Trump is an idiot, as are you. Putin is a horrible scumbag and a tremendous danger to Europe as well as the Middle East, but you are too stupid to pour piss out of a boot, so I dont expect you to understand.

Not to mention the 2 America class ‘carriers’ that had to be built for the Marine Corps, at a price that is 50% more than an honest to god Nimitz class carrier. `The Naval service (as well as the Air Force) are doing a piss poor job of managing their money on equipment, despite record high levels of defense funding.

The answer to your question is yes, the very competence and capability of the Armed Forces are being severely compromised by ‘The Plane that Ate the Pentagon’ (There is a movie of that name that about the flying abortion that is the F-35 as well).

You are a blithering idiot. I say this as an infantryman with a CIB talking to a moron that doesnt know shit about CAS or why the A-10 is far more important to the defense of this nation that the completely POS, unflyable almost $200 million a pop (and will be much more when they have to retrofit all those goddamn…

A sub delivered weapon is the only chance they would have to get a working nuclear device across the border. The North Koreans have a really large amount of subs and could overwhelm the anti-sub capabilities of the US and Korean navies. The subs of the North Korean Navy outnumber the South Korean Navy and US Navy in…

The US currently has the ability to put each and every single piece of North Korean artillery out of action in around an hour, if we have sufficient time to move the appropriate assets in place (~7 days). We know the exact GPS location of each and every single cave, tunnel and dug in fortification and can put a 5…

We know the exact GPS location of every cave and tunnel on the North side and can put precision guided munitions in each and every single firing point they have within minutes and keep it up for as long as needed.

Less than 1000 of North Korea’s artillery pieces can reach the outskirts of Seoul, not counting any unguided ‘Scud’ type missiles they have. Nost of their tubes are short range 122mm and 152mm howitzers and their free flight artillery rockets cant reach 10 miles, much less the 25 needed to get to Seoul.

The US has been able to map underground tunnels for over 20 years now and I guarantee they have at least one of those satellites over the Korean peninsula for that purpose. I dont think the North Korean artillery is as hidden as they think it is.

As a former infantryman, contradicting an old ‘cannon cocker’ feels like I am trying to teach my grandmother how to suck eggs, but...

You are an idiot.

You have no idea wtf you are talking about. Any movement beyond the ‘Line of Departure’ by the North Koreans would be met by the complete annihilation of anything that moves. The ‘Highway of Death’ would look like a picnic at grandma’s house compared to the ability of the combined US and Korean forces to destroy the…

You are unbelievably ignorant. Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq were insurgencies, a type of war that the US military leadership is hopelessly incompetent at prosecuting. Any conflict with North Korea would be a large scale conventional conflict and no one does it better than us. Any insurgency/nation building would be…

The two pieces that can reach Seoul are the 170mm SPA they have, that represents the newest most sophisticated piece of artillery they have (~100 of them) known as the ‘Koksan’ which has a maximum range of 60 km using ‘rocket assisted projectiles’ (and 40 km otherwise):

The North Koreans wouldnt have to declare war, the US, South Korea and North Korea are already at war. The war never ended, there is only an armistice.

Im guessing you have never serves eiter in the US Air Force or any artillery unit and are unaware of the capabilities of both. The Us has the best pilots and artillery in the world, bar none and our ability to put HE directly on target with a CEP measured in feet is unmatched in the world.

There is no way in hell the US would use a nuclear device in Korea, unless the North Koreans used one against South Korea first. The use of a nuke is not a military decision, but a political one and we would have to get permission IN ADVANCE from both China and Russia before we could use one.

North Korea only have around 400,000 trained soldiers, the larger number mentioned wouldnt play into anything but a desperation cannon fodder defense of the capitol city or similar position.

We dont have enough bombers to carpet bomb a carpet store anymore, but we do have a wide variety of precision guided stand off munitions that make saturation bombing an unnecessary anachronism.

Ground penetrating radar satellites: