Posted on 12/27/2002 12:37:59 PM PST by RCW2001
Seoul, Dec. 27 (Yonhap) -- The United States would deploy some 690,000 troops to augment the 37,000-strong American military presence already here if war should break out on the peninsula, a Defense Ministry report showed Friday.
The augmented forces would comprise of Army divisions, carrier battle groups with highly-advanced fighters, tactical fighter wings, and marine expeditionary forces in Okinawa and on the U.S. mainland, according to the "1998-2002 Defense Policy." The ministry published the report instead of a white paper.
It's a result of Nuke guilt.
Ever since we won WW II our home grown commie's (CommiecRATs & their leftest press,)
have been telling our children how terrible we were to use the Nuke.
Sadly, each generation believes that bs more than the previous one.
Time for the nukes - Yes! Thanks to delusional bastard Bill Clinton -
- - North Korea already has theirs - at the ready!
"Clinton Bankrolled North Korea's Nuke Program"
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/17/80959
"Clinton Deal Gave N. Korea 100-Nuke-Per-Year Capacity"
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/19/114657
It would appear that men like you and I would have to re-volunteer to defend our republic ... I would
Sure, during the "cold war," we had two Corp in Germany.
VII Corp in the South, and V Corp in the North.
VII Corp was sent to Saudia for GW I. They were the Armor heavy force
which swept North into Iraq, and then East to flank the
Iraq Republican Guard Divisions, (The so called "hail Mary" manuver.)
Our guys kicked butt big time.
(Shortly after that the Soviet Union basically threw in the towel.
Guess they didn't like seeing what we had built up and planned for them.)
VII Corp was disbanded, and never returned to their bases in Germany.
V Corp will be going to kick butt this time.
That's why the Germans have been told they will have to guard the military bases in Germany.
IMO V Corp won't return to Germany either.
Seventy years of non-stop Liberalism plus worthless American/Western History education in the even more worthless (but prohibitively expensive) public schools and endless leftist hotbeds known as "Universities"!
We had this type of "trained" force before Clinton "refined" our military.
I would tend to agree with you. Serving in an all volunteer part of an all volunteer Army, I can't think of anyone I know who would want to share the proverbial foxhole with someone who didn't want to be there. (The draft was over well before I was born, however, so I can't comment personally on the performance of draftees.)
This isn't to say that most people couldn't fight if they put their minds to it. It's just that sacrifice and duty aren't trendy enough for most Gen-Xers. It's bad enough we have so many in for the wrong reasons. I can think of a few people that will be in for a sad, sad flight across the Pacific, should it come to that, thinking 'I just wanted to pay off my college loans!"
Thank God for immigration.
Freedom isn't free.
A lot of fathers will go in place of their sons.
Any able bodied man up to 45 should be able to go in place of their son.
One thing I can't begin to understand or abide is the concept of buying your way out(Civil war) or getting a college deferment (Vietnam).
What the hell is that all about?
No wonder there were protests against the draft in Vietnam.
No goddammned deferments.
If it takes a draft to keep us free, lets do it the right way this time.
Another poster mentioned artillery. The truth of the matter is the North Koreans have some 12,000-14,000 tubes (that's right, those numbers have three zeros) of artillery fixed in on South Korean and American positions. Some American outposts have 10 battalions worth of artillery targetted on them.
We're going to need to re-institute the draft, and big time. The Army barely has 8 combat divisions, and the Marine Corps 3. Anybody here who thinks we have enough forces to handle Iraq and North Korea both frankly don't know what the hell they are talking about.
A draft may not be desirable, but it may be INEVITABLE.
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