North Korea

[Boats]

A report I just read - thought it may be of interest?

Pace: N. Korea conflict would require ?brute force?

By Foster Klug
Associated Press


The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday that if war broke out with North Korea, American fighters would have to rely on ?more brute force? because much of their high-tech bombing equipment is tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan.

?You need precision intelligence to drop precision munitions,? said Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ?And a lot of our precision intelligence assets are currently being used in the Gulf region.?


That, he said, would mean ?more brute force, wherever we might have to go next, than it would be if we weren?t already involved in the war we have going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.?

Diplomats from the United States and other nations currently are confronting North Korea over its Oct. 9 nuclear test. Last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice traveled to Asia to rally support for enforcement of recently passed U.N. sanctions meant to punish the North for the test. North Korea has called the U.N. actions a declaration of war, and speculation has mounted that another test could come.

Pace told reporters that even with 200,000 military people in the Gulf region, the United States still has ?2 million folks who can start protecting this nation anywhere else we need them to ? tomorrow, if we need them to.?

A potential war with North Korea or another country ?would not be as clean as we would like it to be. But it would certainly be sure. And the outcome would not be in doubt,? he said. ?None of our potential enemies should miscalculate the capacity of this nation to generate overwhelming combat power, tomorrow, to defend our national interests.?

Pace said such a war would look more like World War II or the Korean War, with ?more collateral damage? than the precision bombing the United States conducted on Baghdad during the 2003 invasion.

?That?s not predictive,? Pace said. ?I?m just saying that, on a scale, you?re going to have to use more brute force to get the job done.?

Pace also said North Korea?s armed forces appeared ?stable, meaning they haven?t raised or lowered any particular parts of their readiness to cause any kind of alarm.?

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The pudgy little dog-eating penguin is truly an enigma, surrounded by a paradox, and wrapped in confusion. While he did make good on his boast to pop a nuke, one has to wonder if the test was 100% or even 75% effective, and what did they learn? Seems to me that if the nuke test had been more of an unqualified success, the leaks to the western world would be more like a torrent; what we did learn was more speculation than hard data.

Militarily, if the north attacks the south, there will be massive retaliation, primarily with the munitions pre-positioned in either Japan, Okinawa, Diego-Garcia, and elsewhere. I don't think we will be quite as caring about collateral damage or civilian casualties, and the intensity of the counterattack will stun some of us, just as assuredly it will annihilate thousands of them. Can't say for certain, but I'll wage that there is a plan already on the books that plans for how anti-aircraft systems will be neutralized, how the likely or suspected crossing sites along the DMZ will be carpet bombed, and how the Cruise and Tomahawk missles are programmed to strike certain hard targets.

[Boats]

It's got that feeling doesn't it. No matter what the politics are right now planning has to be underway - for that JUST IN CASE - situation.

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Boats
The plan your talking about is a contingency plan and the US Military has Contingency plans for the INVASION of Just about every country, It wouldn't be wise or prudent to wait until the 'last Moment' so to speak, to make a plan. When the time comes all there is to do is make small adjustments and put the plan into affect.
There are over 140 different types of cruise missile, and the Tomahawk is just one type.
Hears a site that will explain all about the cruise missile by some very knowledgeable people.
And a site that will tell you about the Tomahawk.




http://www.jfsc.ndu.edu/current_stud...ense_Final.doc


http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/bgm-109.htm

Ron