sould the U.S preemptive defence strategy?
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A preemptive strategy is good, if we were under a direct, and serious threat from a foreign power.\n\nMost nations have a preemptive strike strategy if they feel they are under threat. It is a good stategy, but one that shouldn't be abused.
474243
Good idea, nuke them before they nuke us
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There are none.  The idea of pre-emptive strike is totally illogical.  If I thought that a police officer was going to engage in unjust brutality against me, should I be allowed to preemptively shoot him to prevent this?\n\nSimilarly, war based on nothing more that a hunch is foolish.
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It'll be a chain reaction, Iran nukes Israel, Israel has time to fire off retaliatory strike, US jumps in to protect Israel, N. Korea seizes the opportunity to invade the south while the US is busy and stretched thin, so too does the People's Chinese Army takes over Taiwan, In order to stop Korea with limited manpower, US uses tactical nukes, in response China lofts to continental US targets, automatic triggers in US Strategic Command send nukes toward China....can you live thru all this....hmmm, maybe if you join stnglove in his deep silo.
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Not as good as ours but effective. We have a huge advantage on the seas. We have a larger, more advanced, and better equipt navy. Our Army has the Abrahm's tank which was designed to kill Russian tanks, so it is almost impossible for them to kill. We actually have body armor, better infantry equiptment, better mechanized forces. Our fighter Aircraft are about 30 years more advanced than the other two. Starting with the f-15 The most powerful fighter ever, capable of shooting 6 missles at one press of a button. F-18 best navy fighter big payload and strong Air to Air capabilities. Artilery we have the Radar equipt artilleries which have immense range and impact. Missles we've got the cruise missle capable of carring nuclear warheads launched from navy and air. Best Nuclear arsenal in the world Subs with the capability to destroy any country in the world by itself. But china has alot of Men that is all they have against us. Russia is dead scared of us we are so much more powerful than them both.\n\nJust wait for the F-22 and the JSF the two best fighters ever made to hit the battlefield. And we've got the B-1 and stealth aircraft.
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Large standing armies,in the case of Kim ill.He would probably fold if we launched on him though.Until we can get our missile defense up a little better it is just too much of a risk to take.Besides as long as we can buy him cheaper than we can fight him we are better off.\nIn the case of China I think we are probably using the best possible strategy.Turn their economy toward capitalism and away from communism and we might wind up with one of the strongest allies we have ever had.\nThe sad part is none of this stuff works in the Mid-East.They have a different kind of mentality,like kamikazes.They value power and clever deceit,and if you have no will to use force they will never respect you.That's why they call us the paper tiger.
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Whatever you are planning : military attack or business\nI think you need to read "The Art of the War" by Sun Tzu.
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Find a wasp's nest and hit it with a stick.  If the wasps become angry, explain that you are bringing them freedom and hit the nest again with greater force and frequency.\n\nSound foolish?\n\nAny more then this country's policies in Iraq?\n\nThere is a valid (if twisted) point to the approach you suggest, however.  For most a human history, military campaigns were staggeringly successful compared to modern day ones.  Take the USSR if Afghanistan or the US in Viet Nam or Iraq:  These wars COULD be won as quickly and decisively as wars of old (the whole mid-east went from Christan to Muslim in two generations) but to do so requires the sort of tactics that were employed back then.  UTTER DECIMATION.  Barbarity on a scale that a world with Internet and TV doesn't allow for.\n\nThe Romans were in a very similar situation in Judea.  A gorilla war that couldn't be subdued through force without utterly destroying the territory.  So they did.  This is what would be required to bring the situation in Iraq under control but I'd like to think we wouldn't do that.\n\nBest to keep out of their country and let them kill each other.  They're going to anyhow...
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Deterrence theory is a defensive strategy developed after World War I and used throughout the Cold War. It also figures somewhat in the current War on Terrorism. Under the strategy, a government builds up or maintains military forces and weapons so that other powers will not attack it in fear of a larger retaliation. John Foster Dulles elaborated that “The heart of the problem is how to deter attack. This... requires that a potential aggressor be left in no doubt that he [or she] would... suffer damage outweighing any possible gains from aggression.”[1] Deterrence is viewed by some as the opposite of appeasement, where an expansionist government is allowed to absorb some territory to reach a negotiated settlement. (See Munich Agreement) Deterrence can be based on either WMD's, conventional weapons strength, or both.
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This is an awesome question. I see what you mean by the tactics. Iran is surrounded. I think it may have been just dumb luck though.
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We have an ace in the hole called nuclear submarines.  If on the unlikely occurrence that the US is wiped out in a nuclear strike, these guys will roam around until they get close to the offending countries then launch and obliterate them.  This is called (and I kid you not) the MAD policy for Mutual Assured Destruction.  Russia has these subs too, I am not sure if China has them.  Russia also has a system that if we were to obliterate them that will start a countdown then launch everything they have at once.\n\nThese are the cold war fail safes to make sure we did not attack each other since an attack on one would be suicide to the other.  So since the consequences for a first strike are so dire, we really don't have to worry about a nuclear attack from those countries.\n\nBut if it were to happen, just go to some of the cold war shelters and cross your fingers and pray.  There are plenty of fall out shelters around and certain civic buildings are required to be fall out safe.  No doubt about it, if the bombs start flying there will be one great fireworks show from space.
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Unfortunately yes. We will not suffer another country (that is so full of terroristic groups) to possess nuclear weapons. The threat to our country would be too great, considering we are not well liked (for various reasons). I think a pre-emptive strike will happen in the near future, though the cost of it (economically, politically, and diplomatically) will be immense.
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America COULD, if she wanted, become a fortress effectively defending herself on the four horizon points from any infiltration, or attack.\n\nBut globalism and unchecked alien invasion has rendered this hypothesis a waste of time. \n\nThe Congressional sale has been going on for decades, and it's near midnite, don't you know.
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special weapons and tactics
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they were planning the invasion of iraq way before 9/11
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They were planning this war before 9/11!
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/\n\nlist of FM's.