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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Well, North Korea isn't really even the trouble.
There's no question that we can easily eliminate NK from the planet. The trouble comes with their big brother: China.
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Yes like Afghanistan and Iraq were not a problem but I guess its taking a bit longer than you thought 8 years ago?
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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Yeah, I have.
1. The U.S. Military did not lose that war. The politicians did.
2. Our weapons are a tad more advanced today.
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NK would roll over SK before the US had any serious presence there.
These may be poorly equipped soldiers but they are brainwashed fanatics that makes Al Qaeda fanatics look like Sunday school children.
During the cold war the US strategy were to be able to fight two different wars at the same time you are during that now. Beside the 30K soldiers and the Pacific fleet how many more men do you think the US could put in Korea within 1-2 weeks?
You need a hell of a lot of air strikes to take out 1 million soldiers.
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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Speaking of countries having "the numbers", didn't I hear on the news that Iraq had like the 4th largest army in the world at the time of the gulf war(s)? Lots of personell, very little in the way of modern equipment, weapons, or training.
I'm with Sly, I too would take training and equipment over numbers any day. In this day and age Equipment and training are everything. Not sure how WWII got brought into it, just ONE of today's carriers could have anihilated the Pearl harbor attack force and wiped out the entire Japanese fleet. Then sailed to the Mediterranean and cleaned up the Nazis.
To those of you yakking on about how great Russia was in WWII you should really look up the term Lend-lease some time. Russia had the numbers but lacked the materials to fight the kind of war they needed to. The US sent over millions of dollars worth of munitions and materials via this program.
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Plenty of Iraqis were happy to run away and not fighting on Saddam's side Sunnis and Shias.
Russia had troops behind the canon fodder with orders to shoot anyone that hesitated or did not follow orders to attack.
NKs are fanatics thinking their great leader is God.
See the differences?