PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

Iron Man said:

Maybe not 1v10, but certainly 1vmore-than-1. It's better than not being prepared at all. Also, I'm preparing a property in a not-too-far rural location for escape if needed with similar preparations, and a well. Been looking at California well permits and digging costs; it's pretty pricey...

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Marginally better and hugely wasteful. Why don't you want to relocate? Probably due to some combination of comfort and familiarity. But if society collapses, then even in the best case where nobody bothers you in the slightest, you still are not living anything close to a comfortable or familiar life. Because you will spend all your time gathering food, chopping wood, etc. But that will not be the case everywhere in the world; governments will remain somewhat functional if they are outside nuclear blast zones or whatever your assumed catastrophe is. What you are doing now makes sense for a temporary crisis—an earthquake or hurricane or so on—where you can maintain reasonable comfort despite a short disruption to government services. Not a permanent collapse.

If you genuinely do fear such a collapse, then relocate. If you don't, then why worry?

Wrought said:

Marginally better and hugely wasteful. Why don't you want to relocate? Probably due to some combination of comfort and familiarity. But if society collapses, then even in the best case where nobody bothers you in the slightest, you still are not living anything close to a comfortable or familiar life. Because you will spend all your time gathering food, chopping wood, etc. But that will not be the case everywhere in the world; governments will remain somewhat functional if they are outside nuclear blast zones or whatever your assumed catastrophe is.

If you genuinely do fear societal collapse, then relocate. If you don't, then why worry?

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Who said anything about "societal collapse"? I'm not talking about The Road kind of nonsense, but certainly "societal unrest" would be a realistic expectation during a war. I have the funds, it's not even remotely wasteful to be prepared in the way that I am. You don't have to prepare for total collapse to prepare for lesser scenarios. That's not too much different from saying "well I can't prepare for a 10km asteroid strike on the planet so I might as well not have a lock on my door".

Iron Man said:

Who said anything about "societal collapse"? I'm not talking about The Road kind of nonsense, but certainly "societal unrest" would be a realistic expectation during a war. I have the funds, it's not even remotely wasteful to be prepared in the way that I am. You don't have to prepare for total collapse to prepare for lesser scenarios. That's not too much different from saying "well I can't prepare for a 10km asteroid strike on the planet so I might as well not have a lock on my door".

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That's why I said "if" in my first comment, because your first post talked about hoarding guns and supplies like those doomsday prepper memes.

If you genuinely believe in some kind of societal collapse happening, that will not help you.

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As I said in my most recent comment:

What you are doing now makes sense for a temporary crisis—an earthquake or hurricane or so on—where you can maintain reasonable comfort despite a short disruption to government services. Not a permanent collapse.

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In any case, all of this is very off-topic so I suggest wrapping it up now.