Great link.
Johnnyharvard, I think you underestimate the problems in amphibious landings. “Flooding” a well-defended beach with infantrymen gets you a lot of dead infantrymen, fast. It’s WW1 stuff: Pin them down with machineguns, pound the beach with artillery. (Or the other way round). Fight break-outs with a mobile reserve.
OK, scary scenario: Lob a medium-sized tactical warhead over your intended bridgehead - and then send in a bunch of one-time soldiers. Sure, they’ll get radiation sickness within days - but not until they’ve secured a perimeter. No defenders are going to be all that eager to enter the fall-out area, anyway. Now land your crack troops and send them straight through the contaminated area into the defending positions - while the defender is still trying to reorganize after the EMP has screwed his electronics well & truly up. Of course you make sure to claim loudly that it was Taiwan who detonated the warhead in an attempt to vaporize your own troops. Leaves the problem of safe passage over the strait unsolved, but it might be a quick and dirty way to force an opposed landing.
There are better strategists than me out there - comments, anyone ?
Norman