Posted on 03/27/2018 5:43:39 AM PDT by C19fan
A war with North Korea would involve the mobilization of that country’s entire population and the activation of at least 1.2 million active-duty soldiers and 7.7 million reservists. North Korea would then implement plans which the regime designed to fight — and defeat — U.S. forces on the battlefield.
This does not mean North Korea would succeed. One of the biggest problems the North Korean army faces is lack of ability to sustain itself — particularly in terms of fuel, which would limit the ability of its tanks and other armored vehicles to advance south of Seoul, the South Korean capital, unless North Korea were able to capture fuel stockpiles along the way.
(Excerpt) Read more at warisboring.com ...
2 boomers? How many nuke-worthy targets are there in all of North Korea?
Their artillery would not be “available” to shoot at tanks if tanks were in range.
NK salvo, (as well as former Warsaw Pact) was to fire 2 HE, 1 smoke, 1 GB or VX type gas per battery salvo. Explosions+Smoke are good to hide a Chem/bio round. They use yellow and white smoke to mask the agent.
Wrong. Good arty strike will f**k up tanks. It shreds aerials, throws tracks, shatters critical thermal and NV sights, periscopes, etc.
Look at how Russia decimated the inept Ukrainian armored brigades in the Crimea and Don Blass. 122mm arty f**ked them up and they abandoned their tanks as they were immobile, out of commo, and blind.
Gotta keep moving and hope your counter battery fire will give you a heads up if you stop to refuel/rearm. That's the witching hour in "Injun" country.
Not enough for those critical assets unless we need a quick strike. (<10 mins via low trajectory shot from a Trident). B-61 dial a yield nukes on Anderson from B1/B2 is all we need. Unfortunately no 155mm or 8" nuclear rounds left in our arsenal. I may still have a few dozen 8" /W33 nuclear pits at Kingman AFB, NM in storage, but no other components. We'd have to rebuild that warhead from scratch as it has already been disassembled at Pantex.
IIRC, one of those "boomers" is an SSGN, not an SSBN.
Makes me wonder if some wise NORK general or generals have come to the conclusion that since Lil Kim took his choo choo to China, now would be a good time to blow the rail bridges and demolish the tracks so he can’t come back...
Abundant mineral resources (that the Chinese would covet)
The first thing the U.S. would do is decapitate NK’s command and control structure. That done, picking off the other elements would probably be a turkey shoot.
If my job was to attack an enemy armored column (indirect) artillery would not be my first choice of weapons.
I would. You'd either kill or button up their personnel if you can surprise them, shred their commo, damage their vision devices, damage their smoke launchers, get a mobility kill on the tracks, obscure movement with smoke (most drivers dont have thermals), etc. Arty creates chaos.
I'd hit an armored column HARD with arty and then flank them or hope it delays them enough to call in airpower AND armor.
We’re not going to invade NK for minerals. Period. What might happen is that we topple the government, allow reunification and let the nice folks from SK mine and sell them to us. Plenty of Norks would be happy to do work and get paid for it!!!
I don’t know if China would allow reunification unless we had boots on the ground.
And some Spookies (AC-130x) for general clean up.
The NORKs have manpower, and quantity has a quality of it’s own ...
—
And if you cannot feed them ...
I think it was once very clearly explained to the grandfather that NK would suffer at least 3 salvos of nukes, the last of which would take out the remaining small towns ...
Maybe after Seattle or San Francisco gets taken out... Maybe. Anything short of that and we don’t go nuclear, I think. This ain’t the same country that defeated Japan in WW2.
I think, just maybe, China cares more about what a trade war with US would do to their economy. And I also think NK is more of a cost than a benefit to them these days.
Thank you for that excellent and detailed explanation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.