Don’t worry they still got China, and black budget funded cartels and domestic terrorists. If it’s really necesary, Sahel and Haiti too.
And when China gets its teeth bashed in trying to invade the Kinmen islands again? Then what?
Killing China has steep logistical challenges. I’d be happy if all the mafia states went under, but they’re too big to take down easily.
US military doctrine is (and has been since the 50s) that we should be capable of independently being at war with our 2 largest rivals. That’s currently Russia and China, but the way India is advancing their military, they’ll take over for Russia soon.
India is not US adversary. It also has no homegrown military industry.
They’re a BRICKS nation that launched their first home built aircraft carrier and they’ve started building another. They’ve also been demonstrating all summer how much cheaper their ICBMs are than ours.
