take out all the power generating plants and substations and make the REALLY live in the dark for a few years...I would also use every Buff in the inventory. Go for broke.
Fuel air vapor, bunker busters and other goodies on air fields, artillery, nuke facilities, launch pads...
Would that also be enough to prevent a catastrophic counter-attack against Seoul? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Nope. South Korea would have to invade before the last bomb is dropped. Lightning move.
take out all the power generating plants and substations and make the REALLY live in the dark for a few years...“And these are only the missiles,” said Roehrig. “North Korea also has thousands of long-range artillery pieces and multiple rocket launcher systems that could also reach Seoul.”
With chemical or biological weapons. This is a problem.
The problem here is that we have to figure what his generals have to lose. People act in their own self interest. Kim is not the wild card. The NORK military leadership is the wildcard.
Wait a minute! Supposedly Trump promised China a better trade deal if they did the heavy lifting.
Fortunately Mad Dog understands war.
North Koreans are trained to fight brutally against their enemies and to fight dirty with terrorist bombings, suicide squads etc. etc....
I would suggest based on their actions and Korean War stories I’ve read they could make IS look like the “JV team”.
Urchin appears to have the same mindset.
This will be a very expensive conflict in terms of human life.
Assuming Russia and China don't supply NK this conflict will take time and a lot of casualties. NK territory is not favorable to the type of warfare the US likes to fight. We like clear targets where we can bring massive firepower to bear.
We don't like grueling infantry type combat which is what this will become. We didn't like it in WWII or the Korean War.
The NK people have been conditioned over 60+ yrs to hate SK and the US. That's gonna be difficult to overcome. Think Japan in WWII.
I have no doubt our military can win the combat phase of this...my question is can our politics handle this?
I think we all know the dims and rinos will jump all over Trump and call for impeachment at the first problem if we fight.
Dims threatened to impeach Bush 41 if Desert Storm didn't go well. NK, if they're smart, will play the liberal media against our efforts.
This won't be a slam bam thank you ma'am event. It's gonna take time and resolve.
I don’t remember who the army general in charge of Korea was at the time, but in about 1974 Gerald Ford fired him for making a comment to a reporter that “a land war in Korea will not last three days”. I doubt if the estimates have changed much since then.
Here’s the real plan:
1) China makes it clear to military leaders of NK that the looney Kim regime must go.
2) They arrange a tragic accident or thousand.
3) They rearrange the deck chairs of whatever is left in a pattern China likes.
4) New regime is slightly less troublesome than old regime, for a while.
Anything will be risky. I suspect that the NORKs have chemical weapons and if you don't take out all of their delivery systems, including artillery, in the first wave, then a gas attack on Seoul is likely.
Use thousands of those “Elizabeth Warren” missiles like we just used in Syria.
Cut the power (not much effort to put all their lights out)
South Koreans pour into the tunnels to secure them. Several hundred miles of them. Big job.
Chinese pour into Pyongyang to remove the leadership and psychologically create the victory.
Make sure nothing that leaves the Earth in NK lives very long.
We’re not going to take down the NORKS, China will do it for us. As the Russians are in Syria, China realizes that if they do not do something about Baby Kim, there is a distinct possibility that any regime change NOT under their control could lead to a unified peninsula.
Why do the uninformed speculate?
I don’t have any faith an air force can win a war.
It can make it possible for ground forces to win a war, but an air force can’t win a war by itself. At least not without resorting to nukes.
And North Korea has some of the deepest, most sophisticated bunkers in the world, literally nuke proof.
Not to mention huge amounts of fortified artillery in range of Seoul.
At best, this will be messy.
My fondest hope is that it will be messy for the People’s Liberation Army, not for the US and South Korean armed forces.
Why should we be the ones to do it? He’s in China’s backyard and just across the way from Japan and a dozen other countries. US troops shouldn’t have to put their lives on the line for every single world cause.
Or then we might just buy off China and let them handle it.