1- Were CCP strategic, they would target Palau first, not Taiwan. Whether they have sea-lift to do that is arguable. But were a Palau invasion force to meet no US resistance -- as is most likely given D.C.'s installed CCP partisans in charge -- CCP could deal with Taiwan later at leisure and move immediately to threaten the line Sitka-Oahu-Lima. The installed officials already have pulled the US western defense line back to Oahu -- as Japanese have pointed out and other Asian nations have already moved to address -- and likely, in their minds, back to the US west coast, at minimum.
2- Under optimal circs -- USG mechanisms in hands of enlightened patriots -- US and Asian countries deploy Battalion Task Forces along flanks of possible CCP lines of march east and south.
3- The key alliance in all of this is US-India-Russia. Installed officials will never do that, of course, but patriots should plan for it and signal that ahead of arriving in D.C., which will happen soon enough.
Put some of those defenses - including UAVs - on Quemoy and Matsu - https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/the-taiwan-crisis-you-are-missing-a-chinese-invasion-of-quemoy-and-matsu/
Where have USNA grads been for the last 30 years? The guilty wear boondocksers , fix USNA.
FWIW, three points:
1- Were CCP strategic, they would target Palau first, not Taiwan. Whether they have sea-lift to do that is arguable. But were a Palau invasion force to meet no US resistance -- as is most likely given D.C.'s installed CCP partisans in charge -- CCP could deal with Taiwan later at leisure and move immediately to threaten the line Sitka-Oahu-Lima. The installed officials already have pulled the US western defense line back to Oahu -- as Japanese have pointed out and other Asian nations have already moved to address -- and likely, in their minds, back to the US west coast, at minimum.
2- Under optimal circs -- USG mechanisms in hands of enlightened patriots -- US and Asian countries deploy Battalion Task Forces along flanks of possible CCP lines of march east and south.
3- The key alliance in all of this is US-India-Russia. Installed officials will never do that, of course, but patriots should plan for it and signal that ahead of arriving in D.C., which will happen soon enough.