I think that it is important to recognize that the US military industrial complex is built to incentivize the use of expensive technologies to solve battle problems. I would also suggest that the system assigns unrealistic abilities to their adversaries.
I think the latter is especially true for China. It has certainly increased the number of platforms in the air and sea environment, but has yet to demonstrate the capability to manage joint effects in a complex battle space.
A war over Taiwan is a distraction from the the larger issue of managing Chinese aggression in all sphere’s, cyber, diplomatic, economic, monetary, cultural, International aid, environmental degradation, and many other touch points.
Iraq is the poster child for the most effective use of military force to a achieve a political objective, regime change, in the history of warfare. The mess after “Mission Accomplished” is the poster child for failure on every other non military foreign engagement metric.