Japan threatens Korea with pre-emptive strike

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
GePap:

Now, now. You know that the only way a nation can *properly* counterattack an enemy is only *after* it's had a Pearl Harbor done to it. Never mind that any Pearl Harbors conducted nowadays might not necessarily be done with conventional weaponry ...

Gatekeeper

It's better than bombing the sh*t out of another country just to find that there has been no ethnic cleansing going on.

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Interesing enough, the only dangerous tyrant is the US.

China is a far more dangerous tyranny than the US is. You guys really shouldn't sell yourself short; you're still grade A thugs.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Sava -
Since it would be a "rebirth", then they didn't learn it from us. They did learn to build cars though. But what in the hell are you talking about? Since when does self-defense qualify as empire building?

You don't want to bother him with little logical facts like that. It gets him worked up if you do.

BTW Japan has the second largest navy and air force in the pacific. True, it doesn't have transports reserved just for the military but it has one of the largest merchant marines in the world and it has a large fleet of civilian air liners. If it really came to war then the Japanese could convert these into military use. We did it in WW2 so why couldn't they do the same thing?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
It's better than bombing the sh*t out of another country just to find that there has been no ethnic cleansing going on.

Having actually been there I can honestly say a whole host of war crimes occured in Kosovo. As a good arm chair liberal I'm sure the closest you got was the local library.

[Drake Tungsten]

That's a nice sig you got there, Oerdin.

[Dinner]

I stole it from some jerk off.

[Drake Tungsten]

I stole it from some jerk off.

[Dinner]

[CerberusIV]

Originally posted by Oerdin

BTW Japan has the second largest navy and air force in the pacific. True, it doesn't have transports reserved just for the military but it has one of the largest merchant marines in the world and it has a large fleet of civilian air liners. If it really came to war then the Japanese could convert these into military use. We did it in WW2 so why couldn't they do the same thing?

If it comes down to it does the US Navy have mothballed transports the Japanese could buy/lease?

[Dinner]

We have every thing from air craft carriers on down just tucked away waiting for some excuse to be brought back into service. I think they call it the stategic navel reserve or some such.

[Az]

If they have a strong enough paratrooper/transport Helo force, and would be able to establish aerial superiority, they would be able to capture a seaport via air, and then use traditional naval vessels to transport equipment.

[orange]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Having actually been there I can honestly say a whole host of war crimes occured in Kosovo. As a good arm chair liberal I'm sure the closest you got was the local library.

And a whole lot of war crimes occured in Croatia. And a whole lot of war crimes occured in Bosnia. And a whole lot of war crimes occured in Serbia.

Yeah, it's a ****ed up region in general.

What's wrong with the library?

[muxec]

N. Korea must be unarmed, and if UN can not unarm it peacefully Japan and USA must unarm it.

[lord of the mark]

I suspect what is going on here is that Japan is fed up iwth responses of Russia, China and Skor.

US has asked for multilateral talks with Nkor, and Nkor want one on one with US. China and Russia, despite their alleged beliefs in multielateralism, are not supportive of the US position. Everyone seems to want to give Nkor what they want when Nkor sword rattles, Japan is making clear it can play this game as well. Is this giving the region a good scare? - well its about time.

[H Tower]

BTW Japan has the second largest navy and air force in the pacific. True, it doesn't have transports reserved just for the military but it has one of the largest merchant marines in the world and it has a large fleet of civilian air liners. If it really came to war then the Japanese could convert these into military use. We did it in WW2 so why couldn't they do the same thing?

there's a difference between being able to ship your army to friendly harbors and assaulting hostile beaches. N.K. is definitely in the hostile beaches category. You need landing craft in addition to all the car carriers they have.