President's Pulpit

Published on January 27, 2006 By stevendedalus In Politics

"And let me use the Far East as an example of what I'm talking about," the president said. "There were some 30,000 on the South Korean peninsula. As you might remember, we reduced the amount of manpower and replaced it with technology."

What is that supposed to mean? Typical of one with an MB degree:greater productivity. Robots will be next--I hope they rush them to Iraq.

Comments

davad70

on Jan 27, 2006

Hmmm...maybe he was talking about soldiers?

Dr Guy

on Jan 27, 2006

When the Japanese perfect them (robots), can I buy one?

garsgolfer

on Jan 27, 2006

What is that supposed to mean?

Good question... It means that our offshore operatives and downsized military presents in that quadrant will have the use of high technology for keeping a BIG eye on NK's activities. In the past, having a large manpower foot print in any area meant military response time was lessoned. That isn't the case any longer with technology and since our military is redefining itself and it's capability in real-time. I don't believe robots are apart of anything other then computer games.

Today our military isn't remotely like yesterday's. We owe that to high tech satellites, our high tech fast response air and sea capabilites and highly skilled and tech supplied special forces teams means less of need for general military foot prints in SK.

More germane to NK, the capabilities of neighboring countries combined with our real time high tech response abilities NK gradually isn't the same type of threat now. Push comes to shove, our technology systems are proven, their's are limited in some cases, and untested in others, leaving their banter more like a bully puffing out their chest.

kingbee

on Jan 27, 2006

Push comes to shove, our technology systems are proven, their's are limited in some cases, and untested in others, leaving their banter more like a bully puffing out their chest

our technology--at least those implementations most likely to be required to destroy north korean assets sheltered deep inside mountains--has hardly been proven. if anything, north korea's small area works against us because our major allies and nk's neighbors are all a bit too close to our likely targets there.

garsgolfer

on Jan 27, 2006

Actually your information isn't up to date if your referencing our missile systems, distances and accuracy. NK, on the other hand has very limited testing when it comes guidance, payload and range. In target specific cases as small as NK, you also need to be more creative in your thinking regarding our available delivery systems.

Dr Guy

on Jan 27, 2006

On a differnent tact from Titan, what we dont know, can kill them. We dont know of our capabilities for to know it is to allow them to know it. It was not required in Iraq. It may be later.

You may be right. But you may be wrong. The real question is (given what we did reveal in Iraq) do you want to find out? I dont think Kim Jung mentally Il really wants to.

stevendedalus

on Jan 27, 2006

We owe that to high tech satellites, our high tech fast response air and sea capabilites and highly skilled and tech supplied special forces teams means less of need for general military foot prints in SK.

Kosovo proved that the wise use of technology precludes the need for ground forces, so why are we fighting a grunt war in Iraq?

It may be later.

Definitely because we learned our lesson in Iraq that we blundered in not using high technology.

kingbee

on Jan 27, 2006

Actually your information isn't up to date

so you're saying there'd be a different outcome today if we hadda destroy people holed up in tora bora? from what i've been led to believe, north korea has put a lotta time and effort into developing huge fortified underground facilities which are far closer to the norad facility at cheyenne mountain than al quaeda's caves.

In target specific cases as small as NK, you also need to be more creative in your thinking regarding our available delivery systems

not even the most stunningly precise delivery is gonna do much to prevent a nuclear conflict's deadly gift that keeps on giving from doing just that.

drmiler

on Jan 27, 2006

Actually your information isn't up to date

so you're saying there'd be a different outcome today if we hadda destroy people holed up in tora bora? from what i've been led to believe, north korea has put a lotta time and effort into developing huge fortified underground facilities which are far closer to the norad facility at cheyenne mountain than al quaeda's caves.

Different type of battle. Inform yourself a little better. At Tora Bora they needed bodies in one piece so they could identify them "after" the fact. With NK no such compunction exists. If they get blown to bits.....oh well. At Tora Bora they were looking for "someone" in particular. With NK they are after hardware.

stevendedalus

on Jan 28, 2006

At Tora Bora they needed bodies in one piece so they could identify them "after" the fact.

a rather shortlived encounter, wasn't it?

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