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I’ve always found it strange that military planning and training is considered newsworthy and informational. I’d be a whole lot more upset and surprised if USA

I’ve always found it strange that military planning and training is considered newsworthy and informational. I’d be a whole lot more upset and surprised if USA and China were not preparing for a war over Taiwan. It is one of the top 3 most likely sparks for war between them. Which is not to say that it is “likely”.

twblalock 4y ago
Seriously. We should even be training for war with Canada -- just in case. Getting ready for a war does not provoke war. Both sides are doing it, we know each other are doing it, we do war games all the time all over the world and it's fine. Freaking the public out about how the game is played is the real danger. That happened with the balloon incident too -- oh gee China spies on us? Yeah, and we spy on them too, and we've got way better stuff than balloons, and they know it.
- SapporoChris 4y ago
  "War of 1812, when troops from Canada — then a British colony — marched to Washington, D.C., finished James and Dolly Madison’s unfinished dinner and burned down the White House. " https://www.politico.eu/article/us-war-with-canada-cross-border-squabble-history/ https://www.politico.eu/article/us-war-with-canada-cross-bor...
  - cafard 4y ago
    Wow, all the way from Montreal? The troops were landed on the Patuxent River, and marched a considerably shorter distance to Washington. I would also mention that the British called the burning retaliation for the burning of York (now Toronto). But supposedly the War Department had plans in its files for an invasion of Canada as late as the 1930s.
    - SapporoChris 4y ago
      That's a great clarification. Yes, the didn't march the entire distance. The war was very much a naval exercise.
ianburrell 4y ago
How they are preparing is important. For example, China has built a modern navy in the last decade. Invasion is actually possible. Enough that people have been making predictions on it happening in next five years based on when China will be ready. The US has been focused on Iraq and Afghanistan and sort of neglected Navy and Air Force. The article is partly about the Marines completely changing strategy to fight China. Finally, Taiwan preparing for war is important. They haven't been preparing seriously until recently. They have forces for power projection while they need weapons for defense. Ukraine has shown that defense against superior opponent is possible.
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bvoq 4y ago
It is strange that China is preparing for war, because Taiwan gave up on mainland China and does no longer want to go to war with mainland China. There is a clear aggressor here.

twblalock 4y ago

Seriously. We should even be training for war with Canada -- just in case. Getting ready for a war does not provoke war. Both sides are doing it, we know each other are doing it, we do war games all the time all over the world and it's fine. Freaking the public out about how the game is played is the real danger. That happened with the balloon incident too -- oh gee China spies on us? Yeah, and we spy on them too, and we've got way better stuff than balloons, and they know it.

SapporoChris 4y ago
"War of 1812, when troops from Canada — then a British colony — marched to Washington, D.C., finished James and Dolly Madison’s unfinished dinner and burned down the White House. " https://www.politico.eu/article/us-war-with-canada-cross-border-squabble-history/ https://www.politico.eu/article/us-war-with-canada-cross-bor...
- cafard 4y ago
  Wow, all the way from Montreal? The troops were landed on the Patuxent River, and marched a considerably shorter distance to Washington. I would also mention that the British called the burning retaliation for the burning of York (now Toronto). But supposedly the War Department had plans in its files for an invasion of Canada as late as the 1930s.
  - SapporoChris 4y ago
    That's a great clarification. Yes, the didn't march the entire distance. The war was very much a naval exercise.

ianburrell 4y ago

How they are preparing is important. For example, China has built a modern navy in the last decade. Invasion is actually possible. Enough that people have been making predictions on it happening in next five years based on when China will be ready. The US has been focused on Iraq and Afghanistan and sort of neglected Navy and Air Force. The article is partly about the Marines completely changing strategy to fight China. Finally, Taiwan preparing for war is important. They haven't been preparing seriously until recently. They have forces for power projection while they need weapons for defense. Ukraine has shown that defense against superior opponent is possible.

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bvoq 4y ago

It is strange that China is preparing for war, because Taiwan gave up on mainland China and does no longer want to go to war with mainland China. There is a clear aggressor here.