Quote Originally Posted by The Cuyahoga Kid View Post
I've been reading papers on Taiwan and Operation Change of Direction this weekend and, while I might be chasing phantoms, I started to see a lot of connections between the attributes Hezbollah exhibited in '06 and the traits that the ROC would need to embody in order to survive a hypothetical war in the straits.

Does anyone think that the ROC and other regional powers could effectively respond to conventional over-match by the PRC and a changing regional geopolitical calculus by adopting force structures and doctrines typified by Hezbollah and related hybrid actors?
The Red Chinese would perhaps be better served by just blockading the island and starving them into submission. That of course would entail defeating the USN but if they could pull that off nothing could stop them. The ChiComs wouldn't shrink from the ruthlessness needed to do that and if would save a lot of trouble.