by MarvyGuy » Thu Jul 30, 2015 2:00 am
I have somewhat of a macabre fascination with these goings on in the Pacific, and seek to try and understand the “ whys “. I have no idea what would happen if/when the shooting starts but I can imagine with anti ship technology today that this is changing the picture for ASEAN and USPACFLT. Static defenses are very 19th century but I am sure they do cause pause for thought.
I imagine that any crisis in China, financially, could be offset by attacking an outside entity to try and bring everyone together in a common goal. How effective this would be is hard for me to say. I feel that John is correct and a shooting war is going to start, eventually. He has been accurate so far and I have no reason to believe that, all standard reasons given aside, that the first wave of attacks will put a lot of analysis into the trash bin. There is so much we don’t know, such as the real capabilities of their newer weapons systems, the extent that they have penetrated US military systems, including communications, etc etc.
Also if you look at Germany, who had a superior army, good generals (in the beginning) and loads of advanced technologies (ME262, V1, V2, etc) a number of other factors (lack of fuel, Ni and Cr), and bad decisions meant that it was all worthless to the sheer numbers brought against them in the end.
I have somewhat of a macabre fascination with these goings on in the Pacific, and seek to try and understand the “ whys “. I have no idea what would happen if/when the shooting starts but I can imagine with anti ship technology today that this is changing the picture for ASEAN and USPACFLT. Static defenses are very 19th century but I am sure they do cause pause for thought.
I imagine that any crisis in China, financially, could be offset by attacking an outside entity to try and bring everyone together in a common goal. How effective this would be is hard for me to say. I feel that John is correct and a shooting war is going to start, eventually. He has been accurate so far and I have no reason to believe that, all standard reasons given aside, that the first wave of attacks will put a lot of analysis into the trash bin. There is so much we don’t know, such as the real capabilities of their newer weapons systems, the extent that they have penetrated US military systems, including communications, etc etc.
Also if you look at Germany, who had a superior army, good generals (in the beginning) and loads of advanced technologies (ME262, V1, V2, etc) a number of other factors (lack of fuel, Ni and Cr), and bad decisions meant that it was all worthless to the sheer numbers brought against them in the end.