North Korea fires a missile towards US warship!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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It has just been reported that a missile landed just off of the beam of the frigate USS Knight and the pentagon is considering the appropriate response...
 

What's to consider?

The skipper, who should and could, have defended the ship if there was a genuine threat, should be relieved of command.

(If their was no genuine threat there is no problem)
 

This Idiot that runs N. Korea is going to step into some Deep Chit before long. If he keeps on trying to incite an international incident, he may find that even the Chinese government is fed up, and he will be "toppled". Just a few days ago, his government sent out messages trying to prepare his people for yet another major Famine. 99% of the people of N. Korea are little more than Slaves.
 
Laurie said:
What's to consider?

The skipper, who should and could, have defended the ship if there was a genuine threat, should be relieved of command.

(If their was no genuine threat there is no problem)
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I'm sure that a skipper of a Navel vessel does not have complete authorization to act, in Global power politics. The potential for starting an ugly "international incident" is high. Such provocations towards military vessels near hostile countries is how many wars start. One that comes to mind is the Tonkin Gulf incident, which is generally attributed to being the pretext to escalating the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
 
Actually this was supposed to be an April Fool joke, and I posted this before catching the news that the suckers fired a missile, but not at a US ship...
 
tnthomas said:
I'm sure that a skipper of a Navel vessel does not have complete authorization to act, in Global power politics. The potential for starting an ugly "international incident" is high. Such provocations towards military vessels near hostile countries is how many wars start. One that comes to mind is the Tonkin Gulf incident, which is generally attributed to being the pretext to escalating the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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Interesting that you should mention the Gulf of Tonkin incident. I worked with a guy who claimed to be aboard that ship at the time, and his stories about that "attack" varied somewhat from what our media reported. He said that the N Vietnamese boats all bore a very striking resemblance to surplus WWII US torpedo boats, and there was only a brief exchange of gunfire.with little or no damage to either the Maddox, or the "gunboats". After hearing his stories, I often wondered if this "incident" was LBJ's excuse to involve the US in that war....much like GWB's claims of WMD's in Sadaam Husseins hands.

In 2005, an NSA report on this Incident was declassified, and that report pretty much verified what my old workmate said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#Declassified_documents
 
The captain of a naval vessel has complete and actual power including life and death, to defend his ship, at least they do in our navy and doubt if it is different anywhere in the world.

On the subject of the Cold War, I can remember flying over the North Atlantic in the 60s when we came across the Sverdlov somewhere we did not expect to see her her.

It was a bit uncanny to see every weapon on the ship tracking us as we flew around photographing every antenna and protuberance in case there was anything new!
 
Reminds me of the USS Pueblo, which North Korea still holds as a trophy.
 

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