Tactical question: Better by daylight to aid evacuation, or night to avoid detection?
Joel Send a noteboard - 11/03/2013 06:48:21 PM
View original postPersonally I basically agree. Coordinate a preemptive strike with nothing but the troops and readiness we can get going with a minimum risk of giving it away and just hit them first. Time it when everyone is awake and give the shelter/evac order at the last moment, maybe 20-30 minutes before actual fire begins at the soonest. As I said originally, I think we're delaying the inevitable and every year raises the cost.
This is where I have been for a while; one of my big complaints in 2003 was "instead of the guy who MIGHT have nuks that CANNOT hit us, why not go after the guy who DEFINITELY has nukes that CAN?" So, since I take it for granted satellites have given us a pretty good idea of where most stationary North Korean artillery is, do you think it would be better to do a daytime evac/shelter at the risk of tipping our hand and giving them the first shot, or send in stealth fighters and bombers by night and hope we can wipe out most of the artillery before they can start firing? Which would cause the least South Korean devastation?
I know they will get far too many rounds off either way, but something akin to the Battle of Inchon might convince North Korea that shelling South Korea and the DMZ while US forces poured into the country elsewhere is a waste of scanty and desperately needed material. It would not prevent (and might hasten) their defeat, while ensuring the final peace were far more vindictive, and make the political deterrence to Chinese aid that much greater.
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North Korea Withdraws from Korean War Armistice
- 08/03/2013 10:39:44 PM
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Again? Didn't they "tear up the armistice" a few years ago?
- 08/03/2013 10:49:59 PM
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They said they were "no longer obligated" after the second nuke test, and would resist attacks.
- 09/03/2013 10:16:17 PM
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Not to diminish the role of China in this but you're bypassing the actual issue
- 09/03/2013 11:26:18 PM
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I would like it noted I responded to you before you responded to me. 
- 09/03/2013 11:40:18 PM
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- 09/03/2013 11:40:18 PM
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Duly noted
- 10/03/2013 01:03:59 AM
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One word: evacuation.
- 10/03/2013 03:22:42 AM
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The thought did occur to me, but swiftly followed by Isaacs response.
- 11/03/2013 05:26:37 PM
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NK artillery myth
- 10/03/2013 03:59:36 PM
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Seoul isn't the only urban location, refering to it simply saves time
- 10/03/2013 04:38:40 PM
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Well, but one would assume that after an initial salvo the South Koreans would counterstrike.
- 10/03/2013 06:51:34 PM
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Definitely, but you still get a high civilian body toll
- 10/03/2013 08:14:26 PM
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Tactical question: Better by daylight to aid evacuation, or night to avoid detection?
- 11/03/2013 06:48:21 PM
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Daylight, hands down I think
- 11/03/2013 07:22:26 PM
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No, I meant daylight to aid evacuation or night to prevent detecting an attack.
- 11/03/2013 10:14:57 PM
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Night favors us tactically, but it wouldn't keep the attack secret
- 12/03/2013 02:29:53 AM
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I would love to have a solid excuse for us to crush them like a bug.
- 08/03/2013 11:54:22 PM
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It really is a pity that N. Korea isn't located in remote Siberia.
- 09/03/2013 06:09:44 AM
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This. Sadly.
- 09/03/2013 04:38:13 PM
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I am beginning to wonder if China might formally annex North Korea, and the implications of that.
- 11/03/2013 06:24:28 PM
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You do realize you are massively exaggerating on the subject of China, yes?
- 13/03/2013 06:15:32 AM
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Fair point on South Korea; like I say, I would hate to be them right now.
- 09/03/2013 11:22:49 PM
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Wipe those fuckers off the face of the earth. Goddamn I'm tired of those bastards *NM*
- 09/03/2013 02:01:44 AM
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There is little I would like better, but I doubt China would allow it to be that simple.
- 09/03/2013 11:26:30 PM
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Great, another possible war. Don't people get tired of them? *NM*
- 11/03/2013 06:51:38 PM
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Evidently not, but then, this war never truly ended; it was just postponed to a later date.
- 11/03/2013 10:09:09 PM
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You do realize that this is the exact same legal justification for the Iraq invasion?
- 13/03/2013 05:06:51 PM
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