“And then we need to be prepared to counter any North Korean conventional blows against South Korea.”
With what? Giant Spaulding catchers mits for the artillery shells coming in like rain in a hurricane? With all due respect, Peters has not been right about anything to crow about for the last few years. I have gotten to the point where I treat his commentary just as credible as Obama.
Seoul can’t be protected, but by all indications (e.g. Lyndsey Graham’s statements after discussing it with Trump) Trump knows he was elected to advance US interests, not South Korean.
I expect Trump to attack with heavy bombers from Guam and US ships in international waters. We don’t need South Korea’s permission to protect our homeland from NK nukes.
A dozen B-1Bs carrying 50+ CBU-87 per sortie, 3 sorties per day will solve the artillery problem.
They will take out the vast majority in 24hrs.
Besides, the CORE OBJECTIVE here is to protect US existential interests.
Not Seoul. Seoul and Tokyo are high priority, but secondary concerns.
By yielding to SKorean fear of the north for 60 years we have allowed a direct threat to the US mainland to emerge.
I quit reading when I saw who the author was