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It was originally an artillery tractor for heavy guns, but had enough space/power to make it useful for other things in a pinch.

Air flow ventilating the ship to keep it cool in tropical waters spread it about, maybe? They weren't underway so they would have needed to actively ventilate the lower parts of the ship, and the dusk ended up sparking in a fan motor?

You don't seem to consider the possibility of hitting the dam with a cruise missile, from the back side. Use the water mass to amplify the blasts, the same way sappers use water tampers to create shaped charges. There are sub-launched cruise missiles, so making a cruise missile water proof...

Those nation's own militaries, and China's own internal issues. Even without the US or anyone else getting involved, no way the CCP takes Taiwan or any other nation, militarily without 3 Gorges and a lot of other critical bits eating a cruise missiles or suicide drone. The weight and power...

You say this like it's a matter of faith, or a foregone conclusion; that is not the view of much of the public and they are not going to live their lives as though it is. Stop thinking the civies exist to serve as bodies for military actions; the military serves the civies, not the other way...

Conventional attacks on Taiwan, Japan, or Australia will most likely result in people calling for sanctions, maybe a blockade; it won't create support for a draft or a full on war. China may be hated by a lot of people in the US for various reasons, but that hate is not so deep many will be ok...

I do not think you really get how out of touch with the civie side of things you sound like when you say stuff like that. You really do not get how unpopular even mentioning a draft as a possibility would be, or how few people are willing to die on the front-lines to stop China, when most...

A 'war' may happen, but that does not mean a draft will. Lot easier to buy more drones, and increase the load on existing soldiers/sailors, than it is to deal with the domestic backlash from even hinting that a draft may be on the table. If you think people who believe the US is a racist...

Too bad they didn't succeed. The second a draft is even floated in the US in the modern political climate, is the second the group suggesting burns a massive amount of political capital, and alienates a lot of the youth. The only people who think a draft would realistically happen these days...