Comment on The ‘Third Front’: China resurrects Mao’s military capabilities
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 weeks agoIts a notable ramp up in their defense preparedness, but I enjoyed the ongoing life amongst the industrial decay in the pictures from the article the most. What a unique place to live amongst.
Nath@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
In a land of spy satellites, stealth bombers and ICBMs, “hiding” critical infrastructure in your remote mountain fortress is a little archaic in thinking.
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Not at all, the US just lost a war in no small part due to the protection afforded to the Taliban and their supply lines through the Afghan-Pakistan mountains.
[Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall (booktopia link)][www.booktopia.com.au/…/9781783968596.html) I found really eye opening to still just how determined our lives and their conflicts are by the geography surrounding us.
Another present example may be the US’ severe lack of understanding of Iran’s ability to wage an ongoing conflict. Apparently a lot of their infrastructure has been built much more extensively into the mountainous terrain of Iran than initially believed. But I don’t know much about this specifically, but to say the country is basically surrounded by a walled mountain fortress, they’d be crazy not to use it.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I was speaking of conventional warfare - which is what it would take for a “third front” to be necessary. There’s a huge difference between the assorted military operations we’ve seen in my lifetime and total warfare. Even in Vietnam, the major powers held back. The USA hasn’t actually declared war on a country since 1942.
If the USA actually decides to go all-in on a country, that country is in for a bad time. Even if that country is China. That said, **any **nation that invades China is also in for a bad time. The very idea of such a war is horrendous.