@FILTH Tourist
>Same goes for China though. If they land in the south and fire rockets at Taipei, the Taiwanese can just fire rockets back.
I was simply using that to demonstrate how small Taiwan is, and that's not relevant to the point I was making. Taiwan can't put an artillery shell through Xi's bedroom window. China can do this to literally every single governmental official in Taiwan.
>Also the front line for a Taiwanese solder is just a short drive away
lol there's a little more too it than that. I remember being on GRF. It took hours just to get dudes actually back at the company and assembled, and obviously that wasn't while being actively shelled.
>My point exactly. Taiwanese armies are spread out but can quickly move and reinforce each other no batter where they land
It doesn't work like that. A little platoon sized element trying to intercept a battalion sized element in conventional warfare is just going to get waxed in minutes. Particularly in this context because the best way for the attacker to minimize casualties is by going balls to the wall.
>China can't sneak in a force large enough to fight the local garrisons without alerting the island snd getting people to mobilize
I think by "sneak" you're thinking Navy seal shit. If a Chinese landing force only gives Taiwan a three hour window, they're not going to be able to actually assemble a force large enough to stop a landing. Even if China goes fully overt, there's plenty of beaches on Taiwan that could facilitate that. A huge chunk of the beaches are surrounded by miles of farming fields. Those are basically massive ODAs, which are almost completely un-defendable, which in turn makes the beaches there un-defendable.
>The island layout is one big hot gates as they are fighting with the sea on one side and the mountains on the other. Not to mention the logistical bottlenecked of just getting Chinese troops and gear to the island.
Once China gets control of land, they can take as much time as they want attacking the mountains. It's also not that big of a logistical bottle neck. They capture or build one harbor and they can bring thousands of tons worth of equipment over at a time. Building one would honestly probably be easier and the tech to rapidly do so has been around since WW2.
>Another reason why being spread out is a good thing. If they land they can have someone on top of them immediately and quickly reinforced no matter where or how many.
lol that's called being pocketed, and that's not a good thing.
>Will China have enough tracked vehicles? Most logistics is motorized.
Pretty sure China has LMTVs that can go off road.
>Iwo Jima was a shitty garrison on a rock and they lasted over a month
Honestly can't tell if this is bait or not.
>Taiwan has millions of people with God knows how many of them would be given guns and looking at possible US and JP support too.
You're not going to just hand westernized civilians guns and get them to fight effectively, and under international law, China can sink, capture, or divert any ship they want that tries to bring non-UN sanctioned aid into the contested waters during war time. If you're talking about WW3 starting, then sure, but I'd say the US would likely not pick Taiwan as the hill to die on in that context.
>If the Taiwanese are half as crazy as the japanese when it comes to defending their home, the human cost on the Chinese side wouldn't have been worth it.
They elected a woman leader.
