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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: Magnum44

Yes, that plays well...


21 posted on 09/19/2017 8:33:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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To: Parley Baer; All

“I wonder what a secret, ‘kinetic’ option is?”

Fidget Spinners!

The kids can drive the NK parents as nutty as the American parents! ;)


22 posted on 09/19/2017 8:34:31 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOL, oh the huge manatees...


23 posted on 09/19/2017 8:35:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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To: JP1201

I don’t think that is what he said with his answer. He simply suggests we have options.


24 posted on 09/19/2017 8:37:53 PM PDT by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Promise the Nork people some generators so they can watch TV after dark and they’d probably run the Fat Boi out of the country for us.


25 posted on 09/19/2017 8:38:39 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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>> a few tricks up its sleeve that wouldn’t involve the decimation of Seoul.

I prefer Trump’s rhetoric than Mattis’ comforting words to the Left.


26 posted on 09/19/2017 8:39:05 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Been thinking. Any military action will require a lot of PR action. We’ll need Korean commandos to overtake the concentration camps and free everyone. Capture the scrawny guards and use cable ties to handcuff them. As the prisoners are freed allow film crews to give them 30 second sound bites and point their fingers at the guards who are most guilty. Karmas a bitch.


27 posted on 09/19/2017 8:39:13 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: bigbob

hahaha yeah...


28 posted on 09/19/2017 8:40:28 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: bigbob

You may be on to something there.

As long as you include shows from the South, it might work.

I can only imagine what shows the North produces.


29 posted on 09/19/2017 8:41:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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To: smokingfrog

Metro is 25,600,000.


30 posted on 09/19/2017 8:43:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: JP1201

The cyber ferrets are being kitted out and are ready for their drone mother ship.


31 posted on 09/19/2017 8:45:09 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Not convinced we’re going to have the South rush in.

China might be okay with us removing Kim, but I doubt they’re going to allow all their efforts to shore up the North, go to waste to let the South Koreans move in.

Cut the head off the leader. Give his troops the chance to remain in barracks, and let a new civilian government form to deal with the atrocities.

Many of the military members probably want Kim gone too.

Snuff the top brass who carried out order from Kim, and make a clean slate of it.

If handled right, North Korea might be able to turn into a moderate nation.

Japan was a devil’s playground for a period of time, and it has turned out to be a decent player on the world stage.


32 posted on 09/19/2017 8:46:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Kinetic in military terminology is more than simply application of force- it is used to equate military action in terms of speed, violence and agility- the tenets of modern US warfare doctrine. IOW, we won’t be fooling around much.

The march on Baghdad in early 2003 was a kinetic operation- cover as much ground as quickly as possible while destroying as much of the enemy force and command/control as possible while avoiding becoming decisively engaged ( maintaining agility).

I would take Kelly’s remarks as nothing more than alluding to a set of contingency plans for the reduction of the centers of gravity ( things/people/infrastructure that make a system work) in NORK via all means necessary and effective to render the regime military blind, leaderless and exposed to fires from a combined operation as quickly as possible.

Operational Plans (OPLAN) with a date of execution become Operational Orders (OPORDs) and are the basis of all military and naval operations coordinated by a (usually) Joint Forces Headquarters, in this case Pacific Command (PACOM).

Nukes can be included in a kinetic operation.


33 posted on 09/19/2017 8:47:39 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of and they are allowed to vote!War")
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To: JP1201
Think about it for a moment, we use “kinetic weapons” all the time; we just don't call them that. We call them “training rounds” and we've become pretty good at using them, too. imagine one of those training rounds dropped from, say, 10,000 feet up from the bombay of a B-52 onto a Nork motor pool full of tanks, missile launchers, etc. Although they won't explode, they will smash really nicely. The damage they will do to his launching silos by punching through and smashing everything in the round’s path will be a tragedy for him, and what do you think his troups will do when they see the damage an inert round did? Sobering thoughts. Especially if we drop leaflets afterwards saying we were "just practicing, and the next time is for real."
34 posted on 09/19/2017 8:51:54 PM PDT by egfowler3 (Vacancy)
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To: JP1201
Kinetic bombardment


35 posted on 09/19/2017 8:52:23 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
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To: Afterguard

Yes.


36 posted on 09/19/2017 8:55:54 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Bat Bombs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb


37 posted on 09/19/2017 8:59:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JP1201

China is responsible for NK. China needs to pay dearly if we needs to go to war with NK.


38 posted on 09/19/2017 9:01:14 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: JP1201

If this constant tough talk actually scared Kim, he would not be firing missiles (sometimes even over our allies’s territory) and exploding bombs on a regular basis.


39 posted on 09/19/2017 9:01:17 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Fungi

Nope. Jimmah Cahtah cancelled that program just so we couldn’t use it for any situations exactly like we’re facing today.


40 posted on 09/19/2017 9:01:48 PM PDT by shotgun
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