You are familiar with the Tomahawk cruise missile, right?
A "handful" of these... say, six... would provide your 1.5x retaliation quite nicely I think.
“You know, it seems to me that a handful of Tomahawks could sort this right out.”
I disagree right now North Korea is nearing a fork in the road. Those people are bat $#it crazy from cradle to grave and that has served the NK despots rather well to date but keeping a group of fanatics in line will not be easy if they start to lose an all out war.
If however you martyr Crazy Uncle Kim (or his successor) without walking over the whole country all you do is extend the situation another 100 years no matter how bad things get.
Either roll over NK (it would make the Pacific Campaign of WW2 seem tame) or retaliate to NK aggression with a 1.5* sever strike to the site of the aggression.
Which ever it is we need to follow SK’s lead as it’s their nation on the line and they are a decent group to have on your side...
It sounds like that’s what we are doing, Lee Myung-bak decided to go with a more offensive strategy and offer an more effective deterrent, and the US promised him F-22s already
You are familiar with the Tomahawk cruise missile, right?
A "handful" of these... say, six... would provide your 1.5x retaliation quite nicely I think.
Considering the mountainous terrain of North Korea, small tactical nukes used near ground level would work wonders, as the radiation would be contained on all sides by the mountain ranges.