This is spot on.
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This is spot on.
At the beginning of WW2 our sealift resources and our Navy were woefully inadequate. What did we end up doing? We built more ships than the enemy could sink. That's the beauty of America. When we run out of ships, tanks, planes, bullets...we just make more.
Yes and that's why they have their colonisation program to introduce Han to the areas. These will eventually outnumber the local minority and is another reason why I don't think ethnic separatism is going to be too much of an issue for the PRC.
Bazinga! The rulers of China, whatever their persuasion over time, have been concerned about internal disunity & this drives the PRC policy towards not only those you mention but also Hong Kong & Taiwan, which the mainland considers rebel provinces which should be brought back into the fold.
I don’t know...Russia tried that in a number of places and it didn’t work.
Recent events are troubling to say the least. You can love or hate Russia but you can’t ignore them.
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What it did do for them, though, is to give them a later claim to areas that they wanted to annex... like eastern Georgia, Crimea, eastern Ukraine... if your country can afford to be patient, seeding territory you want to possess with people who look like you and speak your language could be a successful long-term strategy.
Of course. I only meant that it didn’t keep these former Soviet republics from breaking off. Russia isn’t afraid to roll tanks over the border to impose their will on their neighbors but I think China likes to be more subtle than that.
Hmmmm, the seeding over time of people to justify the ends of means... An interesting take on something I haven't thought about.
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Devildoc
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Weren't they supposed to be deployable in 18 hours or something like that? I don't know, you tell me.
I am okay being wrong. My wife tells me all the time.
I think the certain forces within the Ranger Regiment and the 82nd are supposed to deploy from home station to contingency zones within 18 hours of notification. That’s wheels up, not wheels down. The Marine Corps can often respond faster then that with a MEU because those forces are fully trained, forward deployed, and self transportable courtesy of the Navy. The DOD forward deploys other highly specialized forces that are extremely responsive but I won’t get into that here.
ThunderHorse
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IIRC, alert Ranger Battalion is wheels up in 18 hours and the 82nd Division Ready Brigade is wheels up in 24 hours. Maybe less for both.
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Reverse that
ETA: not to talk any shit on my buddies at the 82nd but I don’t think that 24 mark has ever been met. We go full retard to make our time hack and have a much smaller element moving. I can’t imagine a Brigade getting their gears turning.... again zero shit talking on my end. Those guys do some great stuff with not a lot of money behind them.
ThunderHorse
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At the beginning I don't think we'd have much logistical support from them. We would be the ones supplying logistical support to them across an ocean before we could mass our forces and conduct operations. As @DasBoot mentions above they would be focused on fighting the fight before they'd attempt to provide logistical support.
Fuel, bullets and facilities. That's about all the support we can expect.
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