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Re:China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific by stcredzero on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:22PM (#19803173)
What usually happens nowadays, is that technology greatly increases the amount of force which can be cashed out for. The start of the Nuclear age was literally applying a "new" (heretofore not yet applied to war) physics.

Applying space forces actively to war could well be applying a new part of the universe to war. (Airplanes and submarines were also this.)

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Re:China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific by shshhdhs on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:46PM (#19803355)
Ok. How does that change the paradigm? It’s still a use of force ...
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Re:China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific by albntomat0 on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:27PM (#19803657)
In potentially the same way that nuclear weapons did. No one can "win" a nuclear exchange, unlike those who thought many of the previous non-nuclear large conflicts would be over quickly (both World Wars and the US Civil War come to mind). Nuclear weapons are still use of force, but provide deterrence in a way conventional forces can not.
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