re: #241 Guanxi88

With air power, and superior strategy (which Chiang had in spades), he might easily have routed the Red Army in Korea. Under equipped, poorly trained, and tragically misled, their “peoples’ war” model would be no match for Chiang.

Possibly. The Nationalists maintaining air superiority would have to hinge on the Chinese Red Air Force forgetting any war experience they had. And even an ace can only do so much against a never-ending horde…

On the second point, though, he would have to dislodge them from a mountain range. Even poorly-led and armed peasants don’t give up a mountain range without one hell of a fight.