What war with China would look like

[Mik]

Secdef was in Pearl Harbor speaking on how new major conflicts would look very different than the largely uncontested adventures of the past two decades.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/09/01/what-war-with-china-could-look-like/

[George K]

(Haven't read the link yet, other than the first couple of paragraphs)

If there's a lesson to be learned from the disruption of the Colonial pipeline this week, it's that our "infrastructure" is very, very vulnerable to hostile actors. The Chinese, Russians and others are very capable at this type of thing.

I have little doubt that we are as well, but I think the interference with supply of critical commodities will be the face of the next major conflict, rather than bombers drones doing damage to cities.

And then, there's EMP...

[Jolly]

Sealift capability.

We don't have it.

[89th]

@george-k said in What war with China would look like:

If there's a lesson to be learned from the disruption of the Colonial pipeline this week, it's that our "infrastructure" is very, very vulnerable to hostile actors. The Chinese, Russians and others are very capable at this type of thing.

Yeah our infrastructure...bridges, electricity grid, oil pipeline, even the internet data centers in LD’s backyard that traffic 80% of the worlds internet...we have so many single point of failures in terms of infrastructure vulnerabilities.

[Jolly]

Biggest single-point failure:

[Axtremus]

@george-k said in What war with China would look like:

If there's a lesson to be learned from the disruption of the Colonial pipeline this week, it's that our "infrastructure" is very, very vulnerable to hostile actors. The Chinese, Russians and others are very capable at this type of thing.

The odds are good that the Russia and China have many weak spots in their infrastructure too, we just don’t read about it in the news.

[George K]

@axtremus said in What war with China would look like:

The odds are good that the Russia and China have many weak spots in their infrastructure too

I said that, didn't I?

[Copper]

China and Russia aren't very green, that will hurt them

They aren't very woke either

When the time comes they will get cancelled by google

[Jolly]

When China says "Jump!" , Google asks "How high?" .

[Axtremus]

Not just Google, but also Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Apple is probably worse than others because, while the likes of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft derive revenues from China, Apple is also highly reliant on China for the manufacturing of its hardware products.

Despite China blocking access to Google from within China, businesses in China still buy advertisements from Google. Lots of entertainment content produced by businesses in China is available on Google's YouTube.