http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2309810.phpPace: N. Korea conflict would require ‘brute force’
The top U.S. military officer said Tuesday that if war broke out with North Korea, American fighters would have to rely on “more brute force” because much of their high-tech bombing equipment is tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“You need precision intelligence to drop precision munitions,” said Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “And a lot of our precision intelligence assets are currently being used in the Gulf region.”
That, he said, would mean “more brute force, wherever we might have to go next, than it would be if we weren’t already involved in the war we have going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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Pace told reporters that even with 200,000 military people in the Gulf region, the United States still has “2 million folks who can start protecting this nation anywhere else we need them to — tomorrow, if we need them to.”
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