Unlikely Being one is just sending advisers which is quite common. And the other 2 sent in troops. IN fact our real regular army wasn't there till 1965. Before that we weren't really fighting.
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Yea 1998. I added in all the other ones too. That was just one of the sources.
It's still common knowledge that Vietnam war was the legacy of Lyndon Johnson.
As for all that you would then have to start adding little things such as use refueling and using spy planes on Saudis attacks on Yemen under President Obama. Which of course we wouldnt because U.S troops were not used in an armed battle.
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Even then your link says that Harry S. Truman a democrat sent maag.
In September 1950, US President Harry Truman sent the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to Vietnam to assist the French in the First Indochina War. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of US military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces. By 1953, aid increased dramatically to $350 million to replace old military equipment owned by the French.
So you kinda failed.
The US will not invade N Korea. This is just a attempt by the US Administration to draw attention away from its problems and obvious corruption. They just did the same with Venezuela and Iran. Expect more threats as the investigations into the US Executive branch get closer to finding something.
Even if the US magically teleports the personnel and equipment needed for a invasion into position for a invasion they will not invade. Because
1. It will be another quaqmire. The US is struggling in Afghanistan to keep some regions properly patrolled.
2. N Korea has been preparing for over 50 years for the US to attack and has been observing US tactics and how to counter them.
3. N Korea has Nuclear weaponry, artillery aimed at S Korea and if pushed into the corner will use everything it has take as many Japanese, Americans , S Koreans with them. N Korea is even rumoured to have Smallpox.
I can also guarantee you that Xi Jinping and Putin will go out to N Korea with a Shovel and dig that country so deep below sea level that it will become Atlantis 2.0 before they let the Americans get a foothold or set up a puppet state so close to their borders.
TLDR. Kim and Trump are screeching at each other and that will be all and both sides are using this to hide information from their populations.
No, I am not really that excited about war in general, I understand they are a necessary evil but I am in no way excited about it.
It's just too bad that moderators on this site and many many other internet sites are only capable of banning people and locking threads and not doing what a moderator is supposed to do which are promoting discussion and steering that discussion unto it's correct course.
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I don't see a safe and stable future with North Korea in it.
Shit will suck, but a nuclear North Korea will suck worse.
Never realized how many stupid people there are in the world (Well, I knew, I just didn't want to believe it) and then I saw pro war people on this forum and it confirmed it for me.
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Psychopaths. My region has seen enough death to realize it never wants to see a war again.
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I'm tired. So very tired. Can I just lay my head on your lap and fall asleep?
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While yes, there are bases there, United States Force Korea numbers only 28500 men; considering that North Korean army numbers between 1 and 2 million in active service, that's nowhere near enough. Ferrying menpower from all bases in Japan would do a lot to alleviate the issue, but it would take several days at best. That's under the conditions where North Korea would be VERY busy shelling the area south of the DMZ and sending rockets all over South Korea, Japan and nearby Paciffic. And even after ferrying the manpower in, invading North Korea is going to be a logistical and casualty nightmare - for comparison, take a look at what Taliban is capable of doing in Afghanistan, similarly mountainous, and they lack a military structure AND the numbers North Korean military has.
Keep also in mind, that there is a nonnegligable likelyhood of China and possibly Russia providing material support to North Korea, even if they are officially neutral. The local relationships would also be pretty severely damaged, if the US were the invading side (and no matter what we think about Russia and China, they ARE economically very important, so a conflict in Korea would be felt everywhere one way or another).
North Korea would lose EVENTUALLY, but the number of people dead after it could make it the deadliest conflict since WW2. That's without including any nuclear strikes. After that, the US would find itself in control of territory that would be completely destroyed (taking out all industry would be pretty much a given, and considering the size of armed forces involved, agriculture would be pretty much gone as well). With insurgencies to boot. And a refugee wave more or less on par the one going on in the Middle East right now. It could be expected that South Korea would end up officially in control of the territory, but it would effectivelly fall to the US to control the area and its reconstruction (as South Korea, be it an economic giant, couldn't handle recreating North Korea from scratch). That would take a few decades, too.
All in all, an actual war in North Korea would be a nightmare for a LONG time, even after an eventual declared victory.
Oh, and let's not forget that the outlook of the Baltics would be pretty bleak once the largest NATO military would be bound on the other side of the planet. And I am not counting on the few largest following to move a finger either.