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Eh, I don't think they gain anything by rushing the invasion. Even if they could conquer Taiwan in 6 months, which is a big gamble, that doesn't negate America, who is the real opponent, and provides a big dramatic event for the US to rally around and justify big flashy responses. I think this...

A bit of actual theoretical war crafting between China and Tiawan. I've never seen this brought up before, but once your aware of it it seems pretty obvious to me, so its probably not as unique a thought than I think. The essence of the idea is to slow roll the war and engage in steady...

Hm, I'm wondering who all their including: 2020 US birth is 3.6 million, EU is 4 million, for a total of 7.6 million vs China's listed 12 million. 4.4 million more births, on top of the prexisting numerical advantage of 1.4 billion vs 778 million, though at a higher average development. And...

Eh, I'm not sure this is really true: Lots of China is China primarily because of military conquest. Obviously, the recent example would be Mao's communist China was primarily achieved by military conquest. Tibet seems to have initially been a near pure military conquest. Major military...

About what I expected: sub 1,000 tons a missile hit more or less guarantees a mission kill, 50/50 full kill more or less. Probably completeness you want 2 hits, just to be sure? In the destroyer range, it looks like one hit never killed the ship outright, and in one case was able to move under...

You realize the Harpoon is as slow, if not slower missile right? Whether the tiawenese have harpoon missiles or not, basically has zero effect on the earlier point. All that means is the main ships can trade fire with the Chinese war Catamarans that can carry 8 Harpoon class weapons. Which then...

Eh, Tomahawks are not fast missiles. They move at about normal jet aircraft speed, and are thus vulnerable to most of those same weapons. Its not easy to stop all of them, you have issues of "the bomber will get through", but heavily attritionable: I remember watching someone play through one of...

And those methods have counters, and those counters counter, until someone attritions out. Being within helicopter range of the mainland does mean that the whole island is in range of relatively easy resupply and commando operations from the mainland. Obviously, if the war gets hot, there...

Not at all. The fact that military operations have the risk for casualties, is, well, uninteresting as a statement. Is your contention that MANPADs is all the Tiawanese need to defend their island against the chinese?

Sure, and tanks are vunerable to helicopter missiles. This is the logic that paratroopers weren't a think in WW-2 because machine guns can shoot people. Pointing out weapons can hurt people is, well, irrelevent.

Eh, an amphibious invasion is hard, but I also doubt it would be nearly so one sided or bloodless as some seem to be suggesting. The Chinese on their own have a fairly high level of ambitious landing, and the range from mainland to Taiwan is still only about 200-300 km, so helicopters can drop...

Eh, if your using the 128k number for US Korean losses, which seems to be dead and wounded, then it probably makes more sense to compare whole force dead and wounded, in which Case Allied casualties were around 776,000 casualties vs 1.5 million on the China/North Korean side. So, about 2-1...