RE: Recall years ago how Saddam’s Army was ammmmaaaazzzziiiinnnnggggg....?
China is NOT Iraq. We underestimate them with their millions of soldiers at our peril.
Remember The First Rule - Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
We need a Navy that can end the PLAN fleet, blockade their ports, and survive attacks from new weapons like anti-ship ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, and reach high-value targets within the PRC.
But we shouldn’t set a book on their soil. No matter how good our troops are, they are likely to destroyed through attrition.
You NEVER fight a land war in Asia, never-never-never. You cannot win without WMD’s. You keep a fight with China an air/sea campaign with limited ground incursions and you pull India into your orbit, they are the only country with the numbers to off set the PLA. Create a loose or a ratified defense treaty of area nations around China. Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Australia, the Philippines etc... You try and drive a wedge between the Chicoms and the Russians as well. And you slowly pull out of trading with these communists and bring our industrial base back.
We also need to reconsider our NATO commitment. Other than Poland and Britain is the rest of Europe worth the effort at this point? NATO hasn’t had a mission since 1991 and do we need all those bases in Europe? Turkey being a prime example of a country that clearly doesn’t have our interests at heart and yet we story nuclear weapons on base there.
The Bush’s, Clinton’s and Obama sent the military out for any little thing and the military industrial complex has loved the last 30 yrs because they get to research and sell their goodies and certain generals and admirals seem to love to fight even when a fight might not be needed and they can’t seem to tell us why we are fighting in Afghanistan/Iraq for 20 yrs, worse still they can’t figure out a strategy to win and get out. They roll up tactical victories, rotate their units and grind them down, rebuild it and repeat, all the while testing new weapons for the military industrial complex and then buying them and the result, a slow bleeding of national treasure.
A massive strategic reset needs to be considered by the US and Trump is the one to do this but the US military will resist. Under Reagan the US military was rebuilt and money poured in and yet Reagan would use the military sparingly and then decisively except for the Beirut mess.