RE: US Military Budget Just Increased By Another 100 Billion...Media Silent
August 4, 2018 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2018 at 10:24 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 4, 2018 at 9:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We seem to be losing our minds because they built an island in the South China Sea.
china’s economy is already larger than ours. Although they lag in key technologies, their actual industrial production capacity in key areas is as much greater than ours as ours were greater than those of japan during WWII. In the long run they will be able to more than match us ship for ship, plane for plane, all else being equal.
But all else is not equal. They will enjoy the huge cost advantage of short supply line because most of their assets will be based near China and close to their source of supply. What is more their forces will need no time to transit to and from the field of battle. All their forces can be made ready and brought to bear at their moment of their choosing.
Not only would each piece of our asset require a much more costly logistic tail, a large chunk of our total force will always be in transit to and from their distant area of operation from an America half a world away. Unless we give away the game first by maneuvering to move all of our forces there, and if they see it coming they can attack before our full force get there and destroy us in detail, we will always only be able to count on part of our forces to face all of theirs.
So even if they merely match us ship for ship and plane for plane, they can still do that on a far smaller military budget, and yet still be confident they will enjoy large numerical advantage at the point of actual contact.
