Posted on 09/23/2018 2:39:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Senate Armed Services Committee, right as the U.S. negotiates the removal of nuclear missiles from North Korea, is set to consider a new Army general to head U.S. forces on the Korean Peninsula.
Gen. Robert “Abe” Abrams will testify in a committee hearing Tuesday on his nomination to command U.S. Forces Korea and two other key military commands in South Korea.
The Army general would take charge of 28,500 troops stationed in the South after a year of rollercoaster relations, and as President Trump considers a second summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the regime’s nuclear weapons arsenal.
“Now, as we've drawn down out of Iraq and Afghanistan, world events in other regions have created an environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, and dangerous. It's unpredictable and requires our Army to be prepared and ready at all times,” Abrams said in an article put out by the Army in May, echoing U.S. Korea forces’ “ready to fight tonight” motto....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The writer must have missed that kerfuffle in the early fifties.
His grandfather probably hid in Newfoundland to keep out of it.
Standing in the footsteps of dad Creighton Abrams. Big shoes to fill.
Maybe. The DPRK now has the capacity to destroy America’s largest cities. It has a full strategic deterrent. Maybe we just accept their regime and say that’ll work. Certainly they aren’t taking any steps to disarm.
Salient democRAT question: When and where did you molest Blasey Ford in 1987?
The kerfuffle was in the fifties was less consequential because Kim Il Song and even China didn’t pose a direct threat to the United States at the time. While a lot of people fought and died, the only existential urgency was in keeping the Soviets from openly intervening - b/c that ran the risk to escalating to World War. Today, the North can hit the White House with an ICBM and China is a peer competitor. The stakes today are a little higher than just Doug MacArthur’s ego.
However one measures today's status against history, it sounds like this general has a heads-up attitude:
It's unpredictable and requires our Army to be prepared and ready at all times,” Abrams said...
What more could we ask for of our armed forces?
I served as the Stenographer and SJS Admin NCO for Gen Wickham and Senewald (UNC CFC USFK EUSA) 14 months in 81-82.
That’s when I was at the G-2 DTOC Support Element at 2nd Division watching two North Korean Corps. A few years earlier I had been the G-2 Hotline Operator writing the DMZ Report at I Corps in the bunker.
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