[jpp113]

They won’t make the same mistake as the Japs, they’ll take out our carriers first, then the rest of the fleet. They learned from Japan’s mistakes 80 years ago

Not sure I’d want to be in the Pacific Fleet right now.

[mmichaels1970]

they’ll take out our carriers first, then the rest of the fleet.

The Japanese didn't have to worry about ICBMs.

[MinorityRepublican]

They take out our carriers, we nuke China. So this article is BS. Their only play is to go after Taiwan. But I don’t think China can do it. Taiwan is able to defend itself with planes, missiles and drones. It is literally impossible to do an amphibious landing on Taiwan.

[TexasGator]

“They won’t make the same mistake as the Japs, they’ll take out our carriers first, “

Nope. Fentanyl ...

[cgbg]

Command and control is what matters these days.

Military communications satellites would have to be the first targets.

[crz]

We can assume all we want.

Question is...how many have they managed to get into this country the last few years? Have there been Cubans coming cross our southern border? Communists from South and Central America where China has been working? Do we know who the hell those that have come across are?

The Reds dont have to invade Taiwan. They can blockade it. They can turn those loose those they infiltrated into this country.

[Svartalfiar]

They won’t make the same mistake as the Japs, they’ll take out our carriers first, then the rest of the fleet. They learned from Japan’s mistakes 80 years ago

With what? Do you really think they have any aircraft with sufficient stealth, range, or payload to actually fly all the way to a carrier and successfully attack (much less sink) it? How is that plane going to know where to go to do this?

You think their fancy "carrier-killer" missiles will do it? Those need a huge amount of support to locate, track, and hit a moving target, not to mention any US anti-missile defensive measures. I doubt they have enough of these missiles to take out more than a few ships, if they get lucky with those. And that doesn't include US retaliation as soon as the first strike is launched, I doubt they'd have much more opportunity to launch many more.

And this doesn't even get into other assets - I highly doubt China has anything to counter or even find US submarines anywhere past their continental shelf, not to mention AF craft with global range.
82nd Airborne is an entire division setup to put soldiers anywhere in the world in less than a day. Think their capability is at least 3000 combat soldiers (plus logistics/support) on the ground within three days. Might be more, I don't really remember. China can't come close to matching that, I doubt they could get much more than a spare general or two around the world (and that's borrowing civilian flights!).