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Mattis hints at secret 'kinetic' military options for North Korea
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Posted on 09/19/2017 8:15:36 PM PDT by JP1201

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To: Widget Jr
Mattis has so many assets between the US and ROK alone, the North won't know what hit them.

We keep saying stuff like hat when we have been fighting a small group of radicals in Afghanistan for 20 years without success.

I guess we should consider that Poppy fields have value, poor people don't so presents a different collateral damage question I guess.

121 posted on 09/20/2017 5:40:40 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: oldasrocks; JP1201; All

I don’t like dignifying him with a name like rocketman. Can’t we come up with something more demeaning but correct?


122 posted on 09/20/2017 10:39:52 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Greg Gutfeld calls him the dictator-tot.
My favorite, though, is the Juche-fruit.


123 posted on 09/20/2017 10:45:44 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: JP1201

Whether “kinetic” means lethal military force or “We’re gonna use our ship-mounted railguns to shoot down their missiles” or both, it works for me.


124 posted on 09/20/2017 10:49:20 PM PDT by According2RecentPollsAirIsGood
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To: sparklite2; All

How about “baby buzzcut?” Or what is his haircut called?


125 posted on 09/21/2017 12:56:46 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: jonrick46; JP1201; DoughtyOne; BenLurkin; TangoLimaSierra; Captainpaintball; servantboy777; ...

I have recently read two novels regarding an EMP situation in the US. In one version 3 high altitude EMP devices take out all the electronics in the US. The only machines that work are old pre-electronic automobiles and coal operated trains. People begin to starve and fight for food resources, many die, etc. etc. In the second novel an extraterrestrial source takes out the electronics and other technical devices; people are left resorting to horseback and crossbows, etc.

These leaves me to wonder what is in those satellites the Norks put up. If kinetic action is needed, we should take out those satellites immediately, or who knows.


126 posted on 09/21/2017 11:42:04 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Parley Baer

A kinetic option just means an approach the takes the initiative, the offense.

I would not be surprised at the USA having a host of secret weapons.

I can imagine everything from miniaturized, nuclear robotics to robotic directed nap of the earth drones, to satellite based weaponry.


127 posted on 09/21/2017 11:51:17 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: DoughtyOne; spacewarp; All

How many people died when the Russians used sleeping gas in that theater in Moscow? Answer: over 100. This is a complicated and interesting story, well worth reading. Did the captors deliberately murder the hostages, or did they die from the gas? Were all captors killed or did some escape? Was the gas a fentynil based opium derivative? It seems that many captives died from suffocating on their tongues from lying face up. If you are ever gassed, suggest you curl up on your side so your tongue does not fall back and suffocate you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis


128 posted on 09/21/2017 12:00:26 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

I don’t claim to know everything about how to make it work right, but I was hoping for something positive that might have a simple solution that would allow for us to go clean up the bad guys without them shooting at Seoul and our guys and take away the bad guys and put them into prisons and be ready to take care of things.

I don’t really see any way this goes short of destroying nearly all of the North Korean population. They have been taught for decades that we’re the evil enemy coming to kill them and eat their children. The average person will hate us as if we are some sort of vampire come to destroy their entire country.


129 posted on 09/21/2017 12:20:07 PM PDT by spacewarp (FreeRepublic, Rush's show prep since foundation.)
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To: gleeaikin

Exactly. I can not believe this has not been done.


130 posted on 09/21/2017 12:30:27 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Keep Your Friends Close And Enemies Closer? That's what the left is doing with TRUMP!!!)
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To: gleeaikin

>>people are left resorting to horseback and crossbows, etc.<<

Thank the livin Lord I live in Texas. lol Covered!


131 posted on 09/21/2017 12:55:31 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: gleeaikin

You know that the earlier Nork nuke tests were low yield nukes. There was a suggestion that they were testing EMP with these earlier tests. These low yield nukes are not as heavy and with their recent ICBMs can be put into low altitude orbit (500 miles). They have the power to put out a strong EMP over America’s territory, knocking out all electronics. This is why the Pig boasts about hitting us hard. He probably has the ability to do it now. I am worried that this maniacal, suicidal Pig will use this tactic once the newly created economic sanctions work their results. Backed into a corner with the colossal economic effect of the sanctions, the Pig will react, thinking that he can put the U.S. in such a turmoil from the EMP catastrophe, it will not have an effective retaliation. However, we will spend a tremendous amount of our assets pounding the Norks into glass. Meanwhile China will be watching all this unfold with glee. I suspect China is the mastermind behind the entire scheme. Notice that the Pig’s ICBM all are of Chinese appearance. You know China has been collaborating with Nork engineers (likewise, Iran). They are the shadow power orchestrating this conflict. China will get the Pig out of North Korea well ahead of the Death Strike to America. He will have accomplished his mission, sacrificing the Korean people (North and South), to destroy America. This is the Kamikaze tactic. With the U.S. crippled in an economic collapse, China will finish us off.

The technology for taking a satellite out of orbit is a challenging effort. If it goes wrong, it could crash into other satellites and cause a chain reaction of space debris smashing into other satellites. Which makes me wonder what the Air Force’s unmanned space plane, the X-37B, is working on.

Meanwhile, the Japanese startup Astroscale is designing a debris-removal satellite. Astroscale plans to launch in 2018. European Space Agency has a similar project called e.Deorbit, which is a space debris removal initiative planned for launch in 2023 on board a Vega launch vehicle. A British effort, RemoveDebris, amid safety concerns, is planned for the end of 2017 or early 2018. It is a test for its current design:

https://r5-—sn-nx57ynlz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?pl=16&requiressl=yes&signature=71105B6830B8AEB9B62E692D49B3D16B26F225C7.C2F248F1540027F544EAE4361AC54751318C2104&ratebypass=yes&initcwndbps=2193750&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&expire=1506046684&itag=43&mime=video%2Fwebm&source=youtube&ms=au&mv=m&mt=1506024953&clen=16017939&lmt=1461922533594798&gir=yes&dur=0.000&mn=sn-nx57ynlz&mm=31&id=o-AFAnbH6PulZ1JjiPiB0Jgveo7-5ToVUc10rB3q4URZpn&ei=ex7EWerYNMys-gOAwZPACg&ipbits=0&ip=73.221.15.197&key=yt6

I hope the Air Force has our national security in mind with their X-37B efforts, because we may not have enough time for these other efforts to eliminate the Nork threat. And, don’t forget that China has these up there too.


132 posted on 09/21/2017 1:24:44 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: gleeaikin

I think the goal was to simply put folks to sleep there too.

Goes to show it’s not even very easy/safe in an enclosed controlled environment like that either.


133 posted on 09/21/2017 3:33:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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To: Afterguard

Rods from God?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

My thinking exactly: a tungsten telephone pole entering the atmosphere achieving a terminal velocity of
approximately 16000 m.p.h., right onto little Kim-chis basement boudoir.

Talk about plazma!

That would end the tech argument.


134 posted on 09/21/2017 5:09:13 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: JP1201

I have a kinetic watch. Will that help?


135 posted on 09/24/2017 3:37:32 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Blithering Intellectual.)
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