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A lot of focus on the Nukes and Missiles but that is not the issue, at least in my pea brain. With moderate effort we could take out his nuclear sites and the missiles, it is the 18,000 artillery pieces with in close proximity of Seoul (a city of 10 million), that is the real tactical problem. I would love to be the parked in a SCAR orbit just south of the 38th coordinating with dumb trucks full of SDB and CBU pushing through every five minutes.

Tell your brother to get his shit together and start pulling his weight for the family!

Some official entity needs to characterize the rhetoric being spouted by both NK and the USA into something that simple minded folks like "me" can understand and prepare for. Maybe the JCS or the US Unified/Specified Combatant Commands can characterize these official statements from least severe to most catastrophic. Also, the rumor is that the folks in Guam are being advised to start practicing "Covfefe" drills (Covfefe = new code word for "Duck and Cover" drills). I recommend starting Covfefe drills NLT the Double Dog Dare phase (DEFCON 3). Something like this might work for this particular AO (USPACOM); - DEFCON 5 = "Simple/Basic Dare". - DEFCON 4 = "Double Dare". - DEFCON 3 = "Double Dog Dare". - DEFCON 2 = "Triple Dare". - DEFCON 1 = "Triple Dog Dare". This is the coup de gras of all dares and means Nuclear War is imminent.

Ouch. That is why I am not becoming dove on NK but no longer exactly a hawk either. The window for a military solution (pre-emptive first strike followed by regime change and military occupation) is either closed or rapidly closing. The cost is too high in casualties, the military mission risky of expansion involving the PRC and the best outcome is a long term occupation, trillion+ nation building process fraught with known and unknown problems. The conclusion of (occupation/rebuilding) is uncertain and the US is unlikely to ever be thanked for. My humble conclusion is that in starting a new war with NK, there is nothing to be won so why start one. Not respond and win if attacked first but there is nothing to win in first strike. I have no wish to see the NK people further enslaved and used cruelly by a despot and his evil cohorts but ultimately, given our values, the cost and the military facts of the situation, deposing him and company thru an offensive military solution is not a realistic option. But tolerating the current and legacy situation is not an option either, just how to change that is the question hence my belief that it will take something completely different than what we have currently been thinking of for the past decades. Credible conventional military deterrence in theater & Strategic Capability and Retaliation assured against aggression - couple that sword and shield to a new diplomatic effort that proposes partial unification, a formal peace treaty and a trade engagement plan. Everything has built up to a crescendo, the resolution needs to be something other than the first shot fired.

I can bring you 16 CBUs and 8 JDAM to boot... Got to use those CBU-103s and 104s while they're still street legal.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/279 Proposed in 2015. Still not approved. Services don't like it because it "will cost too much."

Why didn't you all just depart VFR? Surely we're not planning on filing flight plans during nuclear war or a contested airdrop.

Loyd, you can't triple stamp a double stamp.

Ask to talk to the first officer in the finance chain of command. Ruffles feathers with the sweaties...but gets the job done usually.

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