Comments on: Not so much storming the beaches as trying to keep an airbase open

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 16:52:58 +0000

Kunning Drueger: “Notice how whenever ‘war with China’ is discussed, it’s always located near, next to, or in China.”

An astute observation.

By: Kunning Drueger

Kunning Drueger — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 05:19:49 +0000

Notice how whenever “war with China” is discussed, it’s always located near, next to, or in China. Not that the GAE ever would, but retrenching is the only viable strategy. Let them have the Pacific. Smart money says Nippon, Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia would bleed the Yellows white.

By: Contaminated NEET

Contaminated NEET — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:51:24 +0000

War with China? What a fantasy. They wouldn’t even have to fire a shot. If they stopped sending us products, we’d be begging for mercy inside of a week.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:39:36 +0000

Our war plans with regard to China would seem to fall into the category of “Not particularly well thought out”.

By: Gavin Longmuir

Gavin Longmuir — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 01:10:02 +0000

“The Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations concept envisions small numbers of Marines managing to operate undetected from islands, from which they can fire anti-ship missiles …”

Maybe the marines can remain undetected — until they fire the first anti-ship missile. Then it is Goodnight, Eileen.

But what is the big picture plan? The marines are going to cross an ocean which goes almost half-way round the world, land on the shores of an arguably technologically more-advanced nation with 1,400 Million people and an unarguable local overwhelming superiority in men & materiel — and do what?

And if the Chinese feel threatened by the marines on their beaches, what is to stop them responding by firing missile salvos at the US mainland, with or without nuclear warheads?

By: Roo_ster

Roo_ster — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 23:18:00 +0000

I sure hope every jarhead so deployed has directional satellite commo so Chinese EW doesn’t detect emissions on the “uninhabited” island and turn them into chum with one of China’s many thousands of short & medium range ballistic missiles.