load of croak,based on the yom kippur war and lebanon war,the americans will have a much much harder time than any other opponent in history,they cant even handle a bunch of terrorists,cave men,talibans u expect the world to take them seriously?the americans arent winning shit without nukes.in this day and age,war is fought by surface to air missiles,land to sea cruise missiles,anti tank guided missiles,ballistic missiles and icbms.not tank battles or naval battles,just like the yom kippur war and lebanon war and vietnam war has shown,SAMs and atgms and cruise missiles will kick the western's ass.besides china has homeground advantage,their defenses will have overwhelming advantage combined with their offense,while america only has their offense and is seperated by 8000km of geography.massing a huge force and logistics over that distance will be extremely costly and expensive......10 times more expensive than Iraq war.which means USA will go bankrupt 10 times as fast.