The Death of an Alliance, Part 52: Thirty Days

The Air Force, via  USFK Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Garry Trexler,  speaking at a public lecture, has given the South Korean Defense Ministry thirty days to find it some training range space, or see the air component relocated. 

I’ll go that one further:  if the air cover leaves, the ground forces leave, too.  With the exception of small Special Forces and SEAL teams, the U.S. military fights combined arms warfare.  Take away the air cover and we go home.  I also think that we’d avoid keep a foot in the door through 2007, to see if competent people win the next election.  Unfortunately, once you eliminate Uri and all political parties whose spokemen  throw around idle coup threats, you run out of options fast.