THEIR SIOP

 The Single Integrated Operational Plan was called the SIOP and it was really nothing more than our plan to put warheads on foreheads in a highly formalized atomic fashion. It was the final pulling together of the Joint Forces to wage thermonuclear war against the USSR and China and maybe one or two other places. Ours has not gone away, it has been updated and renamed but it is still very much the planning document to ensure that our warheads find their ways to the proper targets in the event of a war.

I see that some people who ought to know better are still nattering about the state of our munitions and our general unreadiness to wage war against China. Yes, yes, I know, dead horse, thoroughly beaten already but I did want to point out that the country that can turn out 80,000,000 iphones in a couple of months probably has no trouble turning out 40,000,000 high end killer drones with 300 mile ranges and 250 pound warheads.

The goal of the SIOP was to bathe in fire targets that needed to be destroyed affirmatively. If one could achieve the same effect by applying precise 250 pound bombs directly to the actual target and not just the neighborhood or city, then the same effect is achieved without all the excess radiation.

This poses a logical mans thinking problem for the evening. Every single HQ and logistics warehouse and fuel dump in Asia and the Western Pacific is in a precise, down to the inch known location on a target map. The putative bad guys have 40,000,000 drones. The other bad apples north of the 38th are known to be making lots of drones of their own and furnishing to their very good friends in Moscow.

So, if you're the US Forces Korea Commander, the 8th Army Commander, the 2nd Infantry Division Commander and their staffs, where do you sleep at night? Kind of makes me wonder if anybody at all actually stays in the Blue House or any buildings at Osan, Pyeongtaek or Taegu.

I have developed a whole new appreciation for the CINCROKFLT Bunker. It is built into a mountain.

You know another place where the heads lie uneasy at night? Yeah, Taiwan is in easy flight range of 40,000,000 expendable killer drones.

It does make me wonder though. Just what the hell is our answer to those 40,000,000 drones? It is way passed time for our government to have passed this engineering problem to Elon Musk and his teams for resolution. All of the old pieties are in flux right now but the brutal truth always remains that nothing at all has ever come out of a government research lab without 40 years there of "development." 

It makes you wonder though, our rules are plain. We treat all weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, etc) as nuclear weapons and will retaliate if they are used against us. What possible form will retaliation take if drones alone are enough to execute a complete decapitation strike at just about every level of government overnight? 

Interesting times.