Posted on 12/29/2021 6:49:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Imo, the days of massive manpower for wars such as ww one and two are over.
At this point in time, merely a huge target for smart bombs, etc.
Even these will be outdated courtesy of weaponized drone swarms.
Chinese officers rise through bribery.
US officers rise through diversity and affirmative action, and kissing the right butts.
We are in just as much trouble.
Have you ever been in a Chinese restaurant or business where there is a robbery taking place? The employees run out the back door. This is Chinese “character”. How many Chinese will really fight in a war?
If there were to be a land war in Asia I would be concerned. No point on having a 3 million man army if you can’t transport them, feed them, arm them and send them to places outside of their sphere of influence.
BAD PUN
Quite true. When NATO was facing the Warsaw Pact one of the primary targets was the rail bridges across the Vistula river. Drop those spans and supply becomes extremely difficult after a few days of heavy operations. Then you keep them down.
We also identified fuel pipeline construction units as being worthy of early attention. Take them out and all fuel has to move by fuel tankers. Experience with the Red Ball Express and the Afrika Korps in WW II shows how this method may rapidly approach diminishing returns. You can aggravate the problem by making the fuel tankers a target as well.
Another high value target was the bridging units. Target them and a lot of tanks and other armored vehicles must cross streams and rivers at fords. Massed targets...
So if the Chinese logistics are weak we can make them weaker by selective targeting.
Make sure your staff officers have all had experience trying to make the bad guys battle plan logistics work and have them come up with solutions to the problems that arise. If there are no solutions then you can study the problem more to see how to make it worse.
Yes but true. CCP has never valued the lives of their subjects.
Don’t underestimate a country with a large population and large percentage of men with no matrimonial prospects. China has >110 men for every 100 women at/under reproductive age. Couple that with well over a billion mouths to feed (for which the CCP takes responsibility for, being communistic), limited supplies, and a huge sore point regarding national pride & subjugation. Obvious “solution”: prioritize retaking Taiwan, use the considerable manufacturing abilities to produce means to transport vast numbers of bullet sponges across the 30 mile gap, and subsequently praise the small fraction of the human wave survivors for their glorious sacrifice - and duly enjoy the improved balance of “supply and demand”, having reduced the latter by millions.
If CCP is content to use Ughirs (sp?) for parts, don’t think they won’t improve food supply problems by reducing the population.
The Chinese have at least a couple million expendable young men.
The whole one child policy has left literally millions of men with absolutely no possible female wives/mates.
The young Chinese women now have many potential SUM YUNG GUYS to choose from.
Why kill people when you can purchase them and their governments. It’s an economic war. The question is who is winning that. IDK.
Uranium penguin wrote:
It sounds to me like what Xi really needs is a Spanish Civil War.
I would expect China to get involved in an African or Small Asian conflict soon.”
Western Sahara (with support from Algeria) vs Morocco (with support from Israel)
China cannot project it’s military beyond it’s borders.
They have to many enemies around them.
The "extra" men are 100% illiterate peasant farmers who no Chinese government would trust with a knife, let alone a rifle. Chinese women are not interested in them, regardless of the ratio - they all want the top 10% of upwardly mobile city dwellers, just like in the USA. :)
China has clearly chosen to fight the next great war in cyberspace.
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