I think it's important to note that in any Taiwan scenario, china's goal would be to win convincingly. One of the big criticism from china side of Russian efforts is that Russia was not running a strategy that optimized its own success. Only when it resorted to using constant heavy artillery did its fortunes start to turn around.
It's quite clear that once we do get into urban warfare, there will be a lot of casualties on both sides and a lot of civilian deaths. I don't think we need to go into details of why things won't go well. As such, china will try to degrade roc army as much as possible before it attempts a landing. If taiwanese government does not surrender after several weeks of blockade and bombardment, then an invasion will happen. it seems to me that pla is fully ready to be the bad guy in order to complete the task as quick as possible.
The other lesson that china learnt is to make sure they have enough quantity before it gets into a conflict. That means enough nuclear deterrence to not fear nuclear blackmail. Enough missiles to disable air and naval bases all the way to Guam. Enough ships and aircraft to create a network that usn carrier groups cannot defeat. enough special missions aircraft so that they will always have an advantage in isr and ew. Enough precision strikes and drones to fully degrade taiwanese army. China would never want to be in a position where it doesn't have enough quantity to be in an adventageous position. Never want to run low on missiles, aircraft or ships.
It's quite clear that once we do get into urban warfare, there will be a lot of casualties on both sides and a lot of civilian deaths. I don't think we need to go into details of why things won't go well. As such, china will try to degrade roc army as much as possible before it attempts a landing. If taiwanese government does not surrender after several weeks of blockade and bombardment, then an invasion will happen. it seems to me that pla is fully ready to be the bad guy in order to complete the task as quick as possible.
The other lesson that china learnt is to make sure they have enough quantity before it gets into a conflict. That means enough nuclear deterrence to not fear nuclear blackmail. Enough missiles to disable air and naval bases all the way to Guam. Enough ships and aircraft to create a network that usn carrier groups cannot defeat. enough special missions aircraft so that they will always have an advantage in isr and ew. Enough precision strikes and drones to fully degrade taiwanese army. China would never want to be in a position where it doesn't have enough quantity to be in an adventageous position. Never want to run low on missiles, aircraft or ships.
