Situation on Korean Peninsula, April 2013

Let us look into the situation on Korean Peninsula;

1) We have 30K troops in South Korea, North has 1 million plus 6 million reserves.

2) Most of our military is tied up in Afghanistan till the end of 2014.

3) Our troops are showing combat fatigue since many are on their 3rd or 4th deployment.

4) We can't use nuclear or chemical weapons against the North because of China and Russia and yet if         they have them, North Korea has every reason to use them to  spread the conflict worldwide and win.

5) Air superiority alone can’t win wars. Carpet bombing could not win Vietnam War.

6) Where will the money come from for this war? Borrow more from Chinese while fighting Chinese or print more?

7) Kim Jung Un figured out that China simply can’t afford to let North Korea be taken off the map regardless of the rhetoric.

8) Strategic equation between North Korea, China, Russia and the US has not changed since the end of Korean War in 1953. Soviet Mig-15s flew combat missions against us during Korean War. Chinese soldiers made the back bone of the Communist forces, a scenario likely to repeat.

9) Kim Jung Un has a window of opportunity to attack since we are militarily spread thin right now.

10) Economic sanctions have led to wars before.

11) Obama is no JFK.

Feel free to draw your own conclusions but I think we are headed into another major war in the Far East with possibly unpleasant consequences for us.