Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "Chinese navy exploding in numbers: More ships AND tonnage than US Navy?" video.

I don't think you're going to see Korea jumping on board.
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Kevin, everything you said about the Chinese navy is true, but much of it applies to the U.S. navy as well. The USN, the most powerful maritime unit in human history, is itself untested. The combat that it has participated in since 1945 has been against adversaries with no ability to challenge the sheer mass of firepower and defense that the USN presents. None of the current leadership in the navy was around when their was any kind of equity in combat capability and sailors had to be motivated to fight in battles that could very well end up with all hands lost. And even if they were, the game has changed so much since then that, except for the raw grit, the experience would be of limited value. As to your numbered points, I don't know how training compares. I know the Chinese were very concerned about the training that their airmen were receiving after a dismal set of wargames about half a decade ago, but I believe that they are attempting to address that; I do not know how successful they have been with that. I think China's technology is very close to on par with the United States and will probably exceed it sometime in the next decade. I think the U.S. has a very slight edge on proven leadership which I explained above, and I think the tactics advantage is undeterminable because effective tactics for fighting a peer competitor in this day and age are completely untested. There are two other considerations, the first of which is location, if the fighting is off the coast of China or Taiwan then China will have a lot more other assets to bare from land locations. Likewise, if it were off the coast of the United States or say, Cuba, the U.S. would have an overwhelming tactical advantage. The second is industrial capacity, which only really plays out in a long conflict. I think China holds a substantial advantage there, though that could be mitigated if the U.S. were able to successfully attack enough of China's factories.
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@exactlybasically8603 Y'know I've thought of that. Wouldn't it be cool just to have a massive war game where you pit two countries' forces against each other in a series of non-lethal battles. I'd definitely be willing to pay to watch the highlights. I don't think it would fly because everyone has too many secrets. But it would be soooooo cool.
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@pgr3290 I could be mistaken, but I don't see Koreans viewing China as a threat, especially as China has been reaching out to them over the last few decades. Koreans have far greater animosity towards Japan than they do China and the only reason South Korea has as close a relationship as it does with the United States is because the U.S. has troops stationed in Korea in the event of an attack by the DPRK. I think China has grown as close to South Korea as it has to North Korea and deep down I think they respect South Korea a lot more. It's possible that the U.S. could try to force South Korea into an anti-China alliance, and that might succeed, but it could also backfire. Many in South Korea understand that the United States may be there (in northeast Asia) now, but China will be there forever.
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@MrFlatage The Bay of Pigs was no naval assault, it was an attempt to land a bunch of Cuban expats in hopes of inducing a coups.
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@MrFlatage We've been discussing the efficacy of the PLAN and the USN. You brought up the Bay of Pigs in this discussion. My point is that the Bay of Pigs fiasco is not an indication of weakness in the U.S. Navy.
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That's the great irony. War is horrible, about as horrible as anything can be, but the machines of war are frickin' awesome, awesome to the point where it's almost worth it.
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@PedanticNo1 I'm thinking rampant piracy.
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@HailAzathoth While it is true that nothing lasts forever, most of human history has been ruled by despots, and by most I mean almost all.
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