Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "What if China went to war with India? Who'd win?" video.

  1. +Pieter van der zwaan No country wants to face China *alone*. While China would have the edge vs either India or Indonesia in a 1 v 1 fight, the two of them combined would have the edge vs China together... Also, the more countries gets involved the more other countries again might choose to get involved... And I suspect that on the whole that would favour India more then China...
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  2. +Johny Ricco China is not a superpower, at least not yet, and the US is slowly losing its status as a superpower even though it still is one. China does not have the capability of fighting an effective war far from their homeland. The US does (the reason they're still a superpower) but that capability is diminishing for a number of reasons. If the US and China where to fight a war then yes, strategic bombing would indeed play a role. In a war between India and China however, there's no way in hell that strategic bombing would play any role at all in any war lasting less then 6-7 years... The Himalayas just completely negates any material advantage on either side in any shorter wars... Now, if we where to imagine a war actually being faught for 10+ years then yes, strategic bombing might indeed play a role as it could potentially allow China to break out of the Himalayas and start invading the Indian subcontinent... But wearing down the Indian forces to a point where breaking through the Himalayas would be non-suicidal would take at least that long... And starting bombing strategic targets like factories in India would just be a waste of resources for any war expected to be shorter then that as the impact simply won't be noticable on the battlefield *at all*.
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  3. +Johny Ricco Neither side are likely to want to keep a war going long enough for strategic bombing of anything not very close to the front to have any effect at all... Sure China could theoretically launch missiles at a city or some such, but what would they gain? No, the only use of strategic bombing would be locally in or near the Himalayas, distrupting supply lines etc.
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