mantra wrote:
Outlaw Yogi wrote:I suspect China's only real advantage lay in indoctrination of its people and troops, giving them devotees not unlike WW2 Japanese kamikazes or IS suicide bombers, and plenty of them to sacrifice as cannon fodde
Yes - China has the sacrificial numbers - we don't.
We're an inventive lot. We created the "......? storm", an electric device (no propellant like gun powder) that fires over a million projectiles a minute. We invented the 20mm grenade and launcher which is accurate at 800 metres with shrapnel that penetrates 1/4 inch steel.
In WW2 a bloke in Wollongong invented and built the 1st Owen Gun on a milling machine and lathe in a coal mine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Gun
mantra wrote: America's professional troops are burnt out leaving only the young cowboys who get their training from video games and a few demented old men to lead them. Australia hasn't got an adequate number of troops, nor do we have the sophisticated weaponry needed to fight China. They could force their occupation on Australia just by military volume alone. We've humoured them for years just to avoid such a conflict. Trump could disable our international diplomatic treaties in a matter of months if he thinks it will benefit him personally.
Someone or more likely an org is treating you like a mushroom Mantra, keeping you in the dark and feeding you nothing but bullshit.
Several months ago 3 bus loads of US marines stopped in Gin Gin on their way from Shoalwater Bay to Brisbane.
While queued up at a servo I spoke with some of them and they didn't seem like cowboys. They seemed like reasonably well adjusted city boys and Latinos. The exception being a fat girl who gave me a grumpy look.
I noticed they had mismatching camouflage, thinking some were army as I recognised the computer print as Marines.
Turned out they were all Marines, which is undergoing a uniform change. I asked "What's the idea behind the computer print? .. Is it to fool digital targeting gadgets?"
A Latino bearing a typical American accent and wearing the computer print explained the uniform change and replied "Somebody thought this was the best camouflage, but really it doesn't hide shit unless you're in a rock quarry".
I asked "Are there war games on?" and one replied "Yeah, we're doing a bit of training with the Australian Army"
Yes they do use computer games, but they also do old style training with live ammo and train with many allies including our troops.
It is Europeans, like Germans I've spoken with who use simulators (no ammo) only for training.
We humour them for the same reason we humour the Arabs, because we want their money.
We have more sophisticated equipment than the Chinese and more combat experienced troops.
China got beaten by Vietnam, China is all bluff.
If Donald Trump is so close to the Ruskis, why couldn't he get Vladimir Putin to put novichok in Xi Jjinping's lipstick?
