Do you want to dissect this article and get in a 50 page argument again? Lol
I tried to look back on this forum but I couldn’t find if this was posted or not but I thought i was a very interesting article from 2018.
Posted by former Deputy Commander of the Nanjing Military Region (2005-2012) aka Eastern Treater Command.
The article in question.
Let’s discount the three day thing and look over the details of his “6 battles in one.” There is a lot more details but I will condense the initial parts and what seems interesting to me
1) Firefighting: Preparation Stage of 3 waves of artillery/missile attacks + 3 waves of aviation strikes should destroy 1/3 of Taiwans important targets (computer simulation) and suppress important/general target for 48 hours. Afterwards, drones used to monitor and eliminate in the area. A Combination of landed fire brigades + air + naval + to provide uninterrupted fire support for 72 hours.
2) Targeted Warfare: Modern landing operations do not require frontlines or “layer by layer” strikes and advances, forming fronts, and successfully occupy defensive enemy areas. Instead divided into “destroy, suppress, capture, monitor, hold, etc” targets. The scale of the land force is greatly reduced as the army implements targeted warfare and it will not fight urban or street to street fighting. All equipment, troops and materials can be transported within 72 hours.
2.1) Concentration: The distance between Commend Posts, Depots, Airports, Naval Ports, Major Roadways, etc is not far.
2.2) Exposure: All airports are close to the sea and cave airports can be hit by planes. For example, the Hengshan underground commend center can be seen with google maps.
3) Third Dimensional Warfare: Normandy style landings is no longer the main focus of modern landings but a combination of styles are to be used together (land, airborne, paratroopers etc) depending on terrain and enemy concentration.
4) Information Warfare: EMPs and Graphite bombs essential. Commend Centers, Commend Systems, Internet, Local Networks, and Power transmission networks are main targets.
5) Special Forces:
5.1) Decapitation Operation: if bomb strikes fail special forces will finish it
5.2) Advance Action: Secure important objectives (buildings, roadways etc) to assist the main force and to provide reconnaissance/evaluation for firepower support and damage effect.
6) Psychological Warfare: The usual stuff.
This does kinda sound like what Russia was doing in Ukraine (Targeted Warfare) except for the lack of consistent air power.
