Just as an armchair general, if there is a first strike by the US to take out missile sites, I just don’t understand why we wouldn’t have flights lined up on the deck with afterburners on destroying the artillery batteries. They pop up, targeted by satellite and boom, gone by loitering aircraft/drones with Hellfires.
I think the key is overwhelming suppressive firepower. That will encourage gun crews to desert. Even the NK officers might consider whether shooting a few barrages is worth assured death.
Pre-emptive strike utilizing stealth B2s taking out communications, radar, and power with thermobaric bombs while the NORKs are sleeping.
” I just don’t understand why we wouldn’t have flights lined up on the deck with afterburners on destroying the artillery batteries. They pop up,”
The problem is that when ‘they pop up’ they are putting at least one round of artillery into one of the most densely populated cities in the world. And there are hundreds of thousands of them. So even if they aren’t super accurate the civilian casualties would be high. FAR too high for us to want to start the shooting.
Pre-emptive strike utilizing stealth B2s taking out communications, radar, and power dropping thermobaric bombs while the NORKs are sleeping.