China’s Military Is Catching Up to the U.S.

Re:China’s Military Is Catching Up to the U.S. by mardoik on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:11PM (#33284031)

China's strong points:

-China's military has hypersonic missiles that evade most defenses

-Chinese attack drones can paralyze communications networks

-China's naval ships outnumber America's, including 3 aircraft carriers

-China has 2 million serving members vs. 1.4 million US soldiers

-Cyberwar capabilities can disrupt US infrastructure

Considerations:

-China lacks combat experience

-A top-down command structure could make them less flexible to improvise on the field

-40% of training involves studying the Communist Party rather than training

-Untested modern warfare efforts of joint military branch execution

-General lack of readiness based on red vs. blue team exercises

-Shortage of high-quality talent based on standardized admission tests

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Re:China’s Military Is Catching Up to the U.S. by Flatcircle on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:25AM (#33284491)

Americas navy dwarfs chinas from what I’ve heard. I believe the majority of chinas ships are smaller to medium range and lack any ability to sail any meaningful distance which is a major tactical Achilles

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