>Hi evan,
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>>>>>How on earth could even win a war again china ??
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>>>>They are pretty low tech. No ability to project their power via the water, land or air.
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>>>China, currently is getting more high tech by the minute. Their economy is booming. But even more important. If the US can't win the war in iraq, how can they win the war in china.
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>>>We have to realise that there are no convential wars to fight. I'm sure the the nato can win the battle technically, but as shown in iraq it is hard to break them and protect themselve against terroristic attacks.
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>>Hi Walter. I agree with you (sorta :-)). The US/UK quickly defeated the Iraq military on the battlefield and with (much) more difficultly could do the same with China. As with Iraq, I believe that China could not be successfully occupied by the US.
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>>Though I would have stacked the odds against the US (and west) at successfully occupying Germany and Japan. Both were done stunningly well.
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>Japan was never occupied... They were forced to surrender.

These are not mutually exclusive things. And yes Japan was occupied from 1945 to 1952.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied_Japan