plawolf
Lieutenant General
That’s falling for the idiotic premise of the wet dream exercise.
The ‘exercise’ were just glorified propaganda tools designed specifically and purposefully to boost American moral and likelihood of intervening.
The basic underlying premise is that China will use nonsensical strategies of Zerg rushing Taiwan with civilian transport ships without adequate pre-invasion work up other than an opening massed missile barrage.
It also assumes that China will do absolutely nothing to proactively safeguard its landing forces and fleets as the U.S. masses its most powerful alpha strike and then just eats that hammer blow before starting to seriously respond.
That’s the equivalent of the PLAN coming up with a silly scenario where it will have packs of 022 missile boats keep within strike range of all USN carrier groups in the second island chain, and that they will spam all the carriers to death with YJ82/83s as soon as war is declared.
China does not need to specifically plan to defend against such an attack because such an attack will be impossible in real life.
China does need to guard against saturation attacks by long range stealthy cruise missiles. That’s why it’s investing so much into AWACS to help detect those cruise missiles effectively, and super long range AAMs so J16s can engage US bombers, AWACS and tankers at extended ranges.
Frankly we have already wasted too much time and effort debunking a nonsense result from an exercise tailor made to produce the desired result in the first place.
