quit stalking me please.

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Shawnee that was MY joke!!!
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Thank you classicman. Welcome to the cellar. I'm glad you like that bit of borrowed wisdom. I'm not a Bonaparte scholar, but I do tend to collect bits like this. They tend to stick in my head. There's a whole collection of them round here somewhere... Quote of the day Found it! Enjoy. Good to have you aboard.

thanks!

Might do a bit of research -- I've heard that quote attributed to Sun Tzu.

DPRK qua DPRK wouldn't manage any too well against the modern American military, regardless of how many million they have under arms (roughly two), because they are not a modern army but a mid-twentieth-century one, with the feeblest of economies behind it. I say we'd mulch them. We own the day, the night, the air, the sea, space -- everything but the bush over the fighting hole. It would be a matter of our firing two million rounds.

I mostly agree with this, but I'd like to add that I guess a large percentage of the DPRK's army only joined up because it was the only way they could get fed on a regular basis. When the shooting starts I would expect more white flags than last-ditch stands.
But, if there are 2 million enemy soldiers, do you really think the US forces would fire only 2 million bullets? This is a force that has firepower and uses it ... I'd raise that by a factor of ten.
But of course ... China ...

I'm speaking loosely, but I'm supposing two million munitions of all types in an order of battle for taking the rest of the Korean peninsula. We're getting scary accurate with smart munitions, which does a lot to cut down the sheer tonnage of stuff shot at the foe and the collateral damage too.

That you mention the white flags is I think the same reason I mentioned the feeble economy. War colleges tell us that all wars are fundamentally economic -- the economy that takes less damage or can absorb more damage is in the end what determines the winner of a war, given similar degrees of motivation to give battle. North Korea could not sustain a war with us, and likely could not sustain a war with the ROK. A month's fighting would exhaust their sinews. Intelligent psych-war would sap their wills. Internet access would defeat the ideology.

Load the B-52s with laptops.

Don't forget the HumRats too! They need something to nibble on while they surf the Web.

I have this wacky theory that we ought to prop up North Korea as a kind of global museum/giant theme park. Call it StalinistLand (the unhappiest place in the universe).
The idea being to provide a lasting example of just how screwed up the extreme Stalinist state is. DPRK is the last real example of this, I think it is good to use the tensions in the Korean peninsula to illustrate to youngsters that for 40 years the whole world was torn in similar tension.
Ok, I said it was a wacky idea.

Oh, BTW, "Internet access would defeat the ideology." ... A guy just got publicly executed for making international phone calls. I don't think they haz the interweb!

Flood them with laptops, or even Blackberries, and make the whole country a wireless hotspot.

You might, but you probably won't.

Now that you've said that he probably will. It's reverse quantum.

Oh wait, now that I've said this he probably wont.

But now that I've said that he probably will.

But now that I've said that ....

Oh ohhhh.

lol :frown: lol :frown: lol