Pretty good analysis here, just one piece I strongly disagree with: that part about China’s armed forces capabilities surpassing that of the US. In sheer troop

Pretty good analysis here, just one piece I strongly disagree with: that part about China’s armed forces capabilities surpassing that of the US. In sheer troop numbers, yes that’s inevitable, but total effective capacity to wage global war? Various technologies - especially the ones that don’t officially exist, whatever they are (some Army buddies have told me of a few things that frankly I don’t believe because they’re too sci-fi; if true are cataclysmically terrifying) - will likely negate most of that advantage. Coupled with the allies the US brings to the table - by FAR our biggest advantage - their best possible outcome is to be “close enough nobody wants to find out”. So surpass? Not happening. Scary dangerous anyway? Oh yeah that’s a guarantee.