PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency

zlixOS said:

Anybody attempting to understand the seemingly obvious and seemingly easily fixable grift culture of the US MIC needs to read

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TLDR the point of the US military isn't to defend the US or even attack its adversaries, but rather to simply be the US military and to project the image of a credible US military.

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Yup, most countries that cares more about the idea of winning than actually winning.

There's a reason why China collapse narrative is so popular. its easier to lie about how badly the other countries are doing instead of fixing your own.

zlixOS said:

Anybody attempting to understand the seemingly obvious and seemingly easily fixable grift culture of the US MIC needs to read

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TLDR the point of the US military isn't to defend the US or even attack its adversaries, but rather to simply be the US military and to project the image of a credible US military.

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Thanks for the read. I think that it'd be more to the point that the US military can't stop and face realities. If any admiral or general were to come out and say that fighting a war in the Western Pacific is impossible and unwise, the whole system falls apart. And so if the system in place makes it career suicide to say the truth, who is ever going to stick their head out?

doggydogdo said:

Yup, most countries that cares more about the idea of winning than actually winning.

There's a reason why China collapse narrative is so popular. its easier to lie about how badly the other countries are doing instead of fixing your own.

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Your first point is correct, but it doesn't have much to do with the second. That part is all about "experts" making a living out of telling people what they want to hear. Technically speaking, China isn't that special in this, except that this narrative is really falling apart right now.