Fighting a land war with China through Afghanistan would be a logistical nightmare. Since all the interesting stuff is like on the other side of China, it would be easier to use naval superiority and do a naval invasion. Of course currently USA only has the ability to do the superiority and not the invasion bit so whatever.

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If you want to invade by land you would probably be better doing just like everyone has done and follow the ancient routes from mongolia and manchuria.

Vietnam is an ally for the future there more politically secure and historically not too fond of China.

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If America decided to get its fleet close to the mainland they'd find the fact that you can build bigger more missiles on land than you can on a ship. And the horror of having enough ships to hold the men to storm the beaches... well, best choose a different route.

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Well, no one would do an invasion without first smashing up enemy defenses as well as blinding him. But yes, USA does not have the ships for a large invasion nor the trucks for any long supply lines. So the options are pretty limited and the best would just be a naval blockade, clearing the skies and seas and then perhaps some bombing campaign.

A war between two such large powers is going to be a horrible mess anyway. If anyone thinks it will be easy and quick, well then I have a Schlieffen plan to sell, only used once and it's cheap too!

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as if average Americans was Eric Cartman....

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"I hear there's a lot of black people in Africa"

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Possibly a third as well...

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Do explain..

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