Posted on 08/08/2017 9:03:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
The fallout is unfortunate, but better that it occur 5000 miles from our shores. Hopefully the Chinese will wake up and realize it is time to put down their rabid pit bull before the fallout becomes a reality.
Now Kim is threatening Guam.
Yep - shock and “Awwww, what a mess - did we do thaat?” (picture Urkel saying it...)
If, by some fluke, the fight were to stay conventional it wouldn't last much longer. The Norks have little fuel for the armed forces. So after the "Big Blow-off" of artillery around the Seoul region, the Norks would be facing a South Korean invasion with very little to defend with (except WMD's, of course). You could see a full-spectrum war. Strategic & tactical nukes, conventional mechanized assault, chemical weapons.
B1-Bs are no longer nuclear capable - Clinton's gift to the Russians.
Also, they cannot operate in a heavy air-defensed area - that would be a job for our 20-or-so B-2s.
I believe B1-Bs CAN, though, carry a huge amount of stand-off munitions.
Reality check. If we are telling them about it, it us not part of a military plan. Just a political one. Its what we do without talking actually contains the real violence.
Heat-signature, I would imagine.
Back when SAC was active and the cold war was in full swing, Anderson AFB was a busy place. During Vietnam there was a constant convoy of trucks carrying bombs from the Naval port at Agana (southern tip of Guam) up to the AFB on the Northern tip. The first couple of generations of locals after WWII were strong supporters of the U.S., but that waned over time. It will be interesting to see observe the political climate on this forward strategic outpost.
BTW, SPAM is major food group on this and many other island communities occupied by American forces during WWII. As a U.S. Trust Territory Guam also enjoys duty free goods, Havana Cigars, and cheap booze. I hear the MJ in and around Guam is high grade weed.
...and now, back to our regularly scheduled program.
When Eisenhower was president, he had a formation of B-52s armed with nuclear weapons headed toward Russia 24/7. When they reached a certain point they would turn back and another formation would take off to replace it. The Russians knew about it and it was a military plan. John Kennedy discontinued it to ease tensions. It didn’t work.
B1-Bs are no longer nuclear capable.
You might be right, as I seem to remember a SALT issue. Does SALT apply where NK is concerned? With that in mind what used to be and no longer is, can be undone.
If you are going to attack you take out their missile launchers they have to be top priority. They don’t get a bird off the ground once the shooting starts. At the same time you take out their leadership and command and control and nuclear production facilities. Then comes artillery batteries in Seoul area as final targets in an initial strike.
I would hope that, by this time, we would have thoroughly mapped out where the NK artillery bunkers were.
I wonder just how many individually-targetable bunker-busting JDAMs a B-1 can carry?
You misunderstood my post. I was suggesting that it would be better to nuke lil kim and have the fallout occur over Asia than to permit a madman to attack our territory. There was no implication that Guam is not part of USA or deserving of our support.
That sounds very unpleasant. Perhaps the hope would be that the North Korean army would throw down their weapons and loot the nearest South Korean grocery store.
My apologies for misunderstanding.
It appears to be getting real
The President has stolen the news cycle. He substituted fear of nuclear war for Robert Mueller war on the presidency
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