Posted on 08/09/2017 3:44:21 PM PDT by ckinv368
Something to keep in mind, the Korean War never ended. We are still at war so the President does not need to get Congress approval.
My fear is we no longer have patriots at the top level of our Government or the Military. The plans for an attack will be leaked as soon as they are made.
The article is very well written and informative. It was posted in its entirety. I’ve looked at the blog, and it is replete with other articles of similar quality. Welcome to FR, ckinv368, which as you can see has its share of the underinformed over-opinionated.
This effort will require more than cruise missiles and stern statements, and will bear the hallmarks of a major military operation, with hundreds of bombs and missiles, dozens of aircraft and ships, and the full military might of the United States.
to: "This effort will require more than cruise missiles and stern statements, and will bear the hallmarks of a major military operation, with many thousands of bombs and missiles, over a thousand aircraft, many ships... essentially all military might the United States can apply, plus all of the considerable capabilities of the South Koreans, and everything the Japanese can add, as well."
It would not take all that to knock out North Korea's nuclear capability, but it WILL take all that to rapidly quash a determined North Korean attack on Seoul.
Somethings got to give
You can only keep keep forces on hair trigger alert so long
Quit it DUMBASSES How did we deal with this in the 50s and 60s during the COLD WAR with Russia? he he They had way more sophisticated ICBMs than the NORKS? At one point we had bombers in the air 24/7 armed with Nuclear weapons that flew over the North Pole and back. Most here do not remember that.
Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads. During this period, the US considered the defense of the US as part of reducing the overall damage inflicted in a full nuclear exchange. As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command (now called North American Aerospace Defense Command).
By the early 1950s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of an operational ABM system. Work started on a short-range, high-speed counterpart known as Sprint to provide defense for the ABM sites themselves. By the mid-1960s, both systems showed enough promise to start development of base selection for a limited ABM system dubbed Sentinel. In 1967, the US announced that Sentinel itself would be scaled down to the smaller and less expensive Safeguard. Soviet doctrine called for development of its own ABM system and return to strategic parity with the US. This was achieved with the operational deployment of the A-35 ABM system and its successors, which remain operational to this day. http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/politics/pentagon-missile-test-north-korea-iran/index.html
Too late I would say.
If they can put one in a missile they can put one in a torpedo and covertly launch them in major ports.
Activate Star Wars.
Use Trident submarines.
Unload. Turn N Korea, china and the Muslim world into sheets of glass . No more problems.
It’s what I would do.
Welcome to FR.
Sic `em boy.
This is probably not going to end well.
Shocking
Maybe Kim is really stupid. After all, Hitler sent the German army into Russia without winter clothing. But, my guess is that Kim wants Lockheed Martin in San Jose.
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