{"id":1806021,"date":"2023-01-15T06:35:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806021"},"modified":"2023-01-15T06:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T11:38:38","slug":"if-china-invades-taiwan-bombers-submarines-and-missiles-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-china-invades-taiwan-bombers-submarines-and-missiles-dominate\/","title":{"rendered":"If China Invades Taiwan: Bombers, Submarines and Missiles Dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-china-invades-taiwan-bombers-submarines-and-missiles-dominate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5713837.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Many hundreds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/what-an-ngad-vs-f-22-raptor-dogfight-might-look-like\/\">Warplanes<\/a> Burn on the asphalt of airbases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2023\/01\/japan-matters-if-china-invades-taiwan\/\">Japan<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/the-air-forces-b-1b-bomber-is-back-in-guam\/\">Guam<\/a>. There were over 100 large warships that were anchored on the seafloor of the Taiwan Strait and Western Pacific. In just a few short weeks of violence, tens of thousands of people lost their lives.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@19fortyfive\/\">Here<\/a>. <em>19FortyFive<\/em> publishes original videos every day.)\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Wargames for Taiwan<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>This was the outcome of a series of wargames undertaken by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), simulating an amphibious landing operation in Taiwan by the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) in 2026. The games\u2019 design and outcomes are detailed in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/events\/report-launch%E2%80%95-first-battle-next-war-wargaming-chinese-invasion-taiwan\"><span>Report<\/span><\/a><span> Retired Marine colonel Mark Cancian, and Eric Heginbotham, researchers<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The analysts attempted to simulate realistically a wide range of factors, including the volume of long-range missile stocks, the density of aircraft over runway space, political restrictions and combat on ground, air, and sea. Situations were iterated 23 times, usually including variant technical and political assumptions \u2013 such as less effective missile defenses than expected, or delays before U.S. intervention \u2013 to assess the impact of those contingencies.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>According to the authors, they developed the rules based on historical precedents. These include the offload throughput of amphibious landings in D-Day and Okinawa, the hunting successes of World War II submarines, and the past success\/failure rates of anti-ship and ship-based ballistic missile defense systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Contrary to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/the-u-s-militarys-sad-new-reality-it-could-lose-a-war-to-china-or-russia\/\"><span>Classified Pentagon wargames<\/span><\/a><span> CSIS games took place in later timesframes. All but three of them resulted with a decisive or partial Taiwan\/U.S. victory. The outcome was sometimes resolved within two weeks. However, less favorable scenarios took longer. Usually, U.S. warplanes and submarines sank so many of the PLA Navy\u2019s specialized amphibious landing ships that it became impossible for China to supply and reinforce the 30-60 battalions of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/chinas-supersized-marines-could-invade-taiwan\/\"><span>PLA Marines and Soldiers<\/span><\/a><span> It landed in southern Taiwan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>But Taipei\u2019s and Washington\u2019s victory came with staggering losses of warships, aircraft, and personnel at a rate not seen since World War II. Furthermore, several major components of the U.S. military prove either ineffectual or excessively vulnerable\u2014<\/span><i><span>If <\/span><\/i><span>the wargame\u2019s combat models are to be believed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is unlikely that Taiwan will invade the United States by 2026. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/china-taiwan-biden-defend-taiwan-from-chinese-invasion-rcna30132\"><span>In the scenario envisioned, it will occur.<\/span><\/a><span> In the wargame. However, it is important to consider the risks and costs involved in this game. \u2018moving parts\u2019 This terrible conflict is of great interest to all sides<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Japanese bases\u2014prerequisite for a successful defense of Taiwan<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>U.S. airpower ordinarily hinges on relatively short-range jet fighters\u2014F-16s, FA-18Es, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/why-is-the-f-22-raptor-already-headed-to-a-museum\/\">F-22<\/a>s, and F-35s\u2014as well as somewhat longer-legged F-15s. However, despite capacity for in-flight refueling, these fighters can only bring sustained combat power to Taiwan\u2019s defense if based relatively close. The only viable options here are carriers (proven susceptible to attack), Guam (useful but too far away to be ideal), as well as bases in Japan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Cancian believed it was possible (but not certain) that Japan would allow U.S. warplanes to fly combat missions into Taiwan. But those bases would pose such a big threat\u2014and tempting target\u2014that PLA players were highly likely to attack them, to ruinous effect. These strikes would have likely caused Japan to join hostilities by contributing its own submarines, airpower, and airpower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The chain of causality is complicated. <\/span><i><span>Most likely<\/span><\/i><span>s\u2014so there\u2019s ample possibility things could play out differently. CSIS simulations were able to simulate scenarios in which Japan didn&#8217;t join hostilities or refused U.S. access at bases in Japan. There were no prospects for a Taiwan\/U.S. alliance in this scenario. Victory was not possible as China could use more missiles to bomb aircraft in Guam.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Australia was the only other ally expected to assist the U.S. in the war\u2019s early phases, most importantly via bomber basing.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Carnage on the runway<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>Cramming hundreds of advanced U.S. fighters into a few bases within range of Taiwan might be the U.S.\u2019s only option\u2014but creates an inviting target for China\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nti.org\/analysis\/articles\/chinas-growing-missile-arsenal-and-the-risk-of-a-taiwan-missile-crisis\/\"><span>A large inventory of short- and medium-range missiles<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The lack of hardened aircraft shelters (HASs) meant that landed U.S. warplanes could be blasted apart with ballistic missiles, which sprayed many cluster bomblets across a large area. In \u2018base\u2019 game scenarios, the U.S. and Japan aircraft losses averaged 449 jets\u201490 percent on the ground or carrier deck. Blue Team has more pessimistic scenarios. U.S.\/Japanese lost increased to 646 in an average scenario.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Cancian describes an apocalyptic scene.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2026 late-deploying units to Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa will land at a base that has entire squadrons of wrecked U.S. and Japanese aircraft bulldozed to the side of the runway, hundreds of wounded in the base hospital, and temporary cemeteries to handle the many dead. Missile attacks and air combat will have wiped out squadrons that arrived only a few days earlier.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He says that the U.S. could decrease these losses significantly by building hardened shelters for aircraft (estimated at $6,000,000 each), protecting aircraft from cluster weapons. This would force China to deploy more missiles. Japan could also allow U.S. aircraft to disperse into its civilian airports. This would reduce the effectiveness and efficiency of Chinese strikes. But that\u2019s a <\/span><i><span>Big <\/span><\/i><span>if.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Fair enough, the Pentagon began practicing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/05\/agile-combat-employment-how-the-us-air-force-would-fight-russia\/\"><span>Agile Combat Employment (ACE), tactics<\/span><\/a><span> Cancian believes that dispersing combat aircraft is a good idea but not sufficient.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In some of the game\u2019s iterations, the Blue Team <\/span><i><span>Also <\/span><\/i><span>PLA aircraft were also attacked in China by the PLA airbases. The average number of PLA aircraft destroyed grew from 155 (all in flight) to 327.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Surprisingly the game doesn&#8217;t give much importance to air-to air combat. Because combat air patrols hunting enemy fighters consume more fuel and sinking PLAN amphibious vessels was considered a higher priority than combat air patrols, Blue Teams mainly assigned U.S. fighters for these missions. The base game didn\u2019t accord a qualitative air-to-air advantage to the U.S. military due to China\u2019s use of longer range <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/the-f-15ex-could-soon-be-armed-with-ultra-long-range-missiles\/\"><span>PL-15 and PL-21 air to-air missiles<\/span><\/a><span>, and the PLA\u2019s ability to safely deploy airborne early warning planes near their own air defenses.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Bombers everywhere<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>The U.S.\u2019s most effective weapon proved to be its fleet of long-range bombers\u2014old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/the-b-52j-or-b-52k-bomber-is-coming-soon\/\">B-52<\/a>s, supersonic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/12\/b-1-lancer-this-bomber-is-the-ultimate-survivor\/\">B-1 bombers<\/a>?, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/the-us-military-wanted-75-b-2-stealth-bombers-to-fight-russia\/\"><span>B-2 stealth bombers<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Three reasons exist:\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>-the bombers have the range to conduct strikes from bases in Hawaii, Alaska, and Australia\u2014largely beyond the reach of Chinese missiles\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>They can carry many weapons in every strike\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>-each can (or might if upgraded to) launch <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-today.com\/missiles\/agm_158_jassm.htm\"><span>JASSM-ER<\/span><\/a><span>  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/warriormaven.com\/sea\/the-u-s-navy-s-lrasm-missile-could-be-a-real-ship-killer\"><span>LRASM stealth cruise missiles<\/span><\/a><span> Beyond the reach of air defenses.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>These bombers launched a constant stream of sorties to sink large warships blocking Taiwan and amphibious vessels needed to transport PLA troops to the beachheads.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>There\u2019s a catch: by 2026, the report estimates the U.S. will only have 450 ship-killing LRASMs\u2014all expended in the war\u2019s first few days. LRASM is derived however from the JASSM ER, which is projected to have 3,650 weapons by 2022. Cancian believes JASSM could get software updates to make them at most partially effective against ships, as they have an infrared seekinger that can be used against moving targets. This would allow Air Force bombers to carry out standoff-range antiships attacks. <\/span><i><span>weeks<\/span><\/i><span>.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Cancian, however, also managed game iterations <\/span><i><span>Without<\/span><\/i><span> JASSMs that are anti-shipping effective have led to a sharp increase in U.S. loss.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Non-stealth aircraft could safely carry LRASM\/JASSM-ER Missiles, particularly B-52s. The wargamers discovered stealth aircraft to be useful in employing shorter-range, more abundant weapons such as the JSOW or JDAM glide bombs to targets with high chances of evading any air defenses.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s worth noting, China\u2019s fleet of old H-6 bombers is <\/span><i><span>Also<\/span><\/i><span> Effective, an H-6K regiment could send 96 supersonic antiship missiles at U.S. warships in a single strike.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Anti-access\/area-denial\u2014all it was hyped to be?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>In the 2010s, the idea that China\u2019s long-range missile weapons, including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/china-and-russia-have-the-missiles-to-sink-a-navy-aircraft-carrier-but-could-they\/\"><span>Exotic anti-ship ballistic missiles<\/span><\/a><span>This would allow you to create <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/11\/anti-access-bubbles-how-to-stop-china-from-militarily-dominating-asia\/\"><span>anti-access\/area-denial zones<\/span><\/a><span> for surface warships became a buzzword in security discourse\u2014then <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/the-u-s-militarys-sad-new-reality-it-could-lose-a-war-to-china-or-russia\/\"><span>Critics reacted negatively to the announcement<\/span><\/a><span> The term was misunderstood and hyped up.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>However, the CSIS wargames seemed to validate the concept; China could launch so many anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles from aircraft, warships, and shore-based launchers that U.S. surface combatants couldn\u2019t approach Taiwan without being destroyed.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Two U.S. carriers struck groups, one near Taiwan, were deployed in an attempt to deter war. However, they lost the battle (along with 96 fighters onboard) in the first turn. Their air defense missiles had already been exhausted.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Consequently, the dense PLA anti-ship firepower kept powerful U.S. <\/span><i><span>Arleigh Burke<\/span><\/i><span>-class destroyers <\/span><i><span>Ticonderoga-<\/span><\/i><span>Classes<\/span> <span>Cruisers are prohibited from entering weapons range in order to impact the conflict around Taiwan. And even then, 15-25 U.S. were usually lost during hostilities\u2014the higher rate approaching one per day. Cancian claims that the U.S. Navy should deploy rescue tugs, floatplanes to prevent such large losses.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s worth noting A2\/AD skeptics argue the reconnaissance and command-and-control capacity to reliably form a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/china-and-russia-have-the-missiles-to-sink-a-navy-aircraft-carrier-but-could-they\/\"><span>real-time spotter-to-shooter kill chain<\/span><\/a><span> Targeting moving ships in the Pacific is much more difficult than most people realize. That may cast doubt on the efficiency with which both sides\u2019 anti-ship missile arsenals are converted into hits in the game.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>In the Taiwan fight, both Army and Marine ground forces were ineffective<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>Due to China\u2019s missile-based blockade of Taiwan \u2013 reinforced by a picket line of surface warships and submarines \u2013 attempts to deploy U.S. Marine or Army ground forces to Taiwan by air or sea proved futile in the game; those forces were destroyed in transit whenever it was attempted.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Cancian claims that these outcomes raise questions about the idea of investing in. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/the-new-marine-littoral-regiment-explained\/\"><span>Marine Littoral Regiments<\/span><\/a><span> (MLRs), and Army <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ausa.org\/publications\/multi-domain-task-forces-glimpse-army-2035\"><span>Multi-Domain Task Forces<\/span><\/a><span> expected to assist the Navy\u2019s battle for sea control using truck-mounted anti-ship missiles. Even though an MLR was unable to deploy forward in Taiwan, it still sank five ships with its 72 missiles. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/12\/naval-strike-missile-is-it-really-a-threat-to-china-or-russia\/\"><span>Naval Strike Missiles<\/span><\/a><span> (range 115 miles), but then couldn\u2019t resupply. In Cancian\u2019s estimation, the MLR\u2019s output was equivalent to one raid by a bomber squadron.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>By contrast, he argues it\u2019s more useful to increase the number of land-based anti-ship missiles sold to Taiwan, including 400 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/06\/expert-analysis-did-ukraines-new-harpoon-missiles-sink-a-russian-tug\/\"><span>Harpoon missiles<\/span><\/a><span> On order. He also mentioned that the longer-range Maritime Strike Tomahawks could be used to allow an MLR in Okinawa.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Submarines are the killer<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>Besides bombers, the other U.S. system that could effectively hunt littoral waters near Taiwan was the U.S. Navy\u2019s nuclear-powered attack submarines. Each submarine was able to sink an average of eight large PLA vessels per week in the highly target-rich Taiwan Strait.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>As nuclear-powered subs can operate indefinitely underwater, they were unaffected by China\u2019s many anti-ship missiles and constrained primarily by their need to replenish after expending all torpedoes. However, dense anti-submarine assets protecting the PLA amphibious force did manage to inflict 20 percent attrition on deployed U.S. submarines every game turn\u2014losses the U.S. couldn\u2019t make back at present rates of construction\/retirement.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Taiwan\u2019s ground forces are key<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>In the game, PLA missile attacks easily obliterated Taiwan\u2019s navy and air force in a couple of days. Only the Taiwanese squadrons at fortified mountain bases managed to survive, but they were unable to generate sorties due in part to the cratering of their runways. Cancian thus joins the chorus of analysts arguing Taiwan shouldn\u2019t invest in large ships and jet fighters.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>More survivable are Taiwan\u2019s land-based anti-ship and anti-air weapons, and its ground forces, which must contain PLA landing forces at the beachhead, preventing them from securing seaports that enable China to resupply the invasion using its many civilian ships.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>One major assumption of the wargame\u2019s scenario is that Taiwan\u2019s forces will vigorously resist invasion. Sometimes, however, a country\u2019s armed forces or ruling elite collapse and concede quickly at the sudden onset of war. But predicting a country\u2019s willingness to fight to the last can be tough, as Putin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/world\/1011170\/if-putin-wanted-to-deter-nato-he-did-it-wrong\"><span>discovered to Russia\u2019s detriment<\/span><\/a><span> in his invasion Ukraine.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h2><b>Critique of CSIS Approach<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>Wargames are unavoidably imperfect attempts to simulate reality\u2014though some more so than others. So it\u2019s unsurprising that several experts on Asian-Pacific security have criticized aspects of the CSIS wargame\u2019s mechanics, underlying assumptions and findings.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Perhaps the most salient is that China is unlikely to attempt an invasion of Taiwan by 2026 while suffering such a capability mismatch\u2014Beijing\u2019s own military modernization plans to peg the mid-2030s, or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/10\/navy-leader-cant-rule-out-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan-even-earlier-than-2027\/\"><span>Positively 2027<\/span><\/a><span>As when its military will also be available. The PLA Navy will be then ready. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sebastienroblin\/2021\/04\/20\/patrol-by-chinese-carrier-reveals-beijings-modern-surface-fleet\/\"><span>many additional amphibious ships, missile destroyers\/cruisers<\/span><\/a><span>, aircraft carriers, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/chinas-j-20-stealth-fighter-a-nightmare-the-u-s-air-force-or-a-paper-tiger\/\"><span>Stealth aircraft<\/span><\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2021\/07\/sorry-joe-biden-china-is-a-military-superpower-heres-why\/\"><span>Anti-drones and hypersonic Missiles<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Some argue it\u2019s more likely the PLA would initiate a prolonged blockade and\/or bombardment of Taiwan before attempting an amphibious landing\u2014a longer timeframe posing more politically complex choices for the U.S. and Japan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Lastly, there\u2019s a <\/span><i><span>Lots <\/span><\/i><span>of uncertainty about the realism of the game\u2019s combat mechanics because a real-life maritime-centric conflict of such an enormous scale has not been fought since World War II. It is possible to debate whether the unexpected outcomes of the wargame are due to clarifying insights or flaws in combat resolution rules and scenario assumptions.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>These issues aside, CSIS wargames may still offer food for thought about the terrible human, political, and technical consequences of an all out conflict over Taiwan&#8217;s fate. They also draw attention to the strengths and weaknesses of opposing forces.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span>S\u00e9bastien Roblin writes on the technical, historical and political aspects of international security and conflict for publications including\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/profile\/sebastien-roblin\"><span>The National Interest<\/span><\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/navy-spent-30b-16-years-fight-iran-littoral-combat-ship-ncna1031806\"><span>NBC News<\/span><\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sebastienroblin\/#457ee8ba2082\"><span>Forbes.com<\/span><\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/warisboring.com\/author\/sebastien-a-roblin\/\"><span>Boring war is<\/span><\/a><span>  <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/author\/sebastien-roblin\/\"><span>19FortyFive<\/span><\/a><span>He is Defense-in-Depth editor at.\u00a0\u00a0He holds a Master\u2019s degree from Georgetown University and served with the Peace Corps in China.\u00a0\u00a0Follow his articles here\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sebastienroblin\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many hundreds Warplanes Burn on the asphalt of airbases Japan Guam. There were over 100 large warships that were anchored on the seafloor of the Taiwan Strait and Western Pacific. In just a few short weeks of violence, tens of thousands of people lost their lives. 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