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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
At least troops in barracks back home are almost packed up and ready to go. Those units might be in transit within a couple of days - provided adequate transport across the Pacific is on hand and doesn't need to be brought in from halfway around the world.
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True, but a problem is that most of the heavy gear is already deployed overseas, and not where we'd need them. It's a lot quicker to deploy the boots than to deploy the chariots. We do have a fair amount of heavy stuff in Korea, but it would be a bad idea to encourage those nutjobs in the North by pulling it and sending it to Taiwan.
OTOH, I'm of the opinion that in any invasion of Taiwan, China would use a diversion by their DPRK puppets to draw US attention (including carriers) away from where they intended to strike.