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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
We have far more than 34k troops near our top two trading partners, which are our northern and southern neighbors and they pose no threat whatsoever. So. Korea has a pretty large military on its own and I have no doubt they'd prevail against the North, even if they had to fight them without Japan's or our help. But that doesn't mean there are no consequences in it for us. If deterring the North required something like 500k troops, then I'd say we need to review that one. But 34k troops are just a tripwire force. They're a symbol of our commitment should anything happen there and that alone keeps bad things from happening. I think it's a good bang for the buck. Any failure of that deterrent would immediately cost more than 100 yrs. of keeping those troops there.
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A good trip wire is 1k logistics folks keeping the airbases and harbors open way down south.
I've been to Korea a bunch, know many guys who have pulled garrison duty there. It blows, not the country, the duty.
I would also bring everyone but the loggies home from Okinawa. Sorry, but we spent way too much of our countries wealth on projects long since past the stage of utility.
I blame military hubris: how can I make general if we pull out of Oki
