View Single Post
  #4  
Old 08-29-2009, 10:54 PM
pmulcahy11b's Avatar
pmulcahy11b pmulcahy11b is offline
The Stat Guy
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 4,345
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by sglancy12 View Post
How are they supposed to manage that with a supply chain that starts somewhere down around Vladivostok? Not counting the too-narrow trans-Siberian railroad before even getting to Vladivostok, the rest of that supply chain would be by sea. There are no rail lines or roads connecting the settlements of the Soviet North-east. The US Fleet out in the Atlantic might be mauled, but the fleet in the pacific would have only been fighting the sov's small Pacific Fleet with the aid of the PRC navy and the Japanese Self Defense forces. The Soviet Pacific fleet would have been squashed and in no position to execute an invasion... even if the Sovs just piled as many men as possible onto merchant ships, the US Navy and Naval Aviation would have slaughtered them in the water before they could make landfall at Anchorage.
A Russian (or anybody's) invasion and occupation of the US by ground forces has always struck me as unrealistic for the same reason -- it's logistically impossible to pin down that much ground. (And the Russians would probably have to pin down Canada at the same time, to prevent its use as a staging base for the re-taking of the US.) For the same reason, a conventional invasion of Russia is impossible, as would be an invasion of China or India. If nothing else, the Iraq War has shown us that even smaller countries can prove to be difficult if not impossible to totally pin down.
__________________
War is the absence of reason. But then, life often demands unreasonable responses. - Lucian Soulban, Warhammer 40000 series, Necromunda Book 6, Fleshworks

Entirely too much T2K stuff here: www.pmulcahy.com
Reply With Quote