If China goes all in for the Western Pacific, we’ve generally
got another war that will look like Japan’s occupation of the
region all over again.
If Russia, Iran, and North Korea also flare up, we will have
to deal with them also in other theaters. Our allies will of
course be expected to chime in.
Korea could possibly deliver nukes. I don’t think Iran
could yet.
Russia’s forces are not known to me in great detail, but
they now have supersonic munitions to attack us and our
interests with.
China alone would be a major headache, but those other
entities would be hard to deal with.
Our policy since the 90s was downgraded to a one theater
battle plan. That was just idiotic > IMO.
During Bush, I’m not convinced that we haven’t let that
slip further.
Bush, Obama, and now the empty suit, didn’t and don’t
support our military in any meaningful way. Yes there
was happy-talk, but we didn’t rise back up to a two
theater battle plan, and keep our Navy at full capacity.
Under Reagan we had over 600 ships. By the time GW was
gone I believe it was under 300.
It would be hard for us to pull this off.
It certainly wouldn’t be a cake walk.
If George W. Bush or Donald Trump was still President, we could deal with China in the Western Pacific. Right now with Slow Joe as our President, if China wants it, they will get it. Right now we do not have will to use our military force. It does not matter how advanced we are. To get an idea of what it would look like, just refer to Carter Administration when they were dealing with Iran with the hostage crisis.