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The Chinese certainly think like this. The North Koreans are certainly on a constant war footing. The world is an extremely hostile place.
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Works both ways.
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And who would ever even attack the US? Massive military spending and they are isolated from all the potential enemies behind two huge oceans. Average american should worry about civil war or maybe nukes. Nothing else will ever reach them.
They may not attack the US directly like the Japanese did, but China may want to take over its neighbours to expand. Just like Russia could.
Obviously that theory didn't work for Japan then, but there's nothing to say nobody else couldn't make the same mistake again. The mentality of the American public may have changed considerably since WWII, maybe Americans are already demoralized and no longer certain of their own righteousness. Maybe the would-be attacker has some reason to believe they can influence the mentality of the American public using control of mass media popular with Americans. Or maybe they're just so certain of themselves and their advantages they think America will back down when push comes to shove because if the positions were reversed, they would back down and they project that onto America.
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The Chinese certainly think like this. The North Koreans are certainly on a constant war footing. The world is an extremely hostile place.
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Their entire military deployment around there is based on fighting the US intervening in their military expansion, eg, against the Philippines.
Canada as well. We have the longest coastline in the world but buy all or most of our ferries from other countries. It's silly.
Always makes me think of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
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The Chinese certainly think like this. The North Koreans are certainly on a constant war footing. The world is an extremely hostile place.
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Odd. Then who in China feels the need to outcompete US military technology? Why is China developing missiles like DF-27 that are difficult to counter and take out aircraft carriers? Who is coming up with these ideas and for what purposes?
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This will never succeed because the economies of scale are nonexistent without dominance in the commercial shipbuilding market. War planners should have pushed to repeal the Jones Act decades ago, but now Chinese shipbuilding capacity is over 230 times greater than ours because of their success in civilian shipbuilding. The proposed measures in this aricle are too little too late. The only logical course of action at…
Submarines and aircraft remain the safest, and best way to deliver offensive firepower. The aircraft carrier does have a role, but it is far behind the contact line.
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China reunifies Taiwan: 100% US responds militarily: not likely but possible
The only way the US will not respond militarily is if Taiwan chooses unification. By all accounts, Taiwan will not choose that. The US military has not been strategically shifting to the Indo-Pacific for more than 10 years now for no reason.