Global thermal nuclear war. If China dares to fire a ballistic missile at one of our carriers which is sovereign American soil just like an embassy or military base they will have sealed their fate. This is nothing short of an act of Global strategic warfare and 600 million chicoms in the cities would be vaporized as our Trident D5 rain down on them, followed by the MM3 and mopped up with Bones,Buffs and Beaks at least with W or a real CIC the Marxist usurper would prob just go on more vacation.
That is PRECISELY what would occur and Theater Commander have the go-ahead in Contingency to act in that manner...and Obama would not have a say in the matter.
We would put 1500 warheads on target in 30mins or less.
We would have the ability to follow-up with another 3000 within 2 hours.
“What would happen if they sunk one of our carriers? In one move, China would alter the balance of global power.
Global thermal nuclear war.”
Er, that would be “thermonuclear war”. However, I don’t think even GWB would have gone nuclear over a conventional weapon sinking an aircraft carrier (or even the whole group). Certainly he wouldn’t have attacked civilian targets. I believe our conventional forces could fairly handily defeat the Chinese military if engaged.
0, on the other hand, would immediately sue for peace I’d guess.
We would NOT nuke China even if they took out one of our carriers. Not under Obama anyway. That is DREAMING. We probably would do SOMETHING...but it would be much more modest.