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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
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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I was just wondering, how different the strategic depth would be if you had directly invaded china? Being a non-military person, I am frankly unable to grab the finer nuances between these two.
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You will note how concern we were about the BACKFIREs in Cuba.
The Fulda Gap is in Europe.
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which was what I was alluding to, they needed a land base near the fighting area, cuba provided it - US could enforce a blockade on cuba, but SUs hand was tied. Reinforcements of weapons/ russian soldiers would have been difficult.
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No, they can come out and challenge the carrier battle groups as the Soviets did.
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did they challenge the CBGs in open seas? Interesting, may I know what ships/subs were they operating?
I knew that their subs trialled the CBGs almost continuously.