Comments on: NK Military Options Look Bleak

By: Roland

Roland — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:17:15 +0000

Just strenghten our missile defense system. Make it inpenetrable to any rougue nation multiple nuclear balistic missile attack. Also add GPS jammer systems to our existing missile shield to thwart any incomming enemy GPS guiding missiles. That will solve this problem.

By: Steve from UK

Steve from UK — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:03:37 +0000

WOW…Interesting reading.….
a insider says it all.….
read Ian Slater’s WW3 books — not the best but this is played out in them. It will happen — He is about to pop his clogs — not sure if his kin will succeed him.…he will do it.…
the rok/us cannot stop the numbers or reinforce…especially if China asserts itself too.
Interesting times we live in..
korea, Iran, hell why not throw in Taiwan and Georgia too..the west showed then it wont do anything.

By: a insider

a insider — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:18:14 +0000

In the last week ROK/US intel has noted a NK SOF
brigade moving south to positions which have been reguarded for 20 yrs as a first sign of a NK move accross the DMZ.This info has been spoken in wispers around DC for over a week now. We will know for sure there intent once there Mech Divisions relocate to there jump off point,Make no mastake they are moving.This is something we have gamed for 60 yrs,I was involved in several.However the situation in the middle east and our comitments in Iraq/ Afghanistan have only recently been gamed and the outcome of these (revisid) games has been hidden from even those amoung the JCOS.Over 65% of our deployable combat divisions are ether deployed or returning from or working up to deployment.Theses numbers do not reflect the extra 3 combat bragads Obama is sendind to Afghanistan.That means that if war was to break out in Korea,We would never be able to muster anything close to what would be needed to repel a NK move south.The ROK solders are tough and well trained,Ive spent 2 tours training them,However they would not be able to hold the first line and lose Soul in hours(whatever would be left of it after 50,000 arty shells leveled it within the first 2 hours)We have several lines of defence and would most likely egress under fire and try to organise a defensive line well south of Soul.The 2nd ID (whatever is still left in Korea at the time) Would have to wait out any substanional reinforcements for up to 90 days.There are alot of brass that think NK would open with bio/cem wepones and give POTUS the option to end the whole thing with 2 or 3 W88s.And there counting on it,just ask anyone involved in the war gaming.The only problem with this is Obama would NEVER ok a nuke strike for anything short of a nuke landing in DC or NY.So the point of this whole thing is were stretched to thin for another front and the games we should be gameing is total retreat and let the ROK fend for themselfs.Dont get me wrong,If it was up to me I would reinforce the 2ID with anything and everything,Complete the relocation of the DIV.HQ south of SOUL ASAP,move all pre position ships closer to KOREA,Deploy all BMD defences(Thaad,ABL,PAC2&3,and all Aiges ships equiped with BMDs)to the sea of Japan and start retraining troops for combined conventional operations(which has been lost because of the last 7 years of fighting insurgents)This is the Norths best chance to even have a chance to capture the entire country within 90 days.And they know it,They have the 4th largest army in the worls.granted there old and decrepit equipment wont hold up for long,but numbers have a quality of there own.7 million armed North Korens racing south,Around Soul with a goal of engaging and if not defeting US forces just getting them out of country would change the whole picture.Does anyone think Obama would commit over a half million US troops to liberate

By: Loki

Loki — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:04:47 +0000

Eh, I think they ought to have a massive cookout right on the DMZ. Have all our troops lock weps in the arms room. Then invite the North Korean troops over to have some chicken, potato salad, beans and beer. Give them some souveniers, like pictures of Tomahawk missles, F-22’s Abrams tanks and stuff like that. Offer any North Korean soldier who wants to defect free chicken and beer for a year. Pay them to join the South Korean army. Swell the numbers on our side of the border. X-box, Cellphones, Food and beer have lasting affects. Win there hearts and minds. Otherwise no matter which way you cut it, There shall be a blood bath if the North Korean Pres says hey guys those south Koreans have enough food for everyone in the country lets go get it. Everybody wants something for free.

By: HERD

HERD — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:58:04 +0000

Our President will most likely withdraw our troops. Then it will be up to the South Koreans.

Think they will win.

By: elgatoso

elgatoso — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:51:47 +0000

Nmwren: a draft is never going to happen.the moder army is to high tech for a draft.

By: NMWren

NMWren — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:38:19 +0000

We need to take out those missles before they launch. Our missle defense is untested and un reliable. And a draft is going to happen. A mojor war happens every sixty years and were due.

By: Nikoli

Nikoli — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:52:30 +0000

An Army played in Iraq and Afgahnistan, is a card played.

An Army at home, is an card in the hand.

No brainer.

Unless, of course, one has no brains.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:00:10 +0000

Well If everything going on in this world and the situations that we (meaning the U.S.)get ourselves in, and how stretched our military is, having troops do 5 or more tours of duty, don’t you think its time to start the draft, (oh thats a dirty word) so what! It’s time to either start a draft or make it law that everyone in this country needs to serve at least two years. We have so many people coming into this country to find a better life for themselves and there loved ones. You wanted to live in this country, remember freedom is not free. I may not make sense thats because I am a little irate about the whole military situation. Now is the time to do this instead of waiting for a war to break out.

By: William

William — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:11:38 +0000

As far as the missile threat goes, station one or two of our U.S. Navy, Aegis Crusier, Guided Balistic Missile Denfense Ships off the coast of Notrh Korea and that should take care of any their missile shoots.

By: SeaDawg

SeaDawg — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:46:42 +0000

Isn’t it nice to live in a country where freedom of speech allows idiots to slam our wonderful president without regard to actual facts? For the most part, President Obama is still mopping up from the previous administration. Quite the enormous job considering Bush pretty much destroyed foreign policy over an eight-year period. You can bet Mr. Obama will take appropriate actions, if necessary, to bring the apparently whacked-out NK leader back to reality.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:36:29 +0000

Why have we not used Aegis cruisers to shoot down the NK missile tests as they are in the boost phase? I bet this puts some money back in the ABL program… 1 747 so equipped would make all this a moot point. If only we had not cut, cut, cut our forces for the past 20 years. We never learn from history, do we?

By: Soldier1

Soldier1 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:37:27 +0000

I would love to fight NK. I think the outcome would make many shut up, especially the comunist fools.I agree with most comments especially the one where the Pres. would not give the ok to attack.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:09:51 +0000

It’s all about timing. If we preempt then we are the bad guys. My belief is Obama would never strike first, I seriously doubt he will even react quickly. Even if we preempt we don’t have the depth to strike every target at once. That’s without adding the complexity of chemical weapons, and the fear and panic that would spread in a large metropolitan area with unprotected civilians. It doesn’t take many chemical warheads to create panic even in a trained military unit.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:00:57 +0000

you are right — but if war appears imminent I wonder what Obama’s willingness to authorize a first-strike to protect Seoul (as much as possible). Also, it seems that a large part of NKs forces are in underground facilities. So the question is, do we know where they are and can our bunker-busters hit them before they can come up to fight? This is probably a very complex scenario that involves more than just dropping a whole bunch of bombs on their artillery before they can destroy Seoul unfortunately. North Korea appears to be very well prepared, and after doing some reading, they have something like 7 million people in reserve to fight..pretty much their entire population age 14–60, including unmarried women, is at the very least a reserve soldier.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:52:08 +0000

Very true we could, and will take them out. But how many rounds do they fire before they are destroyed 2, 5, 10 times10,000? What would happen if 50 thousand artillery rounds landed in New York in 30 minutes? I doubt Obama would authorize a first strike in any case. We have 20 B-2 which can carry 80 bombs each; flight time from Whiteman AFB to Korea is 20 hours. You can fire a lot of rounds in that time. I’m not saying we won’t prevail we would, but not in time to save Seoul. That’s if Obama decides to act at all.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:33:56 +0000

Bob, how concentrated are those artillery pieces? I’m willing to be our military planners have a first-strike mapped out that would destroy most of it, and our air force would have a field day with the rest.

I don’t know how well their artillery is protected, but a fleet of B-2s and F-22s loaded with SDBs could potentially destroy thousands of artillery pieces in just the first few minutes of a well planned strike.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:21:59 +0000

There is plenty of food and fuel 35 miles south of the DMZ in Seoul. The north has 10,000 artillery pieces within range of the South Korean capital and thousands of short range missiles with chemical warheads. The 10 million civilians who live in and around Seoul will panic and overwhelm the South Korean military’s ability to respond. Seoul and the South Korean economy will be destroyed before Obama finishes apologizing for getting the North Koreans pissed off. We will be lucky to be able to withdraw our troops south before they can be over run.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:33:44 +0000

Chris — I don’t think that is true. If it were the case, Obama and co. would have wiped out all BMD with the new defense budget, but it seems to me that the administration is giving it a chance to prove its viability.

Patriot — there is nothing said here that our enemies don’t already know.

By: VAPOR_ONE_NINE

VAPOR_ONE_NINE — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:58:26 +0000

The last time I checked the Navy was still intact in the Pacific. They could level NK in about a day.