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Originally Posted by Karle94
Could China take on Vietnam? They tried before withou much success. If they tried to take the Phillipines they`d have trouble from some enemies with a navy that could level China to the ground. They have a large military but they might not know how to use it properly. Take the Korean war for example. The Chinese attack and pushes the UN forces back all the way out of N.Korea. Then they loose the initative and gets pushed back until there`s a stillstand around the current border. I think a modern war will be much the same. They`re overwhelming force will only serve them at the start. Then their shear numbers will become a liability. What if the US carpet bombs the areas where their forces are at? How much will remain as you can`t simply hide millions upon millions of soldiers in one day.
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Reminds me of what Colonel Bernd Von Kielst once said about the conflict between Germany and Russia:
“The German Army in fighting Russia is like an elephant attacking a host of ants. The elephant will kill thousands, perhaps even millions, of ants, but in the end their numbers will overcome him, and he will be eaten to the bone.”