Posted on 02/05/2005 8:10:25 PM PST by Paul_Denton
Sheese, they sure are specific aren't they? No telegraphing going on here...
Thanks for the post VN.. ... have to know what all is floating around out there....
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I have no doubt you are right! And what purpose would it serve if we really did that? Even the Chinese is trying to get Kim Dung II into trying capitalism for a change and see what happens!
We really need no help from the S. Koreans to stirring the pot. Right now we have all we can handle for now!
jawbone.... hehehehe!
'I feel a draft.'
Draft would do little good since the war would be over before they got out of bootcamp.
Not quite true. The Army alone has more than that, if you include it's reserve components. Add in a goodly number of Air Force, Navy and Marines (including their reserve forces as appropriate) and we could field that many without sending nearly the whole DoD. How we would get them to the Korean AO is an entirely different question.
The only trouble with North Korea is that China will rear its red head if we go in. I would wager the bluster of this number of troops is meant to make China pause, rather than North Korea.
I doubt it will have the desired effect, as it is clear we are moving away from block numbers of troops to small scale elite forces able to be deployed immediately with little fuss. What they are unable to do, improved technology is meant to compensate. This is fairly well known by all.
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A pretty tough one too. A guy I went to college with and also worked summers in a factory with (he worked full time year round and went to school) was in the ROK army. He was luckily though, he was KATUSA (IIRC), Korean army support for the US Army. The NCOs in that group couldn't just haul off and smack a troop with their hands or with a rifle butt, as regular ROK NCOs could and often did. (The RoK Army traditions come mostly from the pre WW-II Japanese.)
South Korea has asked us to leave. We are bringing troops home from S. Korea.
The number stated cannot be correct....
This article is silly.
Excellent and logical points.
Applause, Applause, Applause!
We would have to use one of them surgical nuclear bombs to not take out Seoul.
The first wave of US deployments ? About 300 nuclear warheads.
We have great nuclear capabilities but few conventional forces. Our leaders let our conventional forces pull down too far.
The draft is gone, the bases are gone, the people to train them are gone and the factories and infrastructure to supply them are gone.
To get the infrastructure in place to rebuild them would take years and many billions of dollars that we don't have.
We can nuke the world as Russia can, but we don't have the boots, conventional equipment, logistic support, or bases to take, occupy and control a mediocre third world country like Iraq.
It is vital to have both nuclear and a strong conventional force. One without the other is useless.
Nuclear is useful for deterrent only.No one can win in nuclear exchange.
We are seeing our country slipping into the same has been role the former economic and military world powers faded into.
Just as Regan sensed the economic and military weakening of the Soviet Union and took advantage of it, now our enemies sense the same about us.
It looks like we are going to try to appease those in the middle east who hate us with our money and with chunks of Israel.
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