>>>>Military:
>>>>- by far the strongest and most effective military. It is said that no combination other other militaries can defeat.
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>>>Most effective, perhaps. But China is way ahead of us numerically. If they ever catch up to us in weapons quality, we may have a problem.
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>>I think the numbers game for infantry ended the perhaps the 1960's. High altitude bombers, cruise missles, drones, air craft carriers are what tips the balance now. High tech really.
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>Recent history doesn't seem to confirm this...in fact it becomes rather obvious that one needs a lot of troops to make any difference...

What's your example. If were taking pure military victory or military defense high tech wins. If you're taking about occupation (or nation building) that certainly takes a lot of bodies, or effectively convincing the conquered nation that you are the good guys.

>>If we look at China's space program (a cover for ICBM program) they are the first to have done this with minimal R&D. They bought a bunch of Soyeuz technolgoy from the Russians and the rest probably came via esponiage from the US space program. They simply didn't have the talent to do this themselves.
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>ROFL
>Chances are that you're typing this on a Chinese made laptop....BTW didn't they invent the rocket in the 1st place a few centuries ago ?

Sure Chinese made, but it is an HP, so all of the R&D is done in the US. The US innovates, asia copies and builds. I think Japan would be the only nation that is doing true orginal innovation (vs copying and tweaking).