Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How China plans for naval dominance" video.

Right, Pax Romana, Mongolica, and Britannica all rode on a clearly dominant military force who could quickly deploy to terminate trade-blocking disputes
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Even if missiles do reach their intended strike zone, it still has to quickly determine the difference between valid and civilian targets. Anti-ship missiles with their relatively tiny onboard radars are fairly dumb, and accuracy only diminishes as speed increases. I'd wager a good number of Chinese missiles aimed out to sea are going to mistake a container ship for a flattop, subsequently scaring off the civilian traffic the Mainland relies on for food and fuel at affordable prices.
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Right, it'd be interesting to see how PLAN sailors will react and try to control battle damage that some of their ships will inevitably take. "It takes the Navy three years to build a ship... three hundred years to build a new tradition", and post-Ming China isn't exactly known for its naval prowess.
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America could adapt quickly because our own military doctrine is fairly vague and according to our adversaries we violate it constantly. We can stay in a losing fight for decades on end with our experience intact because the internal relationship structure can get bent so wildly, with say colonels randomly trusting in some sergeant's bold idea. A more regimented setup would likely break earlier trying to maintain itself under the chaotic pulls and pressures of real warfare, where uncensored information from below is key to profitable decisions from above.
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US forces left when it was asked to. A big reason the US has so many bases around the world is the concern of what would then happen in America's absence.
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