with NKorea starts, what scenario do you see? I give 'em 3 days.
We are still fighting in both of them so 15+ years. Probably a good starting point for a North Korea conflict.bigtruckguy3500 said:
How long did it take us to beat Iraq and Afghanistan?
But we do have 40,000 troops in South Korea, another 50,000 in Japan, and the entire 7th Fleet already forward deployed in the area. Iraq, we had nothing in the area and had to start from scratch. We will still need several hundred thousand more troops, but I don't think it would be a 6 month build up from the time the President says to go in before we are able to go in.74OA said:
.....and it took us six months to mobilize, transport and stage enough forces just to expel Iraq from Kuwait the first time around. NK is not going to sit on its hands and watch an invasion buildup happen. It will set Seoul on fire and launch spoiler missile and special forces attacks throughout the length of South Korea and beyond.
People also forget that Desert Shield/Desert Storm was launched while the US military was at the peak of its Cold War size and readiness and was fought on open terrain that was incredibly favorable to our strengths--mechanized warfare and airpower. DoD is now a shadow of that massive force and NK's mountainous terrain does not play to our strengths at all.
South Korea will sit back and not strike back ? Or the Us ? Dream on !74OA said:
.....and it took us six months to mobilize, transport and stage enough forces just to expel Iraq from Kuwait the first time around. NK is not going to sit on its hands and watch an invasion buildup happen. It will set Seoul on fire and launch spoiler missile and special forces attacks throughout the length of South Korea and beyond.
People also forget that Desert Shield/Desert Storm was launched while the US military was at the peak of its Cold War size and readiness and was fought on open terrain that was incredibly favorable to our strengths--mechanized warfare and airpower. DoD is now a shadow of that massive force (e.g. USAF down to 55 fighter squadrons from 134) and NK's mountainous terrain does not play to our strengths at all.
What an odd conclusion to draw from my post.BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:South Korea will sit back and not strike back ? Or the Us ? Dream on !74OA said:
.....and it took us six months to mobilize, transport and stage enough forces just to expel Iraq from Kuwait the first time around. NK is not going to sit on its hands and watch an invasion buildup happen. It will set Seoul on fire and launch spoiler missile and special forces attacks throughout the length of South Korea and beyond.
People also forget that Desert Shield/Desert Storm was launched while the US military was at the peak of its Cold War size and readiness and was fought on open terrain that was incredibly favorable to our strengths--mechanized warfare and airpower. DoD is now a shadow of that massive force (e.g. USAF down to 55 fighter squadrons from 134) and NK's mountainous terrain does not play to our strengths at all.
Yeah.....not what's he's saying. He's saying that it will be neither quick, nor easy, because we aren't what we used to be.BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:South Korea will sit back and not strike back ? Or the Us ? Dream on !74OA said:
.....and it took us six months to mobilize, transport and stage enough forces just to expel Iraq from Kuwait the first time around. NK is not going to sit on its hands and watch an invasion buildup happen. It will set Seoul on fire and launch spoiler missile and special forces attacks throughout the length of South Korea and beyond.
People also forget that Desert Shield/Desert Storm was launched while the US military was at the peak of its Cold War size and readiness and was fought on open terrain that was incredibly favorable to our strengths--mechanized warfare and airpower. DoD is now a shadow of that massive force (e.g. USAF down to 55 fighter squadrons from 134) and NK's mountainous terrain does not play to our strengths at all.