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Yup! That's how the Allies won WWII - the British Empire had an amazing civilian naval logistics machine. The US had insane industrial capacity (which got juice
by radicalbyte 4y ago
Yup! That's how the Allies won WWII - the British Empire had an amazing civilian naval logistics machine. The US had insane industrial capacity (which got juiced by the war!). Over the course of the War the US basically took over that logistics capacity and by the end of it replaced the British Empire.
China have a similarly amazing capacity - the likes of aliexpress are more capable than anything I've seen in Europe. For consumers it's only Amazon who come close.
In a total war situation all of that capacity and - importantly - the deep knowledge - are used for the war effort.
- ericmay 4y agoHow would China use these boats during a hypothetical war?
- cameldrv 4y agoTo transport troops, vehicles, and equipment to Taiwan. Read the linked article.
- ericmay 4y agoChina could use these ships as described, but they’d first have to disable Taiwanese defenses and keep the US out of the area, in which case the war is already over. If China were to just send boats like these across the straight without the prior conditions being settled, they’d be sunk and sunk easily since they’re defenseless. Seems like fear mongering to me.
- radicalbyte 4y agoOr to use the infrastructure for a landwar. The "boats" are extremely important part of the logistics chain but there are also rail, road, warehouses etc etc. In a land war the boats would be moving raw resources to feed their industrial machine, just as they are now.