[2ndDivisionVet]

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.

[Psalm 144]

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.

[ASOC]

(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.

[Nifster]

So why is this being put out ? Disinformation?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘As the generals fill an auditorium-sized sand-table battlefield ...’

Sand table?

Makes me sad to think they are stuck in the 20th Century.

[hinckley buzzard]

Chetan Peddada: insurance salesman for Liberty Mutual. Served a hitch in the Army years ago. Excuse me while I disregard this shavetail’s masturbatory fantasies of Armageddon..

[Jack Hammer]

The author left out the part where America furnishes strait jackets for everyone in North Korea.

[familyop]

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.

[trebb]

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"...

[JimRed]

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...

[JimRed]

What could provoke North Korea to start such a conflict? Kim Jong Un may eventually believe that he has no choice, given his country’s chronic humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 41 percent of the population undernourished...

Yeah, like fatboy Li'l Kim really cares about his peasants.

[GenXteacher]

The last plan worked pretty good until the Chicoms showed up.

[The Great RJ]

Consider how the US media would report this war. Immediately the spittle spewing reporters on CNN will blame the war on Trump and wax eloquent on how Obama’s appeasement kept us out of war. Even as the flag draped coffins of US service personnel arrive in the US there will be calls for Trump’s impeachment and cutting off funds for “Trump’s war”. The leftists will replay the anti war riots of the 1960s, attempt to block US war material from going to the front and try to end the bombing campaign with staged photos of women and children being killed by US actions. The carnage on Seoul will be glossed over and blamed solely on Trump. Even if Kim Jong-un succeeded in lobbing one or more nukes at Hawaii or the US mainland the blame Trump vitriol would continue.