They are going to land Marines and they are going to attack the chinese bases. Communist china has a huge coastline with plenty of coastal infastructure. They can't defend it all at the same time. So while the chicoms are are wasting a lot of money on air defense, the US military will hit them on the ground.

thats just not going to happen - China is a continental power - and the US has high respect for any enemy that is competent on their home ground advantage.

any US general that decided there was a viable plan to land on the mainland needs shooting now so that they don't kill any of their soldiers unnecessarily.

 

every rule in logistics and support just gets thrown out the window if you attack china over land.

 

 

That's why it's going to work, because nobody would ever believe it and the chicoms wouldn't really be prepared for it. Besides, the question is about the littorals. We're not looking to take the entire country. It's like kicking off a ground war before the air war. It's like landing at Normandy instead of Calais.

do you actually understand anything about logistics? 

 

china within the the 150km coastal belt (ie, draw a silhouette parallel demarker 150kmn that follows the coast) has in excess of 1500 airfields and airstrips capable of handling fighters and light transports.  On your best day you could not neutralise everyoone of those airfields.  Everyone of those airfields is a logistics hub that can fast track troops, equipment or air defence assets to any part of the coast within minutes if not a max of half an hour.

 

the next 150km belt of land has over 500 airfields.  So they have a highly interconnected logistics support grid that an amphibious force cannot even begin to think about destabilising.

 

do you know why there have been no amphib landings (of scale) since Inchon?

Nobody in their right mind is going to go fight china on home ground.

The US can sink plenty of PLAN littorals right now with anti ship missiles, mines and torpedoes.

Imagine all those bases on high alert. They are consuming MASSIVE amounts of manpower, fuel, electricity, parts, etc... Why? Because 1 MEU might show up someday. Oh my. It's worth it just to keep them THINKING there's going to be a full-scale invasion. Now you see what I mean? What we if we never invade at all and the chicoms have WASTED a whole lot of time, effort, and money that could've been used elsewhere where REAL action was happening. Kinda like how you are wasting yours with me!

Do you seriously believe the stuff you write?  Thats now how they are set up.

You already know you can't beat me or change my mind. 

Good grief, are you a kid? This isn't a competition, I'm not trying to change your mind as I've already worked out that you're another Shooter.  You don't understand the basics of warfare and yet you're pontificating over how it will pan out.

The sorry thing with this is that you're publicly demonstrating a complete failure to understand the fundamental issues involved and yet see this as some kind of pecker competition to prove that you're right.

 

Demonstrate some kind of appreciation of what is actually involved and I might take you seriously.

 

If you think this is remotely connected to "beating" me or anyone else, then you need to grow up a little.

 

 

The US can sink plenty of PLAN littorals right now with anti ship missiles, mines and torpedoes.

Oh come on Nan, I expect better of you in these debates.  Of course they can sink plenty of assets, but the issue in this episodic clash of the titans is what are the objectives?  define the objectives and you get the taskings.  see the taskings and you see the evolution of what each player can bring to bear.  This notion that the chinese are incompetent goes against everything that your blackshoes believe.  they have far more respect about what could happen.  "armchairs" always see it in simplistic numerical terms as though warfare is a binary event.

 

This has seriously turned into a teenagers version of "sink the bismark" without any of the rigorous attention that should be applied to it.

 

I get enough idiotic teenagers on the other forum I mod in thinking that war is a casio event

If USN thinks there are scenarios where they will move ships into Chinese littoral waters, I hope they make extra sure to fully brief the SecNav, SecDef, and the whole National Security Council that there's no way to sustain that sort of presence during war without a major air campaign against mainland Chinese C4ISR and airfield targets as well.  Even just venturing into most littoral areas means they will certainly be tracked by Chinese surface wave OTH radars and when the shooting starts they will be targeted by SRBMs and by land, air, and sea-based anti-ship cruise missiles, at a minimum.