped for it. Logistics pressures the SCO to look at overland strategies and to look at thrusts in the hundreds of miles outward from the SCO's periphery. The same thing that was a disadvantage to Hitler and Tojo, increasing friction away from their core, becomes the SCO's advantage, to a degree. We'd be forced into a D-Day times 10, at a minimum. But we have told ourselves, never fight a land war in Asia. Therein lies the problem.