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Originally Posted by The_Blur
The fact is that North Korea will make a horrible enemy for American forces, and we need to be aware of this before we talk about bombing them into submission.
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Bombing has never worked to make a nation submit. It did not work in the Second World War on Germany or Japan, the Korean War, Vietnam, Afghanistan, or any other war for that matter.
You win a war by walking up to the other guy (if you have not killed them first) and saying, "Give me your gun".
And that takes significant forces on the ground. Just like the Marines did on Iowa Jima.
Ya, you can argue that the Nukes made the Japanese surrender. I think what it did was bring them to their senses earlier than if it had not happened. The US had already bombed them into the dark ages long before they Nuked them.
Even if the US had 10 nukes, or a 100 nukes, If the emperor had not said quit, it would have cost the US dearly to invade and secure the Japanese homeland.
There is nothing to suggest that the Japanese of 1945 where anymore or any less brainwashed and loyal than the NK's today.
It would be a bloody war on both sides, with significant civilian losses.