Re: Current NK Military Operations

["Bob Dove" <swan@haysco.net>]

Do you folks know that the guidance system alone on a so-called smart bomb
costs $20,000?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Dove" <swan@haysco.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Current NK Military Operations


> I would say this is a pretty good assessment. And our thinking that we can
> rely on "smart" bombs and other gimmicks to beat tough, determined ground
> forces is another thing that will contribute to our defeat .... that, and
> wishy washy politicians..
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "will" <will@netpath.net>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:14 PM
> Subject: Current NK Military Operations
>
>
> > www.dia.mil
> > Click Freedom of Information Act
> > They have a Marine Corp manual from 1997 concerning North Korea.
> >
> > Basically the North Korean attack plan is annihalition through chemical
> > heavy conventional and biological artillery that would cover a massive
> > invasion
> > using ground troops, tanks, and armored personnel carriers.  They would
> > attack
> > from the same three routes they used in the Korean War, and they would
> also
> > send their 100,000 special forces behind CFC lines in ROK uniforms to
> > sabotage
> > and assasinate in order to mess up our 3C (commmand, control, and
> > communications)
> > capabilities.
> >
> > The US only has 37,000 troops in Korea compared to the ROK's 2,000,000
and
> > many of
> > these would be annihalated with most of Seoul during the opening
attacks.
> I
> > believe that
> > the ROK forces could function with US Naval and Air support and that
using
> > ground troops
> > for logistical support instead of having them as combat troops on the
38th
> > parrallel would make
> > everyone happier.  (ROKA forces would have to be trained to tell US
> Aircraft
> > where to drop
> > their bombs.  I think that's the major issue.)
> >
> > I also  think the coast of Korea isn't monitored as much as it should
be.
> > That costs money though.
> >
> > I heard from a West Point cadet that the average life expectancy of a
USFK
> > soldier on the
> > border if hostilities break out is 30 seconds.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <AMPSOne@aol.com>
> > To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: the Korean teenage girls
> >
> >
> > > In a message dated 6/26/2002 7:22:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > Jhk789@aol.com
> > > writes:
> > >
> > > << As for sex crimes by G.I.s in Korea, I think this is still
> > >  a serious problem. In particular, many Korean girls working in the
G.I.
> > >  towns have been often brutally murdered or assaulted.
> > >  This is one of the reasons why I am in favor of bringing our boys
home
> > >  from Korea.
> > >   >>
> > > This is disingenous. Most of the time this sort of thing happens
> elsewhere
> > > it's either the locals getting "even" with women that associate with
GIs
> > or
> > > the local pimps keeping their girls in line. It was the same in Viet
> Nam,
> > > Thailand, Okinawa, etc.
> > >
> > > It wasn't quite the same in Germany (albeit there they have "unions"
and
> > even
> > > take credit cards) but women who dated blacks were usually ostracized
as
> > > "schwartze liebern" and occasionally beaten or killed.
> > >
> > > I've seen way too many reports from MPs and JAG on what happens to buy
> > this
> > > line. Most idiots who do rough women up wind up like the ones in Japan
> and
> > > Okinawa who are now doing time in Japanese prisons for their
> foolishness.
> > >
> > > Cookie Sewell
> > > AMPS
> >
>
>
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