What if America went to war with North Korea and China? Who would win?

Answer 1

If the U.S. went to war with North Korea alone, the U.S. would win -- if we could get free of other entanglements that are currently occupying our troops. We would have an overwhelming technical superiority and there would be a serious question of how long the majority of North Korean troops would fight.

China would be a more difficult question merely because of the size and population of China. China has the resources to engage in a lengthy war of attrition with the U.S. The U.S. clearly has superior weapon systems over any other country in the world. However, there is a point where sheer numbers begin to outweigh superior weaponry. China may have such numbers.

Answer 2

With China, US doesn't stand a chance at all. I am not talking in terms of military might of both these countries. But logically speaking, if US cannot pull all mouses for their holes in Iraq, there is no question of it winning against a regular army like PLA.

With North Korea it is different ball game altogether. US has got enough wherewithal to mount a war. But like Kuwait war, it needs to arrange its regional allies to strongly back it militarily. But diplomatically speaking, it has to convince two of the major powers - Russia & China to support it in a war against North Korea. That is easier said than done.

Finally, US might be the only super power in the world today. But unlike the past, with world diplomacy is more dictated by commerce than sheer ideology, waging a war against even an improvised rouge country like North Korea (reaching a concensus) would be a near impossible task.

Answer 3

China, though huge is limited logistically, that is they cannot effective mass troops over distance. The US can have troops virtually anywhere in the world in a short period of time. China also lacks a strategic bomber force, viable and large amphibious forces, and has an immobile and centralized style of command. People forget, the US fought China to a standstill and actually gained ground on them in the Korean War, a war which cost China about 1,000,000 lives.

I was stationed in Korea for a year. North Korea is a military threat to the region, and of course to the Korean peninsula in particular. They have a large, heavily mechanized army, but again centralization tactic and command makes this army much less effective then it could be otherwise. Cut of the head, the command and control, and the body would tend to wither. US command and control is less centralized, soldiers are taught to assume the next higher task if need be and to take initiative on the battle field. A sergeant commanding a tank in the US army has much more authority to give direction and make choices on the battlefield then a Chinese or North Korean soldier, who are generally taught to fight collective and assume no leadership until directed. Because US forces use initiative, and are flexible, they hold the upper hand in any battlefield we may face with China or N. Korea. Technology plays a role, but it is still the individual soldier who makes it WORK. The US can go toe to toe with nearly any nation on the face of the earth and beat them. Don't believe me? Why is it in Iraq insurgents attack primarily with roadside bombs? It is for one primary reason: they cannot hope to fight and prevail in a traditional military conflict, much like the North Vietnamese before them, who never managed to win a single tactical victory in the Vietnam War. We can do more with less, from technology and the quality of the men we have. The North Koreans would shoot their bolt fairly quickly in a conflict, and if success were not achieved quickly, they are doomed, and they know this. Very few have gone toe to toe with the US military and emerged victorious. Much of the same is true regarding China. Aside from nukes they have little in the way to threaten the US militarily, at least conventionally, they lack the ability to project force. The fact that the US can project force, ad even utilize forced entry capabilities (like US Airborne units) also the fact it can deploy soldiers anywhere on earth in a matter of hours, something China cannot do, will always give the US the upper hand in any potential conflict. We can beat both of them, even the more populace one...Korea only has about 20,000,000 people..

Answer 4

The Cockroaches
Total Global thermonuclear war means neither China or America would win
Chinas all right in my book, it's those crazy North Koreans you have to worry about, give the country ten years, let the Chonger pass on and we can go in there peacefully. But if he decides to attack anyone, he'll lose Chinas support and any war. Due to close relations with China, if America attacks North Korea Total Global thermonuclear war and the cockroaches win again.

Answer 5

Depending on the objectives, we would. China has nuclear weapons, but ours are vastly more accurate and numerous. We could eliminate their silo fields without much collateral damage to their population centers, and they don't have modern missile subs. And they know this. The potential for war with China is very low; at base they have a great deal of sense and historically are as peace-loving as any merchant nation could ever be.

North Korea, however, is nuts, and nobody has any desire to get into a fight with them. Even if we won, which we probably would, a sudden collapse of their weird government would be diastrous for the whole peninsula. That's why we've been very patient with them.

Answer 6

There could be mass casualties. yet assuming that the U. S. could drop nukes is a fallacy, the repercussions of that act could be extra then the U. S. ought to ever probably dream of. we'd ought to flow in and sieze the country which might teach to be extra complicated then people think of. NK is a rustic of followers and via this decade on my own, we've considered what followers to a reason can do to a international locations protection tension and economic equipment. There could mass cassualties on the two sides, extra then the folk of the U. S. are keen to commit. If China or Russia steped in on NK's behalf there could be even extra beneficial problems. The "suitable undertaking" for a conflict with NK could be for the U. S. to soften them up and enable China take the brunt of the Infantry attack. China favors the NK edge of the Penninsula for Strategic purposes, no longer the rest. NK would not provide China the different earnings different then a buffer to their western borders. If China have been to become in contact it may in basic terms be to guard their hobbies, that has been China's MO for years.

Answer 7

I think we need to consider first things first, like being able to finish the job in Iraq. I do not think North Korea and China or a threat right now. Iran... well that is a whole different story.

Answer 8

I want to say America but I'm not sure. To start, North Korea tends to be rash so they might just drop atomic bombs on the U.S. Not only that, but China has A LOT of people so chances are America will run out of soldiers first.

Answer 9

It would become nuclear without a doubt. America would win, but the country would collapse from the loss of the western seaboard after the exchange.

Answer 10

If USA goes to war... well... if they fight N korea alone they will win..
But with china and N.korea we would lose