(June 26, 2024 at 8:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's important beyond whatever ideological differences exist. If nk troops were expected to be effective, for example. Well supplied, well trained...with military rather than political goals to achieve...that would be one thing. Cannon fodder...another.
In Ukraine or DPRK, those grunts -- and I use that word loosely -- are indeed toast. Whether on the Korean Peninsula or in the flatlands of Ukraine, they will be hungry and carrying outdated weaponry, led by General Shoeshine who gives not one fuck about them, with an air force that can not or will not give them honest CAS/BAI, with rounds that may or may not fire when triggered, with civilians who are sullen if not actively opposed, and with drones chasing them down into the trenches they've dug themselves for convenient burial. Just add lime.
Military vs political goals, well, Clausewitz pointed out that its much of a muchness. Kinda like energy and matter being equivalent and transferable, so too are political and military goals. If the military fails, the political end goes south. If the politics succeed, the military need not be used at all.
