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Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by ramblenode on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:39AM (#40463151)
> the USA is VERY competent at deploying to and fighting wars.

I don't think you can extrapolate fighting in Kosovo, Afghanistan, or Iraq to fighting China. If a war were to break out, both sides would be learning a lot of lessons very quickly.

Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by sanxiyn on Friday May 24, 2024 @03:32AM (#40463827)
US fought a war with China in Korea and they were evenly matched. Korean War is the best historical reference we have.
Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by vlabakje90 on Friday May 24, 2024 @05:25AM (#40464432)
Back when China consisted primarily of illiterate peasants (only about 20% literacy in 1949) without a significant industrial base (it took China until 2000 to overtake Germany in terms of total GDP).
Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by audunw on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:20PM (#40470996)
Logistics is under appreciated. And the logistics lessons from fighting real wars are mostly applicable in other wars even if they’re of a different nature.

I don’t think China has a chance until they’ve at least had a practice run with a real conflict somewhere.

Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by ramblenode on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:23PM (#40471665)
Certainly the US has more logistics experience in actual wars, but it's unclear whether it would matter that much in a US-China war.

A US-China war would most likely be fought in the South China Sea. Most of China's supply train would be moving through China, whereas most of the US's supply train would be moving half way around the world through open ocean. It's not clear why the lack of Chinese experience fighting overseas wars or the US's experience moving materiel through uncontested ocean against non-peer adversaries would apply here.

Remember, the last time the US fought a war without uncontested sea routes and naval superiority was WWII.