In article ,
(John Schilling) wrote:

How do you jam a homing pigeon?

A twelve gauge.

But the other question you *didn't* ask is "how effective is a homing
pigeon?"

The DPRK is hopeless at economics, yes, but the NKPA does traditional
twentieth-century warfighting reasonably well.

Really? Who have they gone up against in the last twenty years? How
well did they do?

And are you gauging the pre-starvation NK military, or the current one?

North Korea, has had two generations to dig in and prepare for battle
with one specific adversary, on a 250 km front characterized by mountain
and storm. They know what they'll be facing on the first day of the
war, they are going to smash it hard, and we probably can't stop it.

If it ever happens. That "go" order is the hard one to get out, and
it's seeming less and less likely that they'd be able to give it under
*any* circumstances.

Doesn't mean they would *win*, just that it won't be Iraq all over again.

You're right. It might be shorter and less of a fight.

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