Do u think the US would beat China in a war ?

War is a zero sum strategy. Nobody wins.

[quote]China is perhaps the toughest country and army in the world.[/quote]

Its really not.

China is an economic power comparable to the USA because of its huge population but it is not a huge (or yuuuuuuuuge) military power. America almost as much on military as the rest of the world combined. You guys probably have ten times China's military strength but is it really necessary?

War with China would be a crazy move though because your economy is heavily interlinked with theirs. Even a trade war would be mutually damaging. It would mess up the world economy too so please don't do it.

Both sides would loose

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The Chinese are rumoured to have an aircraft carrier missile that's not defeatable .. it's a sub orbital missile, coming in vertically and very fast... No defence... There goes the air power

When it comes to war between countries with nuclear weapons there aren't any winners....hell there isn't even a war, just one big BOOM.

Not conventional, maybe nuclear. But then both would lose

Since China's economy is largely dependent upon our own, I think that the farthest a "war" would ever get is posturing.

It's not something that will be any good to either party. One should not assume American Forces will win and even if they did it would be at enormous cost in troops and equipment

War is not conventional anymore, it's far easier to destroy a country through trade and economy.

zonuss lets hope this is only a hypothetical question and never comes top fruition

The location of any battle is the first thing to consider.

Supply line efficiency and geographical challenges make lots of things undoable be less doable by an opponent.

Also secure central deployment and communication means.

Intel, morale, adjoining lands sympathetic to an opponent.

We learned during the 60s in Nam. There are some other things that make the standard formulas imbalanced.

The press is not always to be trusted.

In a conventional war, China would eventually be defeated, though it would be messy.