Posted on 02/10/2016 8:25:44 PM PST by Zhang Fei
It will be a small-scale rerun of the island hopping of the Pacific campaign of World War 2. This campaign will start with the air base on Mischief Reef, 250 km west of Palawan. This puts it in range of ATACMS missiles with a range of 300 km. The United States has possibly some 2,000 of these in stock. The amphibious attack on Mischief Reef will be associated with the suppression of the airfields on Subi Reef and Fiery Cross Reef. From Mischief Reef, it is then on to the airfield on Subi Reef and then all the other island bases can be rolled up. The Chinese Navy and air force will exhaust themselves in trying to protect these bases, which is a very good thing. Those Spratly bases are China's point, and moment, of weakness.
Some Chinese academics have crowed that China has already won the coming war because President Obama doesn't have the stomach for a major war, as demonstrated by his announcing red lines and then not enforcing them. But just as his penchant for drone attacks on jihadists is a surprising character quirk in an otherwise avowed dove, he did spend some formative years in Indonesia where anti-Chinese sentiment is strong.
As to why we have to fight China, good advice comes from people who have been fighting the Chinese for over one thousand years. As quoted in the Pentagon Papers, Ho Chi Minh said,"the white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never leave. As for me, I prefer to smell French shit for five years, rather than Chinese shit for the rest of my life." Take that advice to heart - a smaller war now is better than a bigger one later.
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“Six hundred million screaming Chinamen.”
“Last I heard, there were a billion screaming Chinamen.”
“There *were*.”
The loss of a US aircraft carrier would escalate it beyond control.
Perhaps we would not be talking of this if Truman had let MacArthur do his job.
I’m afraid we will see a lot of dead women and faggot “soldiers”. We better get real or die.
Nice “Red Dawn” reference!
Red Dawn?
It would be over very fast. Then twenty minutes later we would want some Koreans.
Not with Obama in charge, he would just roll over and surrender. imo.
I'm definitely getting on in years. First, it was the average movie actor being decades younger. Now it's people who've never heard of Red Dawn.
From the story.
Obola will always support an communist regime over a non-communist country. Now, if China were attacking a Muslim country, THAT would be another story.
This is going from memory, so I may be wrong in the details,
but the new Chinese destroyers deploy the YJ-18 vertical launch anti-ship supersonic missiles that can take out carriers. This is in addition to the supersonic wave-skipping Yakhont and Sunburn missiles already in use. Attacking China from the sea is one hazardous mama.
Fantastic article..!
Packed with excellent info..!
Bravo..!
It appears to cover a huge chunk of Soviet Central Asia, aka the stans, as well as all of mainland Southeast Asia. Considering that Chinese emperors used to claim to rule "All Under Heaven", it will be interesting to see how far future Chinese leaders choose to take the recent incremental expansion of Chinese territorial claims.
Agreed. I sometimes wonder is Obama has some form of multiple personality disorder. The things he claims to believe in are all over the place.
It’s scary.
But will they want to try to take Muslim lands? or leave them at the borders?
So, the Chinese “take” Taiwan as a right, but do not assign Japan is their own territory?
Leave Siberia alone?
Split India and Pakistan at their religious borders?
Yes, it's hard to believe, considering there are two versions of it.
We are not having a war with China.
It would not serve us or China.
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