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Originally Posted by Raellus
I'm worried that world powers are going to draw the conclusion from this attack and, to a lesser extent, Ukraine's recent Operation Spiderweb, that a surprise first strike against a strategic rival or near-peer offers a very high degree of probable operational and strategic success. China's got to be taking notes and using what they've gleaned to plan (and maybe even prepare) for an assault on Taiwan.-
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As per the header, but I'm not sure that the concept of success being more likely if you initiate a surprise attack with extensive prior intelligence and international information coordination against critical infrastructure that sits at the heart of your operational and strategic goals is all that new, or far from the thoughts of war planning coordinators.
We don't have to look very far back to see what it looks like when you possess the strike capability to do exactly this even WITHOUT the element of surprise to the then-fourth-largest military on the planet concentrated on defensive lines in an area 2/3 the size of Texas.