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A Sneak Peek at America’s War Plans for North Korea
Foreign Policy ^
| September 7, 2017
| Chetan Peddada
Posted on 08/09/2018 10:00:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I left there the last time 32 years ago yet I seem to know more about the current situation than Captain Peddada does. For instance, how are the North Koreans going to kill thousands of American service-members and their families on the DMZ and in Seoul when they all live in Camp Humpheys south of Seoul? Sounds like junior intelligence officers now do the work I did as a private or specialist.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, consider the source. Foreign Policy is the neoconartist’s bullhorn of choice, and has blatted out pompous nonsense for decades now. I had a subscription back in the 1980s. I should have spent the money on beer and TexMex food.
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posted on
08/09/2018 10:08:13 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(If the Sloth were a Honeybadger he'd set some Eagles on the Weasels.)
To: Psalm 144
The author is a member, which kind of mystifies me as I don’t remember seeing many junior officers/junior executives at meetings. Maybe the Indian descent is the key? I’m not sure.
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posted on
08/09/2018 10:11:29 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Weve never been closer to a conventional North Korean attack on South Korea”
Seems like an odd comment so close to 25 JUN, the 68th anniversary of the sneak attack that kicked off Korean War. This guy was an intel officer?!?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
(rolls eyes)
No fuel for their antiquated tanks and aircraft that can’t fly for lack of spares, fuel and trained pilots.
And this was when I was on the DMZ back in 76-77.
Could the PDRK make a horrible mess and kill people?
Yes.
Would they ‘win’ I doubt it very much.
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posted on
08/09/2018 10:30:21 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So why is this being put out ? Disinformation?
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posted on
08/09/2018 10:30:27 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Dr. Pritchett
A former intel officer who belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations, not some guy who works at a hardware store or manages a McDonalds. A lot of my big bosses back then were CFR members but they were flag officers or SES.
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posted on
08/09/2018 10:35:04 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
‘As the generals fill an auditorium-sized sand-table battlefield ...’
Sand table?
Makes me sad to think they are stuck in the 20th Century.
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posted on
08/09/2018 11:03:12 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
To: ASOC; 2ndDivisionVet
God bless you both for serving. I bet there were times [entire decades] when you thought the US voters were going to throw it all away, all of the sacrifice.
But God carried us through to this moment.
A miracle.
FRegards ....
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posted on
08/09/2018 11:10:36 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
To: Arthur Wildfire! March; ASOC
Sounds like he was there for the tree trimming incident, whereas the assassination of President Park Chung Hee happened when I was getting short the first time.
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posted on
08/09/2018 11:13:39 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Chetan Peddada: insurance salesman for Liberty Mutual. Served a hitch in the Army years ago. Excuse me while I disregard this shavetails masturbatory fantasies of Armageddon..
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author left out the part where America furnishes strait jackets for everyone in North Korea.
To: Jack Hammer
Or a cheeseburger. If a GI had a box of simple hamburgers he could perform a Sergeant York.
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posted on
08/10/2018 12:16:25 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Love cheeseburgers. I was thinking more of the onion rings. The guy could burp himself to death.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The author is not being entirely honest. The North, relative to the South, lacks eyes, accuracy, mobility (speed), concealment and many other abilities needed for survivability and wouldn’t have a chance to take anything substantial. It would be a monstrous amount of loose fire, not hitting much, which would be shut down rather quickly, priorities silenced first.
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posted on
08/10/2018 5:04:20 AM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yep - I left in '86 (about the same period as you) and remember Gen Livsey coming on AFRTS and taunting the Norks to "Come on down....we're ready for you..."
I would look at the calendar and silently say, "Stay on up for a couple more months..."
Was there when the Challenger blew up.
Was in AF at Osan and it was a fairly short bus ride to "The Hump"...
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posted on
08/10/2018 5:16:26 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
North Korean provocations and U.S. escalation has prompted the North to launch a last-ditch effort to seize the whole peninsula. Yeah, all eeevil America's fault...
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posted on
08/10/2018 8:05:48 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What could provoke North Korea to start such a conflict? Kim Jong Un may eventually believe that he has no choice, given his countrys chronic humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 41 percent of the population undernourished...Yeah, like fatboy Li'l Kim really cares about his peasants.
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posted on
08/10/2018 8:08:25 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
CFR- aren’t they no borders one worlders who think that when they take over they will be the elite in charge?
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posted on
08/10/2018 8:10:43 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: trebb
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