PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

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zlixOS said:
Anybody attempting to understand the seemingly obvious and seemingly easily fixable grift culture of the US MIC needs to read
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TLDR the point of the US military isn't to defend the US or even attack its adversaries, but rather to simply be the US military and to project the image of a credible US military.
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Yup, most countries that cares more about the idea of winning than actually winning.

There's a reason why China collapse narrative is so popular. its easier to lie about how badly the other countries are doing instead of fixing your own.
 
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zlixOS said:
Anybody attempting to understand the seemingly obvious and seemingly easily fixable grift culture of the US MIC needs to read
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TLDR the point of the US military isn't to defend the US or even attack its adversaries, but rather to simply be the US military and to project the image of a credible US military.
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Thanks for the read. I think that it'd be more to the point that the US military can't stop and face realities. If any admiral or general were to come out and say that fighting a war in the Western Pacific is impossible and unwise, the whole system falls apart. And so if the system in place makes it career suicide to say the truth, who is ever going to stick their head out?

doggydogdo said:
Yup, most countries that cares more about the idea of winning than actually winning.

There's a reason why China collapse narrative is so popular. its easier to lie about how badly the other countries are doing instead of fixing your own.
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Your first point is correct, but it doesn't have much to do with the second. That part is all about "experts" making a living out of telling people what they want to hear. Technically speaking, China isn't that special in this, except that this narrative is really falling apart right now.
 
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A decent paper on PLA systems confrontation in various geographies, neither amazing nor awful. Not particularly notable, except for the fact that it was written by none other than the same Collin Koh who spends his free time talking a lot of shit on twitter.

Drawing on insights from Chinese writings, this paper argues that Beijing’s military strategists would aim to incapacitate the United States’ command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities through a combination of kinetic and non-kinetic means. Simultaneously, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would seek to neutralize or destroy key American military assets, particularly in Guam, to hinder the deployment of reinforcements or to gain time to isolate the Western Pacific battlefield. This objective would be pursued through the PLA’s extensive arsenal of ballistic and cruise missiles launched from multiple platforms. To counter potential American military reinforcements, the PLA may attempt to interdict westward approaches in the Philippine Sea. However, as this paper further contends, the PLA faces significant strategic and operational challenges in conducting military campaigns beyond the First Island Chain.
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I'm more disappointed than anything. If you can write papers of reasonable quality, why spew out garbage on a daily basis?
 
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