> the US has all three aspects nailed and refined for decades. The US has plenty of experience, but it's all in fighting opponents who can barely fire back. No

> the US has all three aspects nailed and refined for decades. The US has plenty of experience, but it's all in fighting opponents who can barely fire back. No one has any idea how the US would fare against a real opponent. Even the shock to the public, which is used to relatively low-casualty colonial wars, would be difficult to gauge. > China suffers just the same problems with endemic corruption and a yes-men attitude as Russia does. I don't know if there's much similarity between the China and Russia, given that I only know the culture of one of those countries relatively well. What I will say is that based on my own observations, China is highly competent at pulling off large and complex projects - much more so than the US.