[Chgogal]

"Officials acknowledge that Mr. Ishihara's views reflect the widespread skepticism of U.S. military capabilities in such countries as Australia, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. They said the U.S.-led war in Iraq has pointed to the American weakness in low-tech warfare."

This is an odd analysis. If the US were ever to get into a war with China, my guess is that we wouldn't be invading, it would be defensive. And if it were defensive it would be an all out complete battle to the death. There would be no ground troops involved. There would be no Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, DC, New York City, Chicago, etc.

I'm curious why Mr. Ishihara thinks the 82nd, 101st, 173rd and our Special Forces are ineffective as compared to the Marines? To be honest, I don't have much confidence in Mr. Ishihara's conclusions.

[Enterprise]

In the last couple of hundred years, and other than Tibet, China has engaged and defeated whom?