Post #373,271
4/2/13 12:33:26 PM
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not really, worse scenario
http://www.iiss.org/...ance-on-the-kore/
Nonetheless, despite shortages of spare parts, fuel and training time, North KoreaÂs conventional capabilities pose a significant threat to allied forces and South KoreaÂs population. For example, North KoreaÂs artillery capability does not require sophisticated tactics nor modes of operation to pose a threat to Seoul. In any conflict, North Korean artillery, firing from fortified positions near the DMZ, could initially deliver a heavy bombardment on the South Korean capital. Allied counter-battery fire and air strikes would eventually reduce North KoreaÂs artillery capability, but not before significant damage and high casualties had been inflicted on Seoul. Similarly, the North Korean air force could launch surprise attacks against military and civilian targets throughout South Korea before allied air superiority was established. The potential delivery of chemical or biological weapons by artillery, short-range missiles and aerial bombs is an additional threat  especially to unprotected civilians.
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Post #373,272
4/2/13 12:39:36 PM
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Pearl Harbor, Mk II
At what point does a preemptive attack start seeming like a good idea?
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Post #373,273
4/2/13 4:20:50 PM
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for them or us?
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Post #373,290
4/2/13 8:57:29 PM
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Never?
Once it's taken, any chance of moral superiority is forfeit. Look at the quagmire Iraq turned into.
-Mike
@MikeVitale42
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
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Post #373,292
4/2/13 9:19:11 PM
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I meant them
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Post #373,295
4/2/13 9:32:26 PM
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Yep...
Look at the quagmire WWII turned into for the Japanese and Germany.
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Post #373,300
4/3/13 6:06:40 AM
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Re: Yep...
When, since the industrial revolution kicked in, has a country started a war and won? The U.S. in Grenada was more of a mugging than a war. Was Iraq (either time) a win? Doesn't look like it to me. Germany, second time around did better than Iraq though, and they didn't exactly win either.
Aggressors don't seem to win big anymore. I could be wrong...
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Post #373,299
4/3/13 1:36:14 AM
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Marlowe? That you?
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Post #373,313
4/3/13 10:04:35 AM
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:-) !!!
Except he would take the other side of it.
Alex
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Post #373,316
4/3/13 11:24:52 AM
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I suspect his embarassment
is what's keeping him away from this place.
I for one would mock him mercilessly for his certainty in the bullshit ice cream he ate with a big fat smile on his face.
Jingoistic asshole that he was.
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Post #373,372
4/3/13 6:08:49 PM
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Well of course he was, to you
Your just some damn furriner.
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