450k us troops across the entire Pacific. That is less than Russia has operating in ukraine right now. If the US wants to go to war with China they’re going to need to restart the draft to get the 1m plus soldiers needed
Generals in the US back in 2002 and 2003 were advising we’d need at least 4 million troops to occupy Iraq. We had 4 million troops worldwide including support personnel when we invaded. Lo and behold, the thing they were warning about happened. We wiped out Iraq’s military in just a few weeks, but then had no way of dealing with the insurgency or helping civilians get their lives back to normal. Entire cities without water or power for months, making them prime real estate for insurgents to occupy.
Make no mistake, the US will do the same stupid shit we did 20 years ago. The same mistakes made during Desert Storm and Vietnam were never learned from going into 9/11 and the 2003 invasion. Pure adventurism on behalf of the US government.
The only way it will work is if they have mastered some sort of remote powered warriors so everyone can stay in a safe place and pilot death from miles away. But let’s be real, China would be the one to figure that out first
450k us troops across the entire Pacific. That is less than Russia has operating in ukraine right now. If the US wants to go to war with China they’re going to need to restart the draft to get the 1m plus soldiers needed
It’d be a very funny conversation if they tried to recall me long after my contract expired - “I will frag my officers and defect to China”.
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Generals in the US back in 2002 and 2003 were advising we’d need at least 4 million troops to occupy Iraq. We had 4 million troops worldwide including support personnel when we invaded. Lo and behold, the thing they were warning about happened. We wiped out Iraq’s military in just a few weeks, but then had no way of dealing with the insurgency or helping civilians get their lives back to normal. Entire cities without water or power for months, making them prime real estate for insurgents to occupy.
Make no mistake, the US will do the same stupid shit we did 20 years ago. The same mistakes made during Desert Storm and Vietnam were never learned from going into 9/11 and the 2003 invasion. Pure adventurism on behalf of the US government.
Based on what I understand about the Iraq war, the failure to rebuild the country was a feature, not a bug.
I can’t imagine that’ll go down well with the public.
The only way it will work is if they have mastered some sort of remote powered warriors so everyone can stay in a safe place and pilot death from miles away. But let’s be real, China would be the one to figure that out first
at that point your opponent probably should start blowing up communications satellites