is japanese miliary stronger than chinese?

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Answer 1

I find your word entertaining. "Stronger". Its like the evolutionary idea of "fittest". Which is more fit, the blue-whale, or the single bacteria that can kill it? Its a vague, fuzzy term.

Were the Germans or the Brittish more "fit", ahem more "strong" in WWII? The Nazi equipment was Mercedez-Benz of warfare. They had more of it, and much better quality at the beginning of the war.

On 9/11 were the hijackers or the Americans more "fit", ahem "strong"? Twenty men with box cutters, a grudge, and a willingness to die cost the US about 600 billion dollars, killed 3000 people, directly attacked the pentagon, and had a nonzero chance of starting WWIII, and significantly destroying western civilization, had they successfully attacked the Capitol instead of hitting a Pennsylvanian field. Now, $400 billion dollars, 5 years, and a two front war later, do we have Bin Laden in a cage yet? We have won significant battles, but the war is not over.

I think the text on asymmetric warfare that the chinese released is as big of a letting the cat out of the bag as the US revealing stealth in the first gulf war was. Military is a whole lot less meaningful that it used to be. Strength, measured in tanks and boats, does not equal the ability to resist harm, or the ability to inflict harm.

The chinese have the Skval, a one-shot one-kill weapon for a carrier battle group for which there is no known defense. Navally they can crush the Japanese, and maybe the USA.

The chinese have a successful space program, which is for them, as it was for us, a propagandistic front for a strong ICBM capability. Neither Japan, nor the US have a demonstrated strong defense system for that sort of warfare.

The chinese are hugely interacting and interdependent and profiting from economic interaction with the world, something they would categorically lose in that sort of a war. That might be a negative incentive that leads away from war. Things like economic warfare, and information warfare become significant in the "peaceful" meetings of cultures.

Strength, or "stronger", is one of those ideas that in the real world, like all worthwhile things in the real world, it is fuzzy, complicated, and messy.

Answer 2

LOL are you kidding me?! The Japanese have a - i think - JDF (Japanese Defence Force) who's members are all old or buggered and don't use the best equipment given their limited spending and number only at 40,000 maybe? Even their F-2's (F-16s modified with Jap electronics that cost 3 times more) were made to protect shipping in rivers and coast waters lol What I am sure though is that the Americans have over 30,000 Marines there. Given the technological superiority, they still can't fight the Chinese. Why? I can't remeber who quoted it, Mao Tse Tung or a WW2 Russian but the quotation was "Quantity has a quality of its own". The Chinese military has quite a lethal navy (with rumoured cruise missile and aircraft carrier in research), not too bad air force and yeah, 2.5 million active soldiers and 2.5 million reserve soldiers and 40 million civilians reaching military age annualy in their population of 1.3 billion people? They have the world's largest standing army and 2nd biggest military budget (though there still isn't enough money for them to give the best equipment to all troops or buy enough airplanes for their tons of paratroopers because the US would make a lot of dumb complaints of 'worrying destabalisation of regional power balance' when the US spends more money on its military than every military budget in the world combined!!! Ofcourse, that doesn't mean that the Chinese have totally useless equipment). Thus, with the odds absoluetely against them, bloody hell, the four small japanese islands better brace themselves!

Answer 3

No way
The Japanese military is only there for defense and the Chinese military has more then the whole Japanese population,after what the Japanese military did in World War 2 they aren't allowed to have nukes either

Answer 4

Absolutely not.

The Japanse military is techinically a "defense force" in classification due to their small numbers.

The Chinese military has more members (including reserves) than the population of Japan.

So to answer your question again, absolutely not.

Answer 5

No but they are a major force. They have almost 250,000 soldiers, the 6th largest Defense budget at $45 Billion a year.

They however lack offensive capabilities.

Answer 6

Japanese military was dismantled after WW2. The US has there back now.

Answer 7

China rules

Answer 8

its not stronger,actually its still being rebuild,china has a very large and powerful.very soon it will be a force to recon with ,for america

Answer 9

um....no. i don't think their constitution allows them spend heavily on military. the US has several military installations their for strategic defense. regardless china's military is stronger just by pure numbers.

Answer 10

nah...way back in ww2 but not now

i think those militaristic leaders back then will roll in their graves now when they see how weak japan militarily is now