start cracking some skulls then if you have evidence of them planning to flee.
How can anything take this long?
who with? China?
A more dangerous enemy, a nation-less state is already embedded within the country…rotting it from the inside. How do you use conventional weapons against such a force? They'd just camouflage themselves among the civilian population and inflict massive collateral damage.
i dunno man.
unleashing the military might of two super powers in a modern setting would be terrifying.