Posted on 04/29/2018 7:11:57 PM PDT by BBell
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
“They don’t have nukes”
Even though Taiwan was detonating nukes in the early nineteen eighties, they don’t have them now. Evidently.
Just like Israel didn’t have nukes in the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties...then a two hundred warhead arsenal just magically appeared when the Oslo Accords were negotiated in nineteen ninety-three. Somehow.
A post good for a laugh, like the original article.
Post of the thread.
An amphibious assault remains as the most complicated and risky military operation.
From post World War I through World War II, to Inchon in Korea, the United States Marine Corp developed and refined the doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures for amphibious assault.
Our Marines remain as the most capable amphibious assault force in the world. But I doubt any Marine today would recommend a deliberate, full-scale, amphibious assault without a significant increase in the size of the Corps and our amphibious lift capability as well as extensive preparation of the battlefield, including air, surface, subsurface, and cyber superiority (preferably supremacy).
You need significantly superior forces attacking the landing zone, and you need to be prepared to accept far higher casualties than the defender.
Never say never, as few thought Inchon would be possible or successful.
But an amphibious invasion is far more likely to end up like the Gallipoli Campaign or the Bay of Pigs invasion than be successful.
My dad served during this crisis. His vessel, the USS John McCain, escorted Taiwanese supply vessels carrying ordnance to those islands.
Using artillery, the Chicoms sank the Taiwanese vessel in front to them. My dad said his vessel was ordered to not stop, and they passed hundreds of screaming, drowning men.
One of the forgotten battles in the communist drive to conquer the world.
What I remember from a 1958 Nat Geo article were women & children emerging from caves for the first time after the ChiCom shelling subsided. They were joyful to be breathing fresh air for the first time in months.
“The Republic of China (Taiwan) denies having any weapons of mass destruction. There is no evidence of Taiwan possessing any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, although it has pursued nuclear weapons in the past.”
If Taiwan has nukes and the spine to use them, more power to them.
Even then they would still be up against a bigger foe, which is relatively insensitive to casualties.
As I said before, if the PRC marshalls a credible threat, then makes an offer, Taiwan might accept it.
“Even then they would still be up against a bigger foe, which is relatively insensitive to casualties.”
They’d be very sensitive to losing the Three Gorges Dam.
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There is a tiny nation where the Middle East abutts Africa which claimed to have no nukes for decades. Even though we knew they did, and in that case we hadn’t (intentionally ) provided them with better designs.
If the mainland does a nuclear tango on the coast, what will India do at that time?
And with that going on, what would China’s neighbors to the north do?
In Sumary:
China hasn’t behaved in such away as to have appreciative neighbors.
China has multiple borders. There is no “one at a time” in war.
If a nation with that many people combined with that record of brutality is invading, it is a given that nuclear arsenals will be deployed. Only people across the sea can think stupid thought such as “these people who dismember each other to sell body parts won’t exterminate me and my family.”
That’s good info. Every time we were on stand by for the next flight, it was always a hard stare-down on passengers LOL. I’m sure we wont just stand idly by while the Chinks get another foothold in the Pacific. We stop them at the Spratleys and they know we’ll kick their ass if they do something stupid, especially with Trump as prezzy.
Ancient WWII japanese rifles aren’t quite up to snuff. That’s what most of the Taiwanese have “trained”with.
Actually my wife trained on an M14 - but that was 30 years ago.
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