Perhaps your Navy may be better than China's but wars aren't fought solely on Navy and, indeed, even the best Navy could be overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Don't forgot that China could easily use it's air force and Navy in a combined attack that would be effective if it came as a surprise.
Is the Chines air force better than ours? Because I have no idea.
Perhaps your Navy may be better than China's but wars aren't fought solely on Navy and, indeed, even the best Navy could be overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Don't forgot that China could easily use it's air force and Navy in a combined attack that would be effective if it came as a surprise.
Sure, but you are forgetting that early warning systems are phenomenally better than they were 50-60 years ago. No one is crossing the Pacific without the US and Canada seeing them coming.
As technology continues to progress, and the world becomes more and more interconnected, the likelihood of a major world conflict such as was seen in the early parts of the 20th century become more and more unlikely.
Strategically it would be a nightmare, especially to invade a nation which you do not border, or at least occupy the same landmass with. The time it would take to arrive en masse, as well as the speed at which resistance could be mounted, make such a maneuver nearly impossible to effect successfully.
The next major war, if the is one, will either be nuclear or biological as these are the only ways to effectively reach a distant target without giving them time to react sufficiently to mount an adequate defense.
Is the Chines air force better than ours? Because I have no idea.
Mind you giving India nuclear technology was probably a bad idea on our part...we gave them nuclear reactor technology which the reversed engineered to make nuclear warheads
However, wars are hardly fought like this anymore, and the navy isn't as important.
Hogwash. The wars people are fighting at the moment (counter insurgencies) do not require a large naval presence. For intercontinental world wars the navy is the decisive factor.
Most likely America would be caught of guard and regardless I'm sure the Chinese would find away past the bloody American navy and land enough troops.
Satellites make this nigh on impossible. Especially if you are talking about the numbers of ships required to transport a force large enough to take on the US military. Remember that the US spends nearly half of the worlds total military expenditure. It has by far the worlds largest airforce and navy, with the largest, most numerous and best equipped carrier groups.
Is the Chines air force better than ours? Because I have no idea.
Nope. Their hardware is obsolete by comparison, and their pilots don't get too many hours compared to the US. A few squadrons of the f22/35s ought to do the trick quite nicely, not to mention the massive numbers of f18s aboard US
War doesn't determine who is right, it determines who is left...
I lol'd at that quote.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter what size your military is. You just need the balls to launch a nuke, and the war is solved. It hasn't happened (yet) but since the technology still exists, nukes will never be removed from existence.
If there were no nukes, then you'd be thinking Alliances. Countries who were close allies during WWI and WWII still have close connections. Countries with the same form of government would also probably join together, not taking into consideration factors such as threats or resource control.
I'm thinking North America (Canada, U.S., maybe Mexico), most of Europe, and the rest of the Commonwealth (India, AUSTRALIA, the UK, again, Canada) taking on Communist nations and nations that have a reason to align themselves with them. India already has a beef with China.
Then again, this whole idea of predicting WWIII is silly...
No winner, no losers because when WW3 comes thats end of a world. There are already enougj weapons to kill hole mankind twice, so in future there will be more...
