Additionally, neither Thule AB in Greenland, nor NAS Keflavik has fighters (as far as I know). I know F-15C have operated out of Keflavik at times, but I’m pretty sure there are no fighter/interceptor assets stationed in Greenland or Iceland.

I completely agree with all of that. They’d get decimated, and rather quickly. My point was, they do have the firepower to do tremendous damage for a day or two until we can silence those assets. Maybe things have changed, but when I was there 15 years ago, the general consensus was that our token military presence…

It all depends on where the convoy is. The farther south they are, the more difficult for them it would be. But, convoys traveling through the North Atlantic would be at risk. The Backfire can do Mach 2, with an unrefueled combat radius of 2,000 miles. The KH-55SM has a three-thousand kilometer range. The Russian’s…

Thanks for that. I’m pretty familiar with military stuff, but Russia’s historic demographics/origins are far from something I’m well informed on.

I completely disagree, as do most analysts and most of the military. I’ve been there. I’ve seen enough HUMINT and ELINT to be fully convinced that N. Korea is more than capable of hammering Seoul. They have 15,000 different forms of traditional and rocket artillery. They have an additional 7,500 tanks and APCs, with…

It isn’t crap. This is a widely accepted fact. I did a year with 2nd ID very near to the DMZ. They have ten thousand artillery pieces within range of Seoul. Half of which are self-propelled. More dangerous, they have an additional five-thousand missiles and rockets. Some of which exceed 300mm. Fifteen thousand…

You’re actually 100% on point.

Can’t edit grr!

What? It’s been amazingly successful for Israel. Where’s your source for that?

What you’re advocating just isn’t possible. Any situation that leaves even 25% of their artillery and rockets near the DMZ alive, means they shatter Seoul. Short of nukes, no matter how much firepower you employ, there is no way to keep N. Korea from saturating Seoul for hours. Even if we wiped out every single of…

Yep. I don’t see China or Russia getting directly involved. But, you can bet that they would be involved. The Russian’s would probably limit it to advisors and observers, but I would expect the PLA to offer a decent bit of support. It would be extremely similar to how Russia aided N. Korea back in the 1950s. That…

Preemptive carried out by the DPRK or S. Korea/US? If we launched a preemptive strike it wouldn’t work well enough. First thing you’d do is shatter their communication and command & control structure. That would go a long way towards isolating individual N. Korean units, buying more time to take them out before they…

Where do you get so much confidence in the S. Korean military? I spent a year there before the GWOT terror kicked off. Was at Camp Casey with 2nd ID (very near the DMZ).

The biggest issue is their artillery and rockets along/near the DMZ. It’s all in range of Seoul, and even a large preemptive strike would leave enough alive to decimate Seoul. Without nukes there is no way of negating all of that stuff before it did considerable damage. Much of that artillery is deeply dug in and…

Of course it would be tough, really tough. Nevertheless, short term hurdles isn’t a good enough reason to just leave them in squalor (assuming the “Dear Leader” and his minions lose power). S. Korea is an economic powerhouse. North Korea would just make it more affluent after a teething process. That teething process…

Without nukes, that would be impossible to do before NK leveled Seoul.

Again, it’s not hard to skirt F-22 in this situation. It’s more or less a given that they’d be aware of where Raptors are stationed. At that point it’s really simple math to plan a mission where bombers skirt the area where a scrambled F-22, even at full afterburner, would be incapable of getting into weapons range.…

This! Man I don’t understand why you don’t see people pointing that out in the media. In Crimea and Russia it’s all about who’s a “true Russian”, and that their civilization has been in the same place for a thousand years.

Eh it’s kinda doubtful. They can skirt the N. Pole and get their massive AhSM in range, then sprint home. The Raptor doesn’t have enough of a speed advantage to chase it down unless it’s already very close. This is one where the Raptor has minimal advantages over traditional 4th Gen interceptors (like the F-14). Sure…

Wow. I’d quit posting.