Very peculiar that all the discussion is about beaches and highways in Taiwan.
Surely the battle would be at sea, a duck-shoot, and on the Chinese mainland, the ports and their supporting areas, where a quarter or half a million PLA support troops would be cowering.
I am not sure that the absence of political considerations in military planning documents is strong proof that politics didn't play a major role in the decision for the U.S. to invade Japanese-occupied Formosa (Taiwan) in World War II. The military advice from the Joint Staff goes up while the political considerations behind the decisions don't often come back down.
Amazing post!
Very peculiar that all the discussion is about beaches and highways in Taiwan.
Surely the battle would be at sea, a duck-shoot, and on the Chinese mainland, the ports and their supporting areas, where a quarter or half a million PLA support troops would be cowering.
I am not sure that the absence of political considerations in military planning documents is strong proof that politics didn't play a major role in the decision for the U.S. to invade Japanese-occupied Formosa (Taiwan) in World War II. The military advice from the Joint Staff goes up while the political considerations behind the decisions don't often come back down.