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Originally Posted by ravi12
Could you explain more on this.
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75-80% of the North Korean military is stationed within 100 miles of the DMZ. This means that they have no strategic depth. In short, kill the force at the DMZ and you could pretty well walk to the Chinese border. If the Chinese do decide to intervene on behalf of the North Koreans, that automatically gives them strategic depth ... all the way into China itself.
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Originally Posted by ravi12
which was what made the soviet the weaker hand in cuban missile crisis and so developed their mini versions of carriers. The soviets were practically ready to leave ocean dominance to US and stop only using the subs.
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You will note how concern we were about the BACKFIREs in Cuba.
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Originally Posted by ravi12
I guess the soviets could have competed with US in europe, but americas or probably tips of africa were no-gos for their armies.
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The Fulda Gap is in Europe.
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Aerial refueling means they cant challenge nato in open oceans and basically patrol their coast.
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No, they can come out and challenge the carrier battle groups as the Soviets did.