Lets pretend that WW3 will be faught with conventional
warfare and it was faught tommorow. Wouldn't this be a
interesting matchup (i'm going to use side a & side b as opposed
to labelling axis and allies and entering who is the good guy /
bad guy debate)
Side A
USA, UK, Germany, Japan, India, Canada,
Australia, Israel, Taiwan, South Korea & Majority of the EU
Vs
Side B
Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Turkey
From a conventional standpoint, it would be a very long war.
On Side A, you would see industrial nations such as USA, UK,
Germany, Japan, Canada and a couple of EU nations
providing the bulk of the heavy hardware. I think you would see countries like Taiwan (yes I am a independant Taiwan person, Japan has more of a claim to it than China, but thats a discussion for another day) and Israel taken relativly early in the war, but probably taken back and used as staging grounds pretty quickly as well. I think Australia would serve to be a very valuable staging area at the onset of the war. Population wise, which can be converted into troop amounts would be I think in Side A's
favor. That means India would be pivital to Side A.
On Side B, you would see nations like Russia, China, North
Korea and Iran being the main suppliers of heavy equipment.
From a geographic standpoint, with the proper offensive, I think
you could see Side B drive relatively deep into Europe before
Side A could respond (with 3 of the industrial nations being
a large distance away and that translates into time required
to transport massive amounts of equipment over and landing
them). UK & Germany would be paramount to repelling long
enough for the bulk of US forces to come over. However, thats
assuming that Side B would go for Europe and Israel first and
not use mass amounts of Russian equipment to surprise and
make an assault on North America. Iran would be the backbone
of taking Israel. The best strategy for side b would probably
be for them to quickly take Israel and Taiwan, have part of the
Russian forces and Iranian forces ( backed by the other
mideast powers) pushing into Europe. Forcing the UK to deal
with Europe's problems. Have China dealing with India, with
Pakistans help. Lastly, have a large Russian naval force
transporting massive amounts of Chinese and Russian troops
try to make a landing in Western Canada or Mexico and
keep North America occupied. The idea would be to
catch north america off guard when they are sending equipment
through the Atlantic to the Euro front (thus they would have the
bulk of the navy escorting)
Honestly, I think either side could win in conventional.
the scales would be tipped in whoever can build
equipment the quickest. I think Side B would have the
initial advantage in the Euro/Mideast front, but once the backup
comes, then would probably be pushed back to a chokepoint.
No offense to the Indian Army, but I think China would likely
dispatch of them, just because of China's
conventional missle ability and amount of heavy armor. But
it would keep the majority of Chinese forces busy for
a while. It could end up a draw, with peace treaties and
land negotiation or it could end up with one side having
better strategy and a bit of luck. However if this was to
happen in say 2010 - 2020 and China continues to
spend the kind of money it is now on equipment then this
analysis could very well change.
There is my quick WWIII analysis
