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War Games…Contingency Plans for North Korean Aggression
I suggest the ‘midnight oil’ has been burning brightly for some time now in US military planning commands around the world.
From the mind of a “Tom Clancy” style strategist, here is what I think might be in the works.
Extrapolating only from public and general information gained via the popular press, (If I had other access, I could not admit it and certainly could not publicize it), then we all know of the summer missile tests by North Korea and we know also that US forces recovered the remains of the long range missile launched by the North Koreans and consequently know everything about the capabilities of that weapon.
The mere event of North Korean testing that system set into motion an entire range of missile defense systems that were ordered into active alert status in areas that will permit interdiction before any future missile launch could impact a South Eastern Alliance member nation.
Simultaneously, missile launch sites in North Korea were pinpointed by satellite tracking devices and integrated with fifty years of intelligence information concerning North Korean military installations. In country Intel sources were placed on higher alert and all surveillance resources were brought online to update and modify current knowledge about readiness and capabilities.
Defense Department and Military Planning facilities began second level planning concerning staging areas, similar to, but not identical, to those that were in play in the Korean Conflict of 1950. Naval Fleet assignments were considered and initial planning begun for a reallocation of resources to the theater.
Plans were set in action to activate reserve forces specific to the duty required and men, material and resources began an allocation curve to readiness on a higher level requirement, not quite a ‘stand-by’ status, but all the background build-up for rapid deployment if required.
Possessing a ballistic missile, long range delivery system also means the North Koreans have the capability of satellite construction and insertion into orbit and one may presume that North Korea has earth orbit satellites currently in orbit with surveillance capabilities and perhaps offensive capabilities also. Thus one may also presume that each and every satellite is known by the United States and targeted as first strike imperatives in the event of conflict. One has to also consider the intelligence that went into the destruction of the Twin Towers; EMP Electro magnetic Pulse weapons…it is within the realm of possibility that North Korea has, in orbit, a device that would destroy US satellite capabilities and virtually blind surveillance and weapons engagement.
To a greater or lesser degree, depending on the nation, each country as a signatory to the South East Asia Treaty Organization, (SEATO) would be informed and asked to coordinate the defensive preparations and gathering of forces underway.
All the planning, while urgent at the command and planning level, still takes time to accomplish and is done without public announcement and under strict security procedures, personnel involved are not free to speak of their deployment orders.
This was all in progress and proceeding, most likely according to plan when North Korea claimed to have detonated a nuclear device.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering conventional, chemical or biological weapons reside at a certain level of threat awareness. When not actually at war, SEATO nations are limited by treaty to only responding once an overt attack has been made.
That all changed with the apparently successful testing of a Nuclear device.
Planning now accelerates to a higher level. Pre-emptive interdiction now guides the rules of engagement as neither the SEATO nations, nor neighboring Asian nations will tolerate a possible first strike Nuclear attack.
Any and all troop movements towards the demilitarized zone separating the North from the South will be immediately known. Any Naval activity of warships or even commercial shipping that could act as a platform for offensive action, will be known and tracked. Any and all activity around known missile launch sites will be constantly monitored and known instantly in command centers around the world.
Naval, supply, transport, men and materials from all SEATO nations will begin gathering in staging areas and transpacific supply lines will be activated and utilized at the highest level. Constant and 24/7 aircraft surveillance is already in effect, fully armed and ready.
None of this will be announced or publicized and you will, and do, know nothing of the build-up and the preparation and the planning.
As the crisis intensifies and war scares multiply into the popular media as it will, and the politicians begin the dialogue and satisfy the feeding frenzy of the media, it will seem a tumultuous time is at hand.
It is not.
The United States, alone, all by itself, has the military capability, at this moment, in place, locked and loaded, over North Korea, with the use of non Nuclear weapons, to neutralize, destroy if you will, every missile site, every ship, every aircraft and every troop concentration of the North Koreans.
Event if a missile were launched from North Korea, defensive weapons, already in place, could destroy a thousand missiles, simultaneously arising and then destroy the bases they were launched from.
The US has Airborne and Satellite Laser weapons capable of tracking and destroying any number of offensive weapons launched from any location in North Korea, indeed, from any location in the world.
The only avenue of possible success for North Korea is to deliver a device by submarine or fishing boat or by land transport into South Korea and inflict a ‘terrorist’ like attack on an urban area; or aboard ship, somehow hidden and concealed to be detonated at a port of choice, perhaps anywhere in the world.
But even if, and once the military potential for delivering destruction outside the borders of North Korea is eliminated, that does not solve the problem.
There would still be a million armed military personnel to contend with in North Korea. Conventional force would eliminate most, as it did it Iraq, in both wars, but still, ‘boots on the ground’ soldiers would have to go into North Korea. This brings up China and perhaps even Communist Vietnam.
I make no predictions, but it seems inevitable that ‘something’ is going to occur.
What will it be?
Amicus…
I suggest the ‘midnight oil’ has been burning brightly for some time now in US military planning commands around the world.
From the mind of a “Tom Clancy” style strategist, here is what I think might be in the works.
Extrapolating only from public and general information gained via the popular press, (If I had other access, I could not admit it and certainly could not publicize it), then we all know of the summer missile tests by North Korea and we know also that US forces recovered the remains of the long range missile launched by the North Koreans and consequently know everything about the capabilities of that weapon.
The mere event of North Korean testing that system set into motion an entire range of missile defense systems that were ordered into active alert status in areas that will permit interdiction before any future missile launch could impact a South Eastern Alliance member nation.
Simultaneously, missile launch sites in North Korea were pinpointed by satellite tracking devices and integrated with fifty years of intelligence information concerning North Korean military installations. In country Intel sources were placed on higher alert and all surveillance resources were brought online to update and modify current knowledge about readiness and capabilities.
Defense Department and Military Planning facilities began second level planning concerning staging areas, similar to, but not identical, to those that were in play in the Korean Conflict of 1950. Naval Fleet assignments were considered and initial planning begun for a reallocation of resources to the theater.
Plans were set in action to activate reserve forces specific to the duty required and men, material and resources began an allocation curve to readiness on a higher level requirement, not quite a ‘stand-by’ status, but all the background build-up for rapid deployment if required.
Possessing a ballistic missile, long range delivery system also means the North Koreans have the capability of satellite construction and insertion into orbit and one may presume that North Korea has earth orbit satellites currently in orbit with surveillance capabilities and perhaps offensive capabilities also. Thus one may also presume that each and every satellite is known by the United States and targeted as first strike imperatives in the event of conflict. One has to also consider the intelligence that went into the destruction of the Twin Towers; EMP Electro magnetic Pulse weapons…it is within the realm of possibility that North Korea has, in orbit, a device that would destroy US satellite capabilities and virtually blind surveillance and weapons engagement.
To a greater or lesser degree, depending on the nation, each country as a signatory to the South East Asia Treaty Organization, (SEATO) would be informed and asked to coordinate the defensive preparations and gathering of forces underway.
All the planning, while urgent at the command and planning level, still takes time to accomplish and is done without public announcement and under strict security procedures, personnel involved are not free to speak of their deployment orders.
This was all in progress and proceeding, most likely according to plan when North Korea claimed to have detonated a nuclear device.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering conventional, chemical or biological weapons reside at a certain level of threat awareness. When not actually at war, SEATO nations are limited by treaty to only responding once an overt attack has been made.
That all changed with the apparently successful testing of a Nuclear device.
Planning now accelerates to a higher level. Pre-emptive interdiction now guides the rules of engagement as neither the SEATO nations, nor neighboring Asian nations will tolerate a possible first strike Nuclear attack.
Any and all troop movements towards the demilitarized zone separating the North from the South will be immediately known. Any Naval activity of warships or even commercial shipping that could act as a platform for offensive action, will be known and tracked. Any and all activity around known missile launch sites will be constantly monitored and known instantly in command centers around the world.
Naval, supply, transport, men and materials from all SEATO nations will begin gathering in staging areas and transpacific supply lines will be activated and utilized at the highest level. Constant and 24/7 aircraft surveillance is already in effect, fully armed and ready.
None of this will be announced or publicized and you will, and do, know nothing of the build-up and the preparation and the planning.
As the crisis intensifies and war scares multiply into the popular media as it will, and the politicians begin the dialogue and satisfy the feeding frenzy of the media, it will seem a tumultuous time is at hand.
It is not.
The United States, alone, all by itself, has the military capability, at this moment, in place, locked and loaded, over North Korea, with the use of non Nuclear weapons, to neutralize, destroy if you will, every missile site, every ship, every aircraft and every troop concentration of the North Koreans.
Event if a missile were launched from North Korea, defensive weapons, already in place, could destroy a thousand missiles, simultaneously arising and then destroy the bases they were launched from.
The US has Airborne and Satellite Laser weapons capable of tracking and destroying any number of offensive weapons launched from any location in North Korea, indeed, from any location in the world.
The only avenue of possible success for North Korea is to deliver a device by submarine or fishing boat or by land transport into South Korea and inflict a ‘terrorist’ like attack on an urban area; or aboard ship, somehow hidden and concealed to be detonated at a port of choice, perhaps anywhere in the world.
But even if, and once the military potential for delivering destruction outside the borders of North Korea is eliminated, that does not solve the problem.
There would still be a million armed military personnel to contend with in North Korea. Conventional force would eliminate most, as it did it Iraq, in both wars, but still, ‘boots on the ground’ soldiers would have to go into North Korea. This brings up China and perhaps even Communist Vietnam.
I make no predictions, but it seems inevitable that ‘something’ is going to occur.
What will it be?
Amicus…
