So Iraq has tons of mountains, forests, and winters that are sub zero temps along w/10 feet of snow on the ground? You comparing flat desert warfare to mountainous terrain w/extreme winters made me chuckle a bit.
Urban warfare is not desert warfare. And it's not flat either. Furthermore, any impediments to OUR movements are going to be even larger impediments to NK movement, since they won't have air superiority.
Would China's stealth fighters getting involved make you laugh or poo your pants? Because they will.
Well, since the plane has yet to make a test flight, at this point it would make me laugh. Give it a decade and maybe I'll care, but you're assuming that China would send their fighters in. That's not a given.
You're right: they're second rate, not fourth rate.
There is also no evidence taking out N.Korea would be easy either.
Actually, there is. Their infrastructure is crap, air strikes would make short work of their road and rail networks, and the very terrain you claim will work against us also means that they'll be paralyzed once these networks are hit. They're also perpetually low on food and fuel. No army wins under those conditions.
There is also no evidence that China would not get involved again if Korea gets their butts handed to em.
Actually there is.
China would step in before they fall.
Why would they? They already have a promise from South Korea that no US troops would be stationed north of the DMZ if reunification ever happens, WE have no interest in basing more troops there, and if war ever happens, the number 1 concern of China is going to be to prevent a flood of refugees into China. If China ever comes to blows with the US, it's not going to be over North Korea, it'll be over Taiwan. Worst-case scenario for us in this regard is that China uses a war with North Korea as an opportunity to strike at Taiwan while we're engaged elsewhere. In which case, Taiwan might be screwed, but China isn't going to rescue North Korea. They aren't worth the trouble.
If we launch an unprovoked attack against North Korea, that might frighten the Chinese enough to consider stepping in. But if war starts as a response to something that the north does, why would China step in? Their client state is a perpetual headache. The war would be sufficiently costly for us as is. China comes out
ahead of us if they don't spend a dime getting involved and let us fight and clean up the mess.
You have GOT to be kidding me. Russia has
no reason to stick out their necks for North Korea.
China, Japan, and Russia have been having islands disputes amongst themselves and Russia will do whatever it takes to keep China on their good side.
Those little islands aren't worth that kind of trouble.
Really? Are you so sure China would allow this? N.Korea is China's buffer zone.
And it would remain a buffer zone. South Korea has already promised no US troops stationed north of the DMZ. And the north is such a complete mess that South Korea would be struggling to clean up the mess for decades. In fact, if you really want to hobble South Korea, making them clean up North Korea is about the best thing you could do.
Well they have had 50years to not only stockpile but research synthetics also.
And we all know North Korean scientists are top-notch.
Synthetic fuels are not a source of energy. They are a way of changing existing energy from one form into another, and always involve inefficiencies. North Korea has a general fuel shortage of pretty much every kind. The ability to turn one kind of fuel into another kind of fuel is of no use when you don't even have enough of the first kind of fuel.
Comparing N.Korea to Germany is laughable.
Indeed: the Germans had food.
Which the North Korean military is not set up to use, because they are
Chinese satellites, not North Korean satellites.
Supposedly, but only if China does not step in.
Chinese involvement won't fix North Korean communications.
Also, Al-Queda is isolated in mountains in Pakistan and they are a continual nusciance.
That's rather the point: they're in
Pakistan. Where we aren't.
And if you think that China is going to play the part of Pakistan, you're deluding yourself. Unlike Pakistan, China tries to exert tight control over their border with North Korea. They don't WANT people coming and going freely. If war happens, they'll keep that border
closed, because they don't want North Korean refugees flooding China.
It was destroyed to prevent US troops from being attics
It's horrible when a person gets turned into the space between the roof and the ceiling of a house.
between 60% and 70% of North Korea's military assets are already within 5 miles of the DMZ
