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Old 06-17-2011, 10:41 AM
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Outside of air and naval forces I couldn't see America really contributing much in the way of land forces in a Chinese-Taiwanese war. China would have to get a sustainable toe-hold on Taiwan for America to have to send the army and marines in to boot them out.
Which right now they'd probably have significant difficulty in doing given that there's huge troop demands on the US military already in the middle east.
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