Every time I get on Facebook there is a question at the top that says "what's on your mind". It's the same amount of work for me to post it here or on Facebook so I think I'll post it here instead of Facebook and then link it afterward.
What I think about a lot is Korea. North and South. About 10 years ago I watched a show in public television that taught me more about the Korean War than I had ever imagined. North Korea had the support of China and there are an estimated 1 million Chinese who died trying to attack American machine-gun placement. They were short on weapons so as they advanced the man in front had a gun. When he was shot the Chinese man behind him would pick up the gun and keep advancing. They interviewed an American machine-gunner who ran a 50 caliber machine gun and faced the on coming Chinese. He said it was horrible they were just cut down in numbers too large to imagine. At night this "ghost Army" of Chinese would come and get their dead and take them away and so the numbers were never really known other than estimates.
I have known for over 10 years that there are more weapons and armies in the Korean Peninsula than anywhere in the world. Technically and practically they are still at war. The US is the only deterrent realistically against an attack by the North on the south. Our deterrent is only effective as long as we attack North Korea before they can mass in South Korea. At that point our deterrent fails because we would be killing South Korean along with the North Koreans. Because of this precarious situation I have feared war in that area more than anywhere else.
The Middle East and Afghanistan get a lot of press but Korea terrifies me. The US would have to time a counterattack upon North Korea before they crossed the DMZ. The timing would be critical and our air superiority in the air should be able to decimate North Korean army as long as they do not make it into South Korea. I know there's an air base that strategically is ready to go at a moments notice. We also have at our readiness a nuclear option that would need to preempt any attack by North Korea. This is what terrifies me.
A nuclear attack by us might precipitate you retaliatory strike by China. After that nuclear fallout would be devastating and who knows what other countries would get involved. I don't know the numbers of Chinese nuclear missiles but I read the other day in Pakistan as 250 nuclear warheads on missiles. I don't know how many are in India or Russia but I can only imagine if everyone got involved the nuclear fallout and the actual blasts would decimate our world.
So that is what is on my mind today and many other days.
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