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In theory, in long term. In practice it requires massive investment in technologically, and in few cases also politically non-trivial rail or pipe routes.

Ooooops, too late, a third of them are Muslim already. Add commies, Hindu nationalists and some other ethnic and political groups with own agendas and you can see why India is a political thunderdome.

LMAO, who do you think would be "running things" if USA wasn't, and how the hell they would to that?

It's all about shady backroom politics. https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/national-iranian-american-council-niac/ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/10/50-dnc-leaders-urge-biden-lift-sanctions-and-rejoin-iran-nuclear-deal

It's about time for the reinvention of ramming prows for modern vessels, both for export and domestic USN use. Then affirmative action captains can be written up for target misidentification or excessive aggression instead of incompetence, and the rest could be sold to SEA countries dealing with...

No, that's the description of an average APC, M113, Stryker and BTR are not IFVs. Sure, if someone can handle the cost and logistical demands of having a certain number of IFVs with the material support needs of a tank that's gonna work fine for them... if.

Many piston engines are liquid cooled, like in Spitfire or Me-109. Jets and turbojets tend to be cooled enough by their intake air alone, due to the sheer amount they need to flow through them.

Aircraft get free high powered air cooling instead. Some WW2 planes used that as the only cooling for their engine.

MARVs and semi-ballistic missiles blur the border quite a bit, especially if combined with each other.

MAD applies only to nuclear powers, and even then it applies fully only to those that stay on top of the game in terms of quality and quantity of delivery mechanisms. See: Russia's new strategic torpedo. Something like Pakistan or North Korea, a country with good delivery and countermeasure...

That's very nice for the 3, though would not be so sure Vietnam can do it and get decent delivery systems on top of that in time. The rest of the region can get used to being China's satrapies.

The problem with that reasoning is that if China seizes Taiwan, history doesn't end. If China seizes Taiwan and doesn't regret it, then this is going to be rock hard evidence that China has both the military and political power to seize any SEA country with equal or greater impunity, because...

That's rearguard action/engineer reserve job when they aren't doing it in enemy territory. In WW2 it certainly wasn't something spec ops did, just whoever was guarding the bridge, factory, tunnel or whatever.

Good chances that it would be treated like bridges during WW2. Wire the place with explosives, place some reserve garrison, tell them to press the button if they see Chinese troops and run.

I'm pretty sure people are referring to this incident. https://freebeacon.com/national-security/nsa-details-chinese-cyber-theft-of-f-35-military-secrets/