Posted on 08/10/2017 11:24:24 AM PDT by TBP
The first step should begin immediately, well in advance and without firing a shot. All military family members, all Department of Defense civilian employees and all nonessential contractors should be evacuated from South Korea. Want to get North Korea’s attention? That single act would serve as a graver warning of our readiness than any amount of sanctions or saber-rattling.
Initially, we’d launch a surprise air and naval campaign, with ground forces deployed only in defense of South Korea. Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile-development facilities and arsenals wouldn’t be in the initial target set. First, we’d have to overwhelm and destroy North Korea’s air defenses, while simultaneously degrading Pyongyang’s military command, control and communications to cripple any response.
Then, rapidly, we’d go for the missile and nuke infrastructure. And here’s where we’d have to show our will to win. Wrecking bunkered sites isn’t enough. Research, development and production facilities can be rebuilt.
We’d need to strike, without warning, the dormitory facilities and housing areas for the scientists, designers, technicians, skilled workers and military cadres involved in North Korea’s nuclear-weapons and missile programs. If we’re unwilling to do that, we’d merely be buying ourselves a minor delay at extravagant cost.
And then we need to be prepared to counter any North Korean conventional blows against South Korea.
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First I’d heard any speculation of Wake Island being used as a “staging area” for US Aircraft. Saipan, yes. But Wake?
His recommendations are precisely correct and echo my own.
I saw no mention of the hundreds+ of artillary pieces they supposedly have aimed at Seoul and ready to fire.
A dozen B-1Bs carrying 50+ CBU-87 per sortie, 3 sorties per day will solve the artillery problem.
They will take out the vast majority in 24hrs.
Besides, the CORE OBJECTIVE here is to protect US existential interests.
Not Seoul. Seoul and Tokyo are high priority, but secondary concerns.
By yielding to SKorean fear of the north for 60 years we have allowed a direct threat to the US mainland to emerge.
advocating the murder of millions is insane
Better their millions than our millions.
Have you forgotten the principal lesson of WWII? If you do not kill them, they will kill you and yours.
Understood. But they don’t have anything other than a one shot chance at a best scenario result. All the shell and rocket artillery will be raining down until it is stopped or preempted to begin with. If it is not preempted, the losses will be massive but like you said, they lulled themselves into the idea a peaceful reunification could be attained propagated by the communist left. It will get to a never again scenario once the dust settles no matter which artillery termination scenario results.
Forget about a war and the death of millions. Put a decent reward on his head and someone within North Korea will eliminate the little dictator. We can only hope that the next leader is more willing to accept peace and work towards improving the living conditions of North Koreans as a whole.
Kill them all and let god sort it out.
He was not talking about the military leaving - only the families of the military and non-military personnel. Seems reasonable to me as a first step. I still think we need to show them we can shoot down their missiles. Every time they launch a missile - we shoot it down.
So you’re ok with Seoul being obliterated by artillery, and the hundreds of thousands of dead South Koreans that will be the inevitable result?
Any decent strike plan will include the destruction of NK artillery on the DMZ. The problem with that is we don’t know where every single gun position is. There are no easy answers here. Many of the good guys will die to include civilians no matter what we do.
Isn't the DMZ kind of an impediment to the South Korean Army marching anywhere? It's wide. It's riddled with land mines. Razor wire topped fences and guard shacks completely block the north from the south. North Koreans who want to go to South Korea have to escape through China.
This Peters clown hates President Trump and endorsed the Hildebeast. Eff him.
Exactly! Ever since he let the cat outta the bag, it appear Fox doesn’t have him on as much. In fact, I haven’t seen him lately on air!
Ralph Peters retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, NOT as a general.
My mistake. Thanks for the correction.
North Korea is a small country and we have enough nukes to turn the entire place into a wasteland.
Nobody is advocating murder. Are we willing to do whatever it takes to free the world from the threat of North Koran nukes, or is Trump just bluffing and blustering like his predecessor?
I quit reading when I saw who the author was
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