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Koramei posted:Is it bad relative to our naval spending or just not bad at all then? I've read no shortage of people complaining about it (which evidently I took to be a very authoritative source). The truth is that if you know what you're doing with a diesel-electric sub you can make yourself incredibly difficult to find. The downside of course is that you can't do it for very long or very far from home and once you start moving you're easy to find again.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:I don't think any of our 2 diesel subs operational since they sprung leaks and England refused to fix them after selling them to us.
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A big flaming stink posted:that would be one hell of a trick. Kim jong ill appears after death to prove divinity claims once and for all
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According to the CIA's World Factbook the US is number 18 behind a bunch of Pacific and Caribbean islands, Kuwait, Belize, Qatar, and Egypt. With the rest of the Arabian Peninsula and South/Central America not far behind. Japan wins at #157 as the thinnest country not currently the recipient of UN food aid. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Chomskyan posted:The North's claim to the rest of the Korean Peninsula is substantively different from it's claim to it's own territorial waters.
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Chomskyan posted:They are North Korea's territorial waters under customary international law (waters under 12 nautical miles from the coast of any given nation are considered territorial). So actually, in a legal sense the islands should belong to North Korea.
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Pope Guilty posted:Yeah, for your claim to be valid, that island has to be in a different hemisphere. 
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Main Paineframe posted:Eh, basically every war over the previous century has shown the foolishness of thinking that a bit of superior technology will effortlessly crush half-starved conscripts
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JeffersonClay posted:China's gdp is about 800 times larger than north korea's, they could support the entire country indefinitely if they desired.
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Chomskyan posted:The artillery pieces are hidden, and sheltered in caves etc The wily Kim regime has once again foiled the plots of the dastardly West by the use of holes in the ground. The one thing nobody in a position to design bombs ever thought of.
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Grouchio posted:Wishful propaganda or actual threats? I would like to hear your take. North Korea's military is a total joke that could probably be defeated by humanitarian air drops.
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Cliff Racer posted:As to their capabilities, we'll have to wait for the mil nerds to analyze pictures of the missile launchers to see how advanced (or even how fake) they are.
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:Also T-34/76s, which were obsolete a few years prior.
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:Imagine being the country that received those.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:The funny thing is, that article's technically true. If the USA went to war with North Korea (whether via an attack on US soil, President Trump getting a wild hair up his rear end, or whatever the hell) it would not be a particularly easy fight; they wouldn't be able to wage offensive war, but they'd be able to defend well enough to make it a big ol' pain in the dick for us, probably moreso than it'd be worth. The North Korean Army is pretty much the only part of the state apparatus that is even semi-functional and if it ever mobilized the whole country would start to starve.
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The real problem on the Korean peninsula is that American action movies and Call of Duty sequels aren't realistic enough. Someone should make a game where you deploy to the DMZ and just spend the whole game digging a poo poo trench in frozen ground. The twist ending is that you are so constipated from an all-MRE diet that you never get to poo poo in the trench. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Cliff Racer posted:Since when was he kidnapped? He was arrested by the police while stealing something. If this happened in the United States, with him ripping down a mural at a park visitor center or something you could expect the law to be followed just as well. Why is it the state department's job to bail him out when he's not only not being treated harsher than an average citizen caught preforming the same crime would be, but is actually being treated much more nicely. He's definitely not going to be killed either, fwiw. I am fully in favor of North Korea taking, and hopefully keeping, as many of our morons as possible.
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mediadave posted:I'm afraid that's literally impossible with current technology).
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Paradoxish posted:Yeah, this is what I don't understand about the arguments being made in this thread and elsewhere about a functional delivery system meaningfully changing things. Having an ICBM means the whole world suddenly becomes invested in your government not collapsing.
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Burt Buckle posted:Nuke these motherfuckers.
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Telephones posted:Why does NK demand total submission to whoever is at the top? Why do they continue to promote the cult of the Kim family? By they I mean those in charge whoever they may be.
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Sic Semper Goon posted:It had to happen sooner or later:
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Mr. Nice! posted:But I agree let the BMD shooters just doing circles in the ocean do something instead of just sitting there.
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Grouchio posted:Is it possible for Twitter to outright ban Trump?
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Conspiratiorist posted:You have no concept of how huge Twitter is.
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I like all these WW3 scenarios where the UK doesn't eat a pile of IRBMs just because.
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whatever7 posted:I am more interested in the rebuilding part of the new world. Like what kind of weird religion or ideology will the survivors come up with. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Sep 27, 2017 |
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Tias posted:I'm sorry if this is veering too off-topic, but since we're here: Anyone know if the US strategic rocket forces leadership is still dominated by millenarian evangelical psychopaths? That one used to keep me up at night Sleep tight.
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Baronjutter posted:I could see massive pressure to come to some sort of agreement and appeasement in the 2nd situation, but not in the first.
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OneEightHundred posted:Going from just enough interest for a low-budget stoner flick to zero interest is still a success. What matters is that anyone thinking of making a movie featuring North Korea now has to put "possible highly-damaging state-sponsored cyberattack" in the cost column, even if it's just a lovely low-budget comedy that's probably going to flop in theaters anyway. Are we sure Sony didn't just go "Yup, North Korea! We definitely didn't have the password set to "password" on the server containing IncriminatingEmails.zip.
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Zophar posted:If you have only a handful of nuclear devices and an invasion is underway, shooting them across the ocean into a massive, decentralized country is not a very good strategic decision.
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Gnumonic posted:There was an article in the NYTimes a few weeks ago about funding approved for a fleet of drones to essentially hover outside of North Korean territory constantly to shoot down ICBMS in the boost phase. Obviously something like that wouldn't work against Russia or China (because Russia and China are massive territories with thousands of ICBMs, and wouldn't tolerate our drones), but is there any reason something like that couldn't work in NK?
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Conspiratiorist posted:On the other hand, this is the Pentagon we're talking about, so I'm sure they can find a way to write a proposal that diverts funds away from sorely needed social and infrastructure programs, and into the ever-hungry maws of the defense industry.
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Sinteres posted:There are a number of experts saying this thing is closer to setting off than people realize.
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Sinteres posted:North Korea has good reason to be concerned when we engage in military drills simulating attacks on them, because using one as cover for an actual attack wouldn't be the worst way to do it (though maybe North Korea's state of alarm when we do them would reduce the advantage of our own heightened readiness, who knows). I mean, as much fun as it is to get worked up over the Kim regime's 64th annual "We're totally gonna do it this time!" let's not pretend that anyone in the US wants to do anything but maintain the status quo. Blowing up Korea would make a lot of very rich people slightly less rich, and that's the cardinal sin of American politics. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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I'd be surprised if there isn't a self destruct capability on the ABM interceptors. With all the velocity those things have after a miss it wouldn't take much to turn them into a multi-hundred square kilometer shotgun blast of debris.
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Mozi posted:US interceptors don't explode, they're just a solid projectile that tries to hit the missile (to the best of my knowledge). If they miss they will just keep flying.
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Conspiratiorist posted:Read, motherfucker.
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Conspiratiorist posted:Kindly elaborate.
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Conspiratiorist posted:EMP is a perfectly viable use for nuclear weapons
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