re: So what if China goes after Taiwan and incites war?

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this isn’t your gramps pacific campaign. We have multiple bases in the area and Japan and SK as an ally. Those bases alone are enough to hold China in place. They simply don’t have the Air Force, ships, or resources. 4 Us Carrier fleets are within striking distance. That’s 40 ships

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That’s my point, though.

Bombs and missiles are fine for softening things up. At some point, though, you have to put boots on the ground. The only way you get Taiwan to a point where moving that many men there is feasible is to blow it into so many pieces that it’s not worth invading.

Driving even 100,000 men over a land border is one thing. It would take 10 times that to even equal Taiwan’s forces (much less outnumber for a successful invasion). Somebody tell me how you get 1,000,000 men and materiel across 100 miles of open water and do it in a way where they are attacking en masse.