China’s advanced anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) defenses—comprising missile, tracking, and counter-space systems—create formidable challenges for U.S. forces, preventing effective naval and air deployment in contested areas.
  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    1 day ago

    Failure to do this will mean that the Americans have effectively ceded the South China Sea, parts of the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and even the Yellow Sea to the People’s Republic of China.

    Once that happens, the Chinese then move with great speed to push their power beyond that First Island Chain all the way to the Third Island Chain (which includes Hawaii), and it’s a whole new ballgame.

    It’s interesting how they never properly analyse how a war with China would play out outside of Chinese waters. It’s almost as if China (or any other country, really) would never bother waging war against the USA outside its own territory.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      13 hours ago

      Its also impractical and entirely opposite to the decades long Chinese naval strategy. China doesn’t have an effective blue water navy anywhere near the strength of the US’, and the PLAN would get sent to the ocean floor the second they attempted to break out towards the second island chain.

      Almost because their naval strategy is focused around a green water navy centered on maintaining superiority of China’s coastline and everything within the first island chain. Leaving US naval assets unable to maintain supply lines to Taiwan and the Philippines, with any vessels they send getting swarmed my smaller craft and AShM’s.

      • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I’ve read that China really is trying to develop a blue water navy, and is seriously challenging the U.S. more than was expected. I’m not saying that makes it equivalent to the U.S. though.

        Then again, that argument could at least partially be fearmongering from the Amerikkkan imperialist rather than actual policy goals and actions.

        Playing Devil’s Advocate, while China would and should obviously make it’s priority the first island chain, wouldn’t it be “better” to have a dedicated force or plan to also attack from and reinforce from the second island chain if the opportunity presents itself?

        And I assume that the chance of the U.S. taking Taiwan are less than 1 percent?

  • Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
    29·
    2 days ago

    How dare the devious Chinese use missiles to defend their coasts! That’s unfair to the US military’s expensive toys! /s

    The author’s proposed solutions are to deploy hypersonic missiles (which China has more of while the US still doesn’t have any ready), drones (which China leads the world in), and long-range ballistic missiles (which China has more of, and also look too much like nukes).

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      25·
      2 days ago

      That’s kind of the crux of it, Chinese industrial power is order of magnitude larger than the US. On top of that, China would be fighting on their land while the US would be forced to ship weapons half way across the world. Even with support from their puppets in Japan, Korea, and the Philippines it’s clearly a losing game.