#13. Wouldn’t work. The two Red Chinese carriers in the dry docks are not real threats in and of themselves. Only the one at sea if it has nuclear weapons.
We could take it out in a second, but would have to deal with their mosquito swarm fleets of small military crafty with lots of missiles, some of which would get thru to hit our carriers/escorts.
Our best weapon is an EMP (Pulse) bomb over their C&C centers, esp. their nuclear missile sites. By crippling or destroying their communications and signals equipment, they would have a hard time getting off a counter-launch, unless they have secret underground/mountain sites we don’t know about.
That’s the same problem we have with the Russians and Iranians. It’s not what you see that is the major threat. It’s what “you don’t see” that is. Remember Cuba, 1962?
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