As a practical matter, I don’t think the US would come to the aid of SK. Sad, but true.
It’s good that the Army today is much better trained than when Truman sent me to Korea where we were like lambs led to slaughter, according to the Marines.
Hey Mr. Kim I know you’ve just invaded Seoul but can we postpone this war thing for 3 months??
Maybe Obama will be the next President to use nukes?
My oldest boy will be in the army in August. I hope Lil Kim calms down by then.
I worry that Obama would demand a war “by the book”. A war like Vietnam was. The CinC would mandate that wholesale killing of NorKs with ultra-modern techniques would be against the rules. I’m serious.
We need an army that can fight both insurgencies and large scale warfare at a moments notice, at the same time. The fact that it would take 90 days to retool is not a good sign, especially given the fact that Iran, Russia, and China represent much more dangerous (and better equipped/trained) conventional threats than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And, they have nuclear weapons too.
It took us 180 days to position a half-million troops and materiel for Desert Storm. Not going to be much left after 180 days.
Just F*%#ing great , a senior US General telling the enemy precisely how much of a reaction time he has before we can respond......
These people are on the bus to crazyland
Has south Korea known for years their their neighbor is an AH that could cause them trouble? If so, why have they not prepared for this themselves?
By the time 0booooomb0shiite hemmed & hawed his way to some semblance of coherent response, S Korea would be pulverized into submision. Secondly, some 40-45,000 U.S. troops would be dead or captured as POW’s as a result of Zero’s waffling & hesistancy & unwillingness to mount a massive retaliation with the first shot fired from N Korea. Thirdly, because Zero is basically anti-American & anti-military, the captured Americans would likely never be returned and he could care less.
And so are we. We're cutting or I should say gutting, our conventional, Big War Big Opponent, capability, in favor of learning how to root out guys who couldn't even drive a camel, let alone a main battle tank.