Well trained volunteers cannot overcome 100 to 1, or higher, force differences on the attack.

Taiwan would definitely win all 1 to 1 battles and likely most 3 to 1 battles, but 100 or even 200 to 1 odds are not something anybody but literal demigods can overcome. You would need battalions where ever last man was an Audie Murphy to win.

Event he famous 300 Thermopylae didn't. And there is a few facts there to remember too. 300 was more like 2200, to 3000 because for every full Spartan "noble" he brought with him 5-10 fully trained and battle ready squires and vassals. That the "million man" Persian army was like 300,000 top end based on recent research, and might have been as small as 100,000. And last, they fought DEFENSE, using terrain to their advantage. Of course the histories don't mention the squires and vassals and inflated the size of the Persian army because that was the way of ancient time history, they used poetic license.

The point is, even the most heroic fights of the most determined men, just slow down how quickly they die in 100 to 1 odds.

Twain in turn, faces a modern war, on the OFFENSE. Even today defense is easier than attack, and the attacker always looses more men relatively speaking, and China has more men, but also FAR more heavy equipment like jets and tanks. And this last bit will make all the difference. Even of the Chinese are garbage, which they are, Taiwan alone cannot kill enough of them to win before they are destroyed. They need a bigger army and I can't imagine India, Russia, and for gods no the US Army is going to invade China.

Invasions like the 1st Iraq war won't be so easily repeated too. China might not have the best equipment, but they won't be pitting 1950's era optical gun sights against modern FLIR and nightvision with computer assissted aiming and laser guided weapons against ww2 style manually aimed systems and radars with literal fucking vaccum tubes in their computers. China's might be shitty, but they have computerized weapons, they have guided weapons, they have night vision scopes, they have modern air radars. They have actually kind of everything because what they didn't steal, Bill Clinton sold to them.

Invading China will be a very tough fight. The Chinese are garbage, and will die in droves and droves, but hey have droves more meat bag to hand a shitty gun to, and their equipment is crap, but it sotta kinda works, and even working like shit is good enough when they have 100x as much.

Taiwain cannot win without additional land forces from other nations.

Well trained volunteers cannot overcome 100 to 1, or higher, force differences on the attack.

Taiwan would definitely win all 1 to 1 battles and likely most 3 to 1 battles, but 100 or even 200 to 1 odds are not something anybody but literal demigods can overcome. You would need battalions where ever last man was an Audie Murphy to win.

Event he famous 300 Thermopylae didn't. And there is a few facts there to remember too. 300 was more like 2200, to 3000 because for every full Spartan "noble" he brought with him 5-10 fully trained and battle ready squires and vassals. That the "million man" Persian army was like 300,000 top end based on recent research, and might have been as small as 100,000. And last, they fought DEFENSE, using terrain to their advantage. Of course the histories don't mention the squires and vassals and inflated the size of the Persian army because that was the way of ancient time history, they used poetic license.

The point is, even the most heroic fights of the most determined men, just slow down how quickly they die in 100 to 1 odds.

Twain in turn, faces a modern war, on the OFFENSE. Even today defense is easier than attack, and the attacker always looses more men relatively speaking, and China has more men, but also FAR more heavy equipment like jets and tanks. And this last bit will make all the difference. Even of the Chinese are garbage, which they are, Taiwan alone cannot kill enough of them to win before they are destroyed. They need a bigger army and I can't imagine India, Russia, and for gods no the US Army is going to invade China.

Invasions like the 1st Iraq war won't be so easily repeated too. China might not have the best equipment, but they won't be pitting 1950's era optical gun sights against modern FLIR and nightvision with computer assissted aiming and laser guided weapons against ww2 style manually aimed systems and radars with literal fucking vaccum tubes in their computers. China's might be shitty, but they have computerized weapons, they have guided weapons, they have night vision scopes, they have modern air radars. They have actually kind of everything because what they didn't steal, Bill Clinton sold to them.

Invading China will be a very tough fight. The Chinese are garbage, and will die in droves and droves, but hey have droves more meat shields, and their equipment is crap, but it sotta kinda works, and even working like shit is good enough when they have 100x as much.

Well trained volunteers cannot overcome 100 to 1, or higher, force differences on the attack.

Taiwan would definitely win all 1 to 1 battles and likely most 3 to 1 battles, but 100 or even 200 to 1 odds are not something anybody but literal demigods can overcome. You would need battalions where ever last man was an Audie Murphy to win.

Event he famous 300 Thermopylae didn't. And there is a few facts there to remember too. 300 was more like 2200, to 3000 because for every full Spartan "noble" he brought with him 5-10 fully trained and battle ready squires and vassals. That the "million man" Persian army was like 300,000 top end based on recent research, and might have been as small as 100,000. And last, they fought DEFENSE, using terrain to their advantage. Of course the histories don't mention the squires and vassals and inflated the size of the Persian army because that was the way of ancient time history, they used poetic license.

Twain in turn, faces a modern war, on the OFFENSE. Even today defense is easier than attack, and China has more men, but also FAR more heavy equipment like jets and tanks. And this last bit will make all the difference. Even of the Chinese are garbage, which they are, Taiwan alone cannot kill enough of them to win before they are destroyed. They need a bigger army and I can't imagine India, Russia, and for gods no the US Army is going to invade China.