Condoleeza Rice says we will defend Japan if necessary. How can we be in more than one "war" at a time?

Question

Is this part of some International terrorist strategy to scatter the USA resources areound the globe so that we will be unable to defend ourselves? How do we stop the madness!

Answer 1

One word... Draft.

Answer 2

The US military wouldn't really need anymore troops to defend Japan. There are already close to 50,000 US military personnel stationed at military bases in Japan (remember that Japan has been occupied by the US military since the end of WW2 for close to 70 years).
Plus the North Korea has an almost non-existent navy so the threat of North Korea invading Japan is non-existent and defending Japan would not involve any land invasions and conventional troops. The only possible way North Korea can attack the Japanese mainland is with ballistic medium range missiles and possibly long-range artillery (not likely). Defending Japan from conventional military attacks wouldn't be that diffcult for the US. (Remember that the US has at least 2 of thier 10 carier battle groups operating in the Sea of Japan)
The same cannot be said about South Korea which shares a land border with the North.
Condi's statement was a veiled threat aimed at the North Korean regime. She wanted to reassure the Japanese that the US will be willing to strike North Korea with a nuclear weapon if the North attacks Japan with a nuclear device. It is a serious deterent.
This reassures Japan not to pursue building their own nuclear arsenal (Japan has more than 50 active nuclear stations and has the capability to develop more than 100 nuclear bombs within a few months).
Any form of Japanese rearmament will be seen as a threat to regional giant, China and will result in a massive arms build-up in China as well.
What comes next?? Cold War 2, or better yet, WW3!!!

Answer 3

We used to have the policy and ability to fight two and a half major wars. That means two separate theaters. Like Europe and Asia (WWII). Now with reductions in our budget we can support one major war and several smaller actions.

Put simply, we would be forced to pull some troops from non combat zones and put them into Korea. By the way, we have a huge force sitting in Korea right now and have since the 1950's. The Korean War (or police action) never ended. There was a cease fire, but no peace treaty.

Depending on the exact situation, we might have to draft, but I think that that would be an extreme situation.

Answer 4

Defending Japan would be a job for Aegis destroyers equipped to shoot down missiles. And also promising to nuke North Korea if NK nukes Japan, so Japan doesn't need to develop it's own deterrent. So it won't use many troops or the same forces used in Iraq

Answer 5

Rice is a poor Sec. of State. She should go back to working in Stanford University and answering phones at the Public Broadcasting Service.

Rumsfield needs to be let go for his poor choices because we can't have our troops perishing in the field while pisspoor decisions are being made in Washington DC. Either Fight the war and get it overwith or get the hell out immediately.

The US needs to reinstate the draft OR get the hell out of these countries. Our troops deserve the backing of our leaders and population. Politicians should not be running the war and trying to win the hearts and minds of their constituants every two years by showing them happy Iraqi babies from the warfront. What we need is to beat the enemy and get the hell out of these places. If we can't do this, we don't belong there - our leadership sucks bigtime for not realizing this.

Answer 6

You have some good answers there.
I just hope a Nuke doesn't go off near an aircraft carrier, that's a lot of sailors.
Mind you, it wouldn't necessarily be a N.Korean nuke...

As far as stopping the madness, it's up to us to focus on what's real and what's not real, something that's not been done in 6 years now.
Time to focus.
Vote in November.

Answer 7

Um.......We were in the war in Europe and the War in Japan during the 40's. We are certainly more capable today to handle this crisis than we were back then. The only way we can shut down north Korea is to allow them to blackmail us to agree to feed all their people,which of course will be sidelined to build their armament even larger. We're not stupid.

Answer 8

We did it before. It was called WWII. At the time it wasn't called that. They fought in the Pacific and Europe. And no, we won't need a draft. We have plenty of people in the military. There were more people fighting in WWII than we would need to finish both wars if we got into another one.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

love the hair ms Ruth ya world war two amirca had her armies
in germany defending russia and italy then northkorea got crappy with south korea and that wasnt even over whrn the war in veitnam started
so I think the good ol us of a can hold her own, but thats my opinion good question

Answer 11

If Japanese were smart enough they would not fall in this situation first. The moral of the story is that all those Karate, Ninja and old wise man stuff are parts of a Japanese halucination.