reportedly, they have been through the war game simulations and there are no good outcomes for anyone, including us.
I don’t think America will be ok with the deaths of millions of Koreans, north and south, as a result of us firing the first shot.
It will take an extraordinary combination of military methods we have never seen before for the civilian death toll to be kept relatively low.
“It will take an extraordinary combination of military methods we have never seen before for the civilian death toll to be kept relatively low.”
Get your popcorn ready.
Sad thing is, it doesn’t get better from here.
It will have to be done.
It is true, most scenario’s do not go well for anyone within 50 miles of the border.
NorK artillery really is the problem. Missiles are significantly more easily dealt with.
However, while no battle or war goes as planned (in reality chaotic), there are a couple of non-nuclear tools we could use, which I believe could be successful in neutralizing the several thousand artillery pieces and rapid fire rocket launchers. It would also absolutely require a preemptive lightning quick action.
It would necessarily need to be highly coordinated, overwhelmingly redundant (overlapping), and use both very substantial ordinance designed for depth, as well as some very large volume oxygen removing ordinance. It would be quite expensive, but it would likely be quite decisive. This being said however, we have not ever done something quite like the scale required here. However, we are capable.
There is another option which really would work, but in this day and age, would be hard to justify preemptively.
Recall, the Soviets had so many tanks in East Germany, it was determined the only way to keep the communist from an annihilating westward “blitzkrieg”, was the knowledge we had low yield nuclear artillery, which was more than capable of removing the threat. So the moral of the story is, we could use the coordinated low yield nuclear option. Today, we can accomplish the same outcome with vastly more accurate and high speed airborne delivery systems. This would work decisively. However, even though this option could save up to millions of lives, left wing socialist organizations (like China, Russia, UN, France, Vatican, etc...), would likely go total uncontrollably ape insane!
The only other option would not need to be so coordinated, and it would definitely vaporize biology and remove all oxygen quite efficiently. In this scenario, people would find it kind of hard to work in temperatures hotter than the surface of the sun. The only problem here would be the jet stream would take radiation east toward Japan. Although there is another weapon in our arsenal which would not.
Whatever we decide, should be overwhelming to whatever level of threat exist when possible, period. This is basic ROTC or OCS doctrine stuff.
When Trump says we are capable, we are! The question is how decisive are we willing to be? If the General officers in charge are not on the same page, or acting in response to politics, we are in trouble.