Recently, the US Navy aircraft carrier was attacked by the Houthi armed forces in Yemen, and I think there is a lot of controversy on the Internet. It's been a few days, and we're not going to talk about the incident itself. I would like to talk about a phenomenon that I have recently discovered, and there are still some people in China who have unrealistic illusions about the military power of the United States. It seems that according to the military level of the United States that surpasses the world, it is impossible for the Houthis to hit the American aircraft carrier.
Is the U.S. military really as powerful as everyone remembers? If we compare China from today's perspective, the United States may indeed be a little stronger than China in a certain aspect. But you want the United States to come to the Asia-Pacific region and fight a local war with China. The United States will definitely not come. Because the United States itself does not have the confidence to win against China in the Asia-Pacific region. Otherwise, with the tone of the United States, I am afraid that it would have been done a long time ago.
Then push back a little bit of time, the South China Sea conflict in 2016. We often say that 2016 is the last chance for the United States to cripple China through military action. Until then, the United States has a chance to win. But after 2016, China accelerated its anti-access/area denial construction. In 2019, China's military parade basically announced the inevitable defeat of the United States in the Western Pacific. Because at that time, the DF-26 had already been unveiled, and the US base in Guam entered the Chinese range.
In this way, the United States is not powerful at all? Of course not, I have never denied that in the past, the United States was the world's leading military power, and it was a big step ahead of the world. But this "big cut" and how big it is may be where everyone miscalculates the US military strength. Let's go back a little further and the Gulf War in 1990-91. In my opinion, it is this war that has led the whole world astray.
The Gulf War is highly regarded by the whole world, saying that it is a hallmark of modern warfare. The United States makes a textbook presentation. The technical means and weapons used by the United States in the war can be called alien technology. It turns out that a superpower can really crush small countries from the perspective of strength and achieve dimensionality reduction.
Indeed, at that time, the United States was able to pass through Iraq in 42 days, and even if the Iraqi troops were hiding underground, the US military could still accurately hit the target with one missile. Iraq was so defeated that it could not find the north, but the United States achieved full control of the entire battlefield with the help of information technology and GPS navigation. These are what we know.
What we don't know is that before the start of the Gulf War, the US military began to deliver combat weapons six months ahead of schedule, dispatched a number of aircraft carriers, and mobilized dozens of military bases. Before the official start of the war, the United States had made all the military preparations and spent a lot of money. If you want the United States to re-mobilize on such a large scale, it is impossible for the United States to do it.
Under these circumstances, the United States won an asymmetric war in 42 days by means of information technology. Do you still think that in this Gulf War, the United States is a divine soldier from heaven? It is true that the United States has the largest military strength in the world, but this number one has become bigger and bigger, and the gap has become smaller and smaller, and it is far from being as invincible as some people imagine.
Some people say that China has not fought a war in half a century, so how can it test its combat capability? Then I want to say that since World War II, the United States has never fought a symmetrical war, and has never had a head-on conflict with a country with similar armed forces. In this regard, how can we test the combat capability of the United States?
Now, however, the United States has already had the opportunity to test its combat capability, because the United States today is only one symmetrical war away from completely stepping down from the "altar."