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To: Tsinogatna who wrote (4582)	10/26/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Respond to of 6418

sorry but with all do respect to our Chinese allies they would have been of almost no value in a war against the Soviets. 1. they had their own Civil War festering. 2. the soon to be victorious faction was communist and would have sided with the Soviets. 3. their infantry may have been battle hardened but they were essentially light infantry. They had next to no armour and artillery. Light infantry would have stood no chance against Soviet heavy armour formations. 4. there would have been of little value in their airbase. First the area that borders the Soviet Union was extremely remote and would have required an extreme logisitic effort to even get close to Russia and then would have been at the end of a long and very tenuous supply line. And even then these bases would still have been out of range of the Russian industrial base.

To: Tsinogatna who wrote (4582)	10/26/1999 9:50:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 6418

Nationalist China was militarily incompetent because of corruption and Chiang Kai Shek's isolation. It could not even defend US bomber bases in China from Japanese attack. The only hardened troops (and they were ill-equipped) were the Communists in Shensi, hardly like to attack the USSR. One of the concessions the US got at Yalta was Stalin's very limited support of CCP and his expressed good will to the KMT. China was always a burden on the US, and no one in authority thought that CKS was worth the trouble he cauaed. One of the reasons the US "lost China" -- there wasn't anything to save.