Who says we'd need to invade?Iceberg wrote:Where's Bush going to get the manpower and firepower from? The remaining half of the army that's not in Iraq and Afghanistan is spread out all over the world, and half of the Navy, including 2/3 of the carrier fleet, is in port being overhauld, including USS Eisenhower, which is undergoing a three-year RCOH.
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Stormbringer
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South KoreaIceberg wrote: Where's Bush going to get the manpower and firepower from?
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"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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If shooting starts between the US and North Korea there would be no ground war without the full support of the ROK, which has an active army nearly the size of the US's and much larger reserves. And there are ample land bases for the USAF, which is plently of free resources, to fight from.Iceberg wrote: Where's Bush going to get the manpower and firepower from? The remaining half of the army that's not in Iraq and Afghanistan is spread out all over the world, and half of the Navy, including 2/3 of the carrier fleet, is in port being overhauld, including USS Eisenhower, which is undergoing a three-year RCOH.
However it more likely the whlle country will collapse in the next year then that we will see a shooting war.
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— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956