America loves fighting so much it's had a civil war and fought a few of it's closest allies at various times.
China is a novice at fighting. Whilst they may have lots of ships, having really good people to fight in a complex battlespace is different.
The last war China was involved in was the relatively small Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979. And the last one before that was WW2.
It would be hard to count all the wars the US involved themselves in during that time.
However, with regards to China Americans seem to be mostly worried about Taiwan. Taiwan is a lot closer to the coast of the PRC than it is to the coast of the US. (On the other hand, the people living in Taiwan are even closer to Taiwan than the PRC is. And they would certainly enter the fray, too.)
Assaulting a beach head is up there as possible the most difficult thing you can do. In WW2 the Allies got lucky because, Radar, Missiles, and drones didn't exist yet. Taiwan has stacks of weapons, enough to repel and invasion and they also have, jungles, mountains and cities to extend the fighting into.
Alas, as we've seen with Russia's attack on Ukraine, something being a bad idea and unlikely to succeed is not enough to declare it impossible.
I don't think you can extrapolate fighting in Kosovo, Afghanistan, or Iraq to fighting China. If a war were to break out, both sides would be learning a lot of lessons very quickly.
I don’t think China has a chance until they’ve at least had a practice run with a real conflict somewhere.
A US-China war would most likely be fought in the South China Sea. Most of China's supply train would be moving through China, whereas most of the US's supply train would be moving half way around the world through open ocean. It's not clear why the lack of Chinese experience fighting overseas wars or the US's experience moving materiel through uncontested ocean against non-peer adversaries would apply here.
Remember, the last time the US fought a war without uncontested sea routes and naval superiority was WWII.
I am not that sure anymore. US armaments industry got a bad case of Wall Street in the 1990s and there aren't many factories left. Even though the US is indirectly involved in a big land war with Russia, plus has a lot of purchase orders from other countries, the industry is spinning up at snail's pace. Smaller countries in Europe will wait 10 or more years for their F-35s.
One of the serious diseases of the developed world is bureaucracy. The US has way less of it than, say, Germany (which is almost a fatal case), and maybe it could get rid of it in times of need.
Maybe. But Starship development is still being delayed by licensing, even though said licensing didn't stop the only really serious problem until today (the destruction of the concrete launch pad in Boca Chica).
They had their own civil war that went from the early 1900s right up until 1965 which was sporadically interrupted by the Japanese.
The Chinese did nothing but fight for two thirds of the twentieth century
But not at wining. Last war US won was WW2.
Newertheless, US discovered that wars are good for making money.
