RE: China treating Uighur Muslims like Tibetans?
July 14, 2014 at 3:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2014 at 3:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
No, we can't. The reason why we don't force an engagement we are good at is such engagements in most situations would not produce the results we want. Annilating Baghdad would hardly dissuade jihadists, nor would they reduce jihadists' scope and freedom of action. Most people dumb enough to get hard ons from watching A-10 strafing the grounds with uranium slugs can not imagine how war could possibly not be the thing that can be molded to best show off the efficacy of their pet toys. They have even harder time in conceiving how tool have to fit the war to be of any value.
But fortunately, the American military that is so miscast as a tool of winning wars against nationalists and joihadists on their home soil is actually better at defeating Chinese ability to project conventional, indistrialized technological military power outside Chinese territory.
They key isn't superiority. The key is whether we can thwart their objectives more economically than they can thwart ours. In Iraq and Afghanistan we can't. In fact the nature of our self-styled superiority itself is very seed for our inability to do so.
Use a cruise missile to take out each tent, and we will go bankrupt long before the Taliban.
But fortunately, the American military that is so miscast as a tool of winning wars against nationalists and joihadists on their home soil is actually better at defeating Chinese ability to project conventional, indistrialized technological military power outside Chinese territory.
(July 14, 2014 at 2:54 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That whole concept of "military superiority" needs some study. It didn't help much in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We are "superior" when it comes to fighting the types of wars that don't happen any more.
It leads to mistakes like this
They key isn't superiority. The key is whether we can thwart their objectives more economically than they can thwart ours. In Iraq and Afghanistan we can't. In fact the nature of our self-styled superiority itself is very seed for our inability to do so.
Use a cruise missile to take out each tent, and we will go bankrupt long before the Taliban.
