Who's ready for The Korean War Pt. 2?

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by derf

Don't kid yourself on this one. Yes they don't have the resources or equipment that we do, but they have one main advantage. They train to fight in one environment, the mountains and jungles of the korean peninsular. They also have one of the largest special ops forces in the world, and by spec ops I mean guerrilla warfare. They also structured their fighting forces for mobility with an emphasis on tanks, self powered artillery and APC's. They are definately not some backwoods band of jungle fighters.

Where we have the advantage is in air and sea superiority. They couldnt fly for shit, KJI is so scared of them defecting, many pilots have flown one time or less as professionals. Their air defense artillery is also primarily based on vietnam era technology. The nave is primarily using pre korean war technology upgraded with vietnam era weapons. An estimated 1/2 of their ships are in such dissrepair that they dont dare leave the safety of harbours.

With all that, I wouldnt want a ground fight vs N Korea, and any air or naval strikes can expect a retalitory ground invasion of the south.

I totally agree, however, our troops are pretty battle hardened fighting two wars for the better part of the decade. The thing I would be worried about is we will be stretched real thin fighting three seperate campaigns.
Also, we best make sure China stays neutral or sides with us or we will be in big trouble.
We have a big advantage in fire power/tech and battle experiance. Iraq had the fourth largest Army before we plowed through there(if I remember correctly?)
Also, when I was in Iraq, it had extreme temp changes...it was 130*F in the summer and got to around freezing in the winter(I was at Habbaneya/Falluja).
Korea has VERY cold winters, if you recall the frozen Chosin.
The deal with the first Korean conflict was the Soviet/China support for N Korea, winters and the guerilla aspect.

[EpyonXero]

You take out NKs leadership and the Chinese will fill the vacuum.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

You take out NKs leadership and the Chinese will fill the vacuum.

Yeah, with Lead and Melamine.

JC

[Razor]

If we were to provoke NK to attack, we better have plenty of Patriot batteries setup in Japan also, because one of the first things they will do is launch Nodong missles/rockets(God I just love saying that) armed with everything from conventional to biological to chemical warheads to bring Japan in.

NK special forces are no joke either, they routinely (at least up until a few years ago) would sneak onto mainland Japan (usually in the northern parts) and abduct japanese women to be taken back to NK, surveil targets of interest, deliver or pick up who knows what...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=6495,2275257

If you have ever been to a US owned/occupied base in SK, you should look at the golf courses. If you do you will notice that there is never a fairway longer than 200yards without a sandtrap/waterhazard/dogleg in it. They are specifically designed that way to keep NK spec ops from landing ther little AN-2 Colts on the fairways since they only need several hundred yards to land...

Armistice!

[Rangerscott]

Maybe 2012 will strike them first.

[Homeslice]

Remnants of the Domino Theory

OMG THOSE COMMUNISTS.......NO MATTER HOW FAR APART THEY ARE FROM EACH OTHER, OR HOW DIFFERENT IN CULTURE EACH OF THEIR COUNTRIES IS, THEY WOULD ALIGN WITH EACH OTHER TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD !!!!!11

[EpyonXero]

I wish I had a photo like this.