U.S. Navy
James Holmes, War Is Boring: The U.S. Navy Can’t Fight North Korea Alone
A war would be painful and take place on the ground.
How can the U.S. Navy destroy North Korea should Washington give the word? It can’t. Or at least it stands little chance of doing so by its lonesome barring improbable circumstances. What the Navy can do is contribute to a joint or multinational campaign that destroys the northern regime or its armed forces. But even that would involve perils, hardships and steep costs.
It bears noting at the outset that destroy is a loaded term, connoting wholesale slaughter of a foe. It need not be so. For martial sage Carl von Clausewitz, destroying an opposing force means incapacitating it as a fighting force. “The fighting forces must be destroyed,” insists Clausewitz; “that is, they must be put in such a condition that they can no longer carry on the fight.” Disabling a hostile regime so it cannot resist our demands would likewise qualify.
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WNU Editor: A war on the Korean peninsula will be primarily a ground conflict .... the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force will primarily be assisting forces on the ground, and attacking North Korean positions behind the lines. But if nuclear weapons start to be used .... now that is a completely different conflict.
2 comments:
Everybody knows the US is trying to goad the Norks into attacking first. This will keep China out of the fight and enable the US to exterminate rocket boy. Look for small scale incursions by the US along the border probing for a response. Yes rocket boy will use nukes if he is in a corner and knows he is doomed. That's why his suspected location will receive the first 100 tomahawks in any shooting war.
No war can be won without boots on the ground.
There are many examples of this and considering that NK learnt alot about how US conducts its wars, they have build elaborate underground structures capable of sustaining their army for years. The question is, what will NK do to strike at US, we are not talking about sand monkeys only capable of flying planes into buildings, no this is a nuclear nation with one of the largest standing armies in the world with a huge population that see's their leader as a god. What lengths have people gone to for their gods? US is in for a surprise if they think they can win a war with NK, they are lucky that in 1950's certain parties wanted to stay with the original agreement made after WW2!
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