I am retired military and I understood exactly what President Trump meant. All the people in my office understood what trump meant. All of them also understood that the exercises could be started right back.
What a bunch of maroons.
A training exercise of any scale and/or a deployment to anywhere is merely an order away. The planners have them pre-written. All that’s required is a few last minute modifications and a date/time added.
All militaries train. But you don’t conduct joint exercises aimed at a country with whom you’re at peace. That’s the message of Trump’s decision. That we no longer consider North Korea an enemy.
Clarification? That’s exactly what I thought he meant.
Hence the “war” in “war games” - so naturally that means large scale operations.
But I guess we have to “clarify” for the unhinged libs that try to twist everything Trump says.
Fact is if things go badly on KP, our troops are sitting ducks. No reason for them to be there.
I’ve heard on Fox from General Jack Keane that the next large scale military exercise isn’t scheduled until the spring of 2019. That’s almost a year away. Long before then we will know if Kim is on the path to denuke. If he’s not, the planning and those drills can be instantly started up. This was a throwaway promise.
If he is on the path to denuclearization and has verifiably begun the process I think everyone would be fine with us not having this large scale exercise. When I was in the Marine Corps, the big South Korean exercise was called Team Spirit and was in the spring. The smaller exercise I did there was called Bear Hunt and was conducted in November. I’m not sure if these are still the same drills, but even by November we should be able to see if this regime is serious and if Bear Hunt still exists, it can be re-started if they are not serious.
War is chaos, and we are the kings of chaos.
All the training in the world is worthless if you have a specific plan you have to follow to win anyway, because they NEVER end up going like you need them to.
The JMC and their counterparts in Korea up date in real time with every piece of intel that comes in. As long as we have enough translators to communicate clearly at about the company level those large scale war games can be safely shelved now IMHO.
Let’s be serious. If it came to an actual war the “joint effort” will be something like “Here we go...you guys stay out of the way and watch this!!!”
I guess I’m just warped since I completely understood that the only thing President Trump was considering stopping are the large scale maneuvers and long range simulated bombing missions.
Troops remain and they continue to do what they do when they are not fighting, train.
The pests in the press just want to make something out of nothing. Idiots and traitors.
Any veteran of a tour in Korea would know they were speaking of Team Spirit level exercises, which normally happen just once a year.
A large portion of large exercises are now done in simulators. Cheaper. Easily reset situations. Etc
Tom, er, Senator Tom Cotton seemed to say Pompeo would be working on the verify end if everything wasn’t spelt out in the treaty.