European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Must enlist Eastern allies in Korea crisis stalinist North Korea watched the Way scr Bia riddled the a great Powers of the West a a Promise Here a false Concession there a and proceeded to use the same technique on the a great Powers of the East. Duplicity worked again years of hand wringing diplomacy gave North Korea time to produce enough fissionable material for perhaps a half dozen nuclear bombs. We must now decide whether to continue the protracted runaround hoping vainly that Kim 11 Sung wants Only to be bought off or to enforce International Law a which would require the credible threat of War. We have seen How the Lack of such resolve failed in the West now we will see if we can make our threat believable in the East. Once again the United states will take the Lead in trying to marshal the forces of its allies. Under color of a . Security Council Resolution we will seek to. Coerce the nuclear lawbreaker by Means of economic sanctions. That Means blockade. Japan must Stop the flow of hard cur Rency remittances to the dictatorship from its korean residents. China and South Korea must close their Borders to All Trade with North Korea including vital Oil. And . Armed forces must interdict the sea Supply of Pyongyang. North Korea has said it would consider any of that an act of War. That a accurate a blockade even Euphe mixed As a a sanctions and legitimated by world bodies is an act of War. What would North Korea with strangulation in Prospect then Doone alternative is the one we Hope for to recognize that the world s threat of War is credible and to a join the family of  because no More reactor Roulette would be tolerated the North would Back Down before its plutonium could be developed into bombs and placed on missiles being built to threaten Seoul Tokyo and Shanghai. The North a other alternative is the one we dread to launch korean War ii and invade the South. That would engage the United states with 37,000 troops on hand to Back up longstanding treaty commitments we would then be in a real War with an enemy that fought us to a standstill two generations ago. What should the United states do to give Kim ii Sung incentives to end nuclear blackmail and admit inspectors first get absolute Public assurances from Japan that no leakage will be permitted and that it will wage eco some things for a generation of warriors june 6, 1944, was the defining Day from which their combat experience was measured. My brother part of Xix corps 247th combat engr in landed in Normandy at d plus six Days. For my brother in Law part of xxx corps 3rd Cav group it was d plus 62 Days. But those who landed on a Day itself were a special Breed. Of the some 175,000 american Canadian and British forces who landed that first Day an estimated 4,900 were killed or wounded in the initial assault. . Forces included the glider and Parachute infantry of the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions who were the first to land the soldiers of the foot Mobile 1st inf div and 29th inf div of the Mary land Virginia National guard who came ashore at Omaha Beach and the infantrymen of the 4th inf div who landed at Utah Beach. Remarkably with the reduction from the 92 divisions of world War ii to the 12-division soon to be 10-division army of today All of the a Day divisions remain on the Active Rolls of the army. But they have undergone significant chances. Only the National guard s my lot div remains a foot Mobile hit i Mmry division As it was in 1944. Both the 1st and 4th inf divisions Are now mechanized divisions closer in Structure and armament to a world War ii armoured  nomic War. Russia should also announce its intention to isolate the nuclear outlaw. Second Tell South Korea that its Days of appeasement and complacency Are Over a no More Only 4 percent of Gnu for defense a and full scale mobilization is in order its forces would Bear the Brunt of the first attack As . Bombers destroy the North a nuclear potential. Third reach an understanding with China that neutrality is not enough if the North besieged Seoul allies expect chinese a a volunteers to Stream across the Yalu to threaten North koreans capital. Nice work if you can do it especially that Long teach about China threatening its traditional communist ally. But the United states is not helpless in leading the Eastern Powers toward posing a threat to North Korea Strong enough to discourage War. President Clinton could say to the allies a if you Are with us we Are with you. Quot together we can pose the immensely credible threat if that does no to work a if we Are dealing with madmen a together we can make Short work of the  on the other hand he could say a you Are not doing us a favor. If you Are not with us in stopping nuclear spread Here and now a we re out of the far East. Work out your own collective Security and Good  if China Japan Russia and South Korea Are not worried about enforcing International Law to protect those cities from nuclear missiles Why should we Pul our troops at risk the United states should join willing allies to intervene strongly a or else extricate itself fast. If our leadership of proliferation police is rejected we should await better leaders there and Here we can use the savings from troops drawn Down to build a space shield thereby protecting America from the next decades nuclear bandits. We share a vital interest with every civilized nation in stopping the spread of nukes. But if our allies East or West dither or choose isolation we should wish them c new York times remain same in m Tian an infantry division. Gliders arc dog gone and while the 82nd airborne in still relies on the Parachute the 101st airborne div has become a Cliborne air assault division. Could they do today what they did Hen without a doubt the answer is yes is proved by the performance of Nany of these ame divisions in he persian Gulf Var. Once again lir Power would e the essential prelude. Field marshal Erwin Rommel he German Cora Nander in nor Nandy and Iraq s Saddam Hussein faced the same problem where would the initial invasion occur their solutions were remarkably the same. Screen the entire area with Forward deployed forces hut keep your Armor in Reserve of counterattack und destroy the invasion Sites ruin they were revealed. Bat in both caws the Armor Reserve was porn in cd by Allied an Power. Another Point of Sim Duniy would be the use of airborne forces to do nip in Erna de tenses. Harry g. Summers this time however the  of p into forces would be in cited to it pern operations teams dropped far behind enemy lines As the were during the Gulf War to disrupt enemy lines of communication. Instead of Parachute and glider landings As in 1944, those forces would arrive in the Gulf through Cliborne air assault. A. After the arnhem drop in september 1944, memorialized As a a Bridge too far a deep Parachute operations were never a again conducted. A a both the drops in Korea and Vietnam were shallow for fear that linkage with reinforcing ground troups could not be achieved quickly enough. As an alternative helicopter air assault operations were pioneered in Vietnam and refined in the persian Gull there the 101st airborne div air assault launched the deepest air assault in military history some 175 Miles behind iraqi lines to seize crossing Sites Over the euphrates River. But while the Parachute skills of the 82nd airborne div May be questionable today the unit s prowess As Light infantry would be As indispensable now As in 1944. A it was the infantry advancing Yard by Vard licit ecu cd the he Silica a and in  of the h i of lip Arifur and Ari Kra units . In the Gull year it was the Iafa Norv a again the Soldi in the 1st Ini div a who made the initial breath of the iraqi defences to allow v 1 Boros armoured divisions to move through and launch the main attack. One major difference Between the a Day landings then and now would be the role of the . Marines. This time the three Marine divisions would undoubtedly play a major part. In 1944, however the entire Marine corps was engaged against Japan in the Pacific where they refined amphibious operations to a Fine Art. They Are still masters of that Art and although their amphibious task Force did not make a seaborne assault in the Gulf War its credible threat to do so tied Down several iraqi divisions another major difference would be the use of electronic warfare to develop the Battlefield. While the cracking of the German code in world War ii gave the allies a major advantage today a electronic warfare operations have revolutionized the Battlefield giving the commander real time intelligence and the ability for almost instantaneous reaction. But the More tilings change the More they remain the. Same. A Day is still the defining Day for America s men and women in Aims. I  All the changes in the past 50 year., it is still their bravery Ami dedication that make the critical Dit pc re Nee. I William Safire