He’s right, stop it.
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Being corrected by other members means that you get to learn and other people reading the thread get to learn as well.
If it means that people reading will take more care in posting random articles and news, that is a good thing.
Objectively, some posts and some news are either not relevant/off topic, of poor quality, or unreliable, especially if not associated with one's own commentary and simply "copy and pasted".
Calling it out straight in a public manner is useful so that everyone reading it is aware. There is no issue with it, so long as it is conveyed in a civil manner.
That's really considerate to have those rifle in the vehicles with brass deflectors.
can't agree more with this statement.
IMHO, those who feel or think they are right could learn something from this famous advice from King Solomon:
A soft answer turneth away wrath, but a grievous word stirreth up anger.
enough said.
A proper encirclement takes an order of magnitude more men and material than a storming action. I don't think you understand urban warfare.
Taiwan Island only has a few sea ports and few airports. Block them off and destroy the runways (bomb daily after) will cut off all supplies to the island.
The amount of supplies a military force needs i.e. fuel and food are small compared to the needs of the general civilian population. They will absolutely just let the civilians starve to death to reserve supplies for the troops.
There's also the Fallujah scenario where the conventional armed forces surrendered years ago but militia or extremist formations seize a town/city and PLA troops are forced to do a large scale mechanized urban assault. The amount of troops you need to surround even small settlements and prevent leakers is an OOM higher than a storming action.
Furthermore, what do about American garrisons in the Philippines and Japan? The PLA isn't starving out the garrisons in Yokosuka or Subic in any appreciable time frame. The idea of just encircling and starving out troops is a very optimistic and appealing idea but the idea that the PLA will not have to engage in urban storming actions in the future is pretty laughable.
EDIT: in general I find the idea of encircling or bombing out Japan or Taiwan to be pointless. The core issue is expanding the Chinese A2/AD net further into the Pacific to blunt US standoff naval and aerial strikes. Taking Taiwan fast to deploy SAM batteries, land based aviation, and naval resupply points is critical to forcing US Global Strike Command to expend munitions blowing up Taipei instead of Dalian.
Blockade the island and let’s see what the ROC leadership is made of. PLA absolutely should take out all fuel depots, electric transformers, undersea cable stations, gas stations, SatCom stations, etc. UAVs should be sent to take out all moving vehicles. Troops can cook their food with wood or keep eating MRE.
If US and Japan send in an intervention force, PLAAF and PLAN can focus on them 100% without having to support and supply PLAGF on the island. Bombing of the island can be left to the UAV and rocket artilleries.