The ranges of Chinese ballistic and cruise missiles, air-defense systems, and warships. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Alex Lockie, Business Insider: China's missiles could dust the US military in minutes — here's what would happen if they tried
* China's massive missile forces could savage US air and naval forces in the Pacific, lighting up ports and airfields, and blowing up F-35s, F-22s, and possibly aircraft carriers before they could respond.
* War-gaming experts point to this as a persistent problem with US forces in the Pacific, but it's far from a clear-cut win for China.
* The US has a number of ways it can predict, prevent, or blunt a missile attack, and once the US military and its allies kick into gear, China will face a mighty wrath.
Experts at the cutting edge of simulated warfare have spoken: China would handily defeat the US military in the Pacific with quick bursts of missile fired at air bases.
The exact phrasing was that the US was getting "its ass handed to it" in those simulations, Breaking Defense reported the RAND analyst David Ochmanek as saying earlier in March.
"In every case I know of," Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense, said, "the F-35 rules the sky when it's in the sky, but it gets killed on the ground in large numbers."
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WNU Editor: The blow-back against a Chinese surprise attack may take some time, but it will be massive. Unfortunately, as this blog has pointed out in the past few years, there are many in China who feel confident that they could win such a war .... China Thinks That It Can Defeat The U.S. In A War (February 4, 2014)
