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Originally Posted by james t kirk
The United States can not even cope with a 2'nd rate 2'nd world country like Iraq.
You lost in Vietnam, you are losing in Iraq.
What in God's green earth makes you think that you can take on the Chinese?
The Chinese have a population of what, 1.3 billion people. That's about a billion more than you. They could put more peope in uniform than you have people in the USA.
You'd get your ass handed to you in a basket.
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Being able to put 100 million people in a uniform color doesn't conquer. Remember that great big ocean and that the US Navy has total superiority of the oceans. How would they get here? Plus infantry doesn't win wars anymore. Air/Sea Power does. A large army is just a lot of mouths to feed and a couple well placed cruise missile strikes will eliminate power/water supplies pretty quickly. This isn't the Roman Empire.
Also, the US did not "lose" Vietnam. All of the military objectives of holding the soviet advance were in place years after the US withdrew. Plus the US forces inflicted horrendous casualties against the North Vietnamese (nearly 10 to 1). It was years later when North Vietnam broke the truce and took South Vietnam and that was mostly the failure of the ARVN. It's pretty unfair to hold the US accountable for a military loss while we were not actually in the country at the time.
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Last edited by Overlord1191; 05-31-2006 at 03:05 PM..
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