Before you do, I would encourage you to look closely at the terrain and the weather.
The best the CCP can field is a total barrage of the island in the hope to knock out any resistance, before committing millions of meat on a 110 mile journey to cross the straight, either in boats and ships and planes.
And this does not take into account some hidden surprises to thwart any first and secondary wave.
Knowing what your enemy wants to do, what advantage does that give you? Can you plan to put a cog in wheel? How?
I think, an invasion would be a nightmare scenario.
Better would be to drag your opponent down without firing a shot and try to both economically as well as diplomatically to isolate and strangulate your opponent.
Now ask yourself why are so many Us-allies in and around the strait with postal vessels ......
What does a surface ship has in terms of optics that a stealth sub has not?
Can the CCP be strangulated economically? What would happen if the ships bound for China no longer can pass Singapore, or the Sunda Strait?
What advantage is Afghanistan to China when looked at for pipelines ....
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What happened in Myanmar? What is the importance of Rangoon to China? What is the pearl of strings? What is the single most important pipeline?
Where does China's food come from? How is that transported? How does flooding impact China's agri-production system? How can this be mitigated? How far along is China? When will China be self sufficient without the risk of being strangulated?
What is the most important region in China? For what? What are vulnerabilities? 5th column? What is an earth quake? What is HAARP?
Before you do, I would encourage you to look closely at the terrain and the weather.
The best the CCP can field is a total barrage of the island in the hope to knock out any resistance, before committing millions of meat on a 110 mile journey to cross the straight, either in boats and ships and planes.
And this does not take into account some hidden surprises to thwart any first and secondary wave.
Knowing what your enemy wants to do, what advantage does that give you? Can you plan to put a cog in wheel? How?
I think, an invasion would be a nightmare scenario.
Better would be to drag your opponent down without firing a shot and try to both economically as well as diplomatically to isolate and strangulate your opponent.
Now ask yourself why are so many Us-allies in and around the strait with postal vessels ......
What does a surface ship has in terms of optics that a stealth sub has not?
Can the CCP be strangulated economically? What would happen if the ships bound for China no longer can pass Singapore, or the Sunda Strait?
What advantage is Afghanistan to China when looked at for pipelines ....