My son is in the theatre and while there is no need to come to blows you can be assured that if push comes to shove that shove will prevail.

wat?

Perfect way to ask the question:

If Mr. Kim Chee decides to launch something, regardless of what it is or where it may or may not be headed, what would you do?

I would shoot it down. You have no idea if it is harmless, where it is going and what the intent is. Dont think you take the chance to find out what happens when the missle lands. Dont shoot into NK, just knock the missle out of the sky.



Anybody else?

I think we could shoot it down quietly and NK would never know.

A single one of our carriers could obliterate their military. We have... 11 carriers?

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A single one of our carriers could obliterate their military. We have... 11 carriers?

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The hubris in that statement typifies the attitude that MacArthur exhibited about the US military response to the June 1950 invasion of the south. He described the battalion task force sent to stop the North Korean invasion as "an arrogant display of force". The North Koreans weren't impressed. Despise them but don't underestimate them just because they are a cult led by a family of BSC tyrants.

http://johnsmilitaryhistory.com/tfsmith.html









Perhaps a CBG could destroy the entire DPRK military, if you got them out of their bunkers and lined them up. The cult of the aircraft carrier rests on the premise of invulnerability ('nothing gets past Aegis') to counterstrike and a virtually inexhaustible supply of fuel and ordnance. Logisticians make a career out of injecting reality into overly optimistic war plans (but too often not until the plan is actually being executed because logisticians are sometimes viewed as killjoys who are only allowed comment after the plan is roughed out).



[This message has been edited by Ulysses90 (edited 4/13/2013 9:08a).]

One well placed shot takes a carrier out.

Remember the unsinkable Titanic?

I dont take NK lightly, but they have us by the short ones; if we shoot at any missle they might launch (test or otherwise), they will claim they were attacked. If we dont shoot the missle down, and something happens, then we are looked at as not backing what we say.

Intersting decision; still, I would shoot and bear the brunt of our actions later.