Bluster when we have a gutted military and a public full of pacifists? First, Trump needs to try to rally the nation against the threat, as Winston Churchill did in his era.
This is, at the end of the day, and ankle biter that we’re trying to find an excuse to squish. I don’t think it’s about getting the American people on board. When it comes to NK, they have been for a long time. I think it’s about China.
And it is looking that that particular issue may have been taken care of.
When I was in the first assigned to the 82d Abn Div, we had a Division Readiness Force which was one battalion on 2-hour standby to be the first to deploy. The first time our battalion took over DRF1, we went over the motor pool at n=midnight the day before the assumption inspection, and we took distributors, break pads and other equipment off the very vehicles of a sister battalion coming off DRF1, all with the coordination of the two battalion motor officers/sergeants. This is the very state of readiness we see today on display - just as 1974-75, the nation has overtaxed the military and under funded her. From Nixon to Clinton, the worst years were the four under Carter, but Clinton was a slow bleed to the bottom.