[CaptainCrunch]

If China is going to invade us its economically.

Stalin once said that capatalists will sell communists the ropes that they will be hung by.

The American's place a huge emphasis on their military and as much as people cry for budget cuts, their cuts are usually cosmetic in nature and their savings are usually based around retiring older classes of weapons.

The American's while losing their economic balance will always pay for the upkeep of their defense. While they might not be able to fight two major conflicts plus several peace keeping actions like they were designed to do in the later half of the 20th century. They still managed to fight two land wars while maintaining a strong global military presence.

The focus for the American's has now gone to high speed war based on having better field intelligence then your side, while putting an emphasis on kill multipliers. While the average tank kill multiplier used to be 3 to 1, its now closer to 10-1 due to advances in their tank technology.

While the Chinese and Russians could be consisdered to be the other major players in terms of defense research, the American's have a fairly big technology edge in terms of their fighting equipment.

Usually the capabilities that we see with American equipment is not its true military capability because American's like to handicap themselves in excercises

On the chinese side they have a vast number of men in uniform, but while they have a decent airforce, they don't have the same capability as the American's have in terms of airforce and its not even close in terms of naval aviation even though the Chinese are looking at building a full sized carrier to add to their fleet. The Chinese don't have the troop carrying capability to carry out an invasion of Taiwan let alone anywhere else.

Where its nice to have a lot of men in uniform carry guns, the American strategy is around peeling back that capability before you even see them, examples of that are force projection with carriers and extremely long ranged missiles on air craft and other vehicles.

While we talk about American capabilities, I look back at the start of the first gulf war where Saddam spent lavish amounts of money on anti aircraft defenses creating one of the most advanced air defenses in the world, and the Americans destroyed that in a matter of days.

If I'm a military planner the last thing I want to plan against is fighting the American's even with a weakened army. They're just too well practiced, and too technology savvy to be easily beaten.