Posted on 11/23/2010 2:48:50 PM PST by Barry Secrest
Hope he's not too heavily self medicated when that time comes.
“Better now than later I would suspect. China might have a massive millitary, but they are only beginning to develop the capacity to significanty project that power. A few million soldiers sitting in China doesn’t get alot accomplished on the battle field.”
You need to remember that the Chinese troops in 1950 had lots of combat experience from fighting Chiang Kai-Shek and the Japanese. The present-day PLA has no such experience, unlike our military which has been engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last decade.
I provided you with the sources. Having worked 36 years for the USG as both a naval officer and a foreign service officer, I can usually discern truth from fiction. You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.
Modern warfare is depends on three things: 1. logistics; 2. logistics; and, 3. logistics. North Korea has food for maybe a month of fighting, if that.
Once the North Koreans get sufficiehntly hungry, they’ll die or surrender.
SK is also flying the F-15 now.
Now wait a minute. That’s not a fair judgement, dude. Back to the 1940s and 1950s, before the PRC was officially founded and after as well, most CCP leaders themselves were front-line commanders&worriers in domestic and international warfares, not to mention Mao Zedong’s favorite son Mao Anying, who died during war in N.Korea in 1950. That would count for something. And, if you were merely talking about the current leaders in office, however, I wouldn’t trouble myself making such defending statements above.
Not that I'm supporting Zero, but let's remember that this is an "ally" that's been protesting our troops' presence their for decades, and maintains a wall of exclusion against many US exports.
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