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red dog 1

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Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 19, 2024, 09:51 PM

Nov 19

Last edited Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:11 PM - Edit history (2)

I agree...a lot of them will end up as "cannon fodder;"
However, the soldiers from North Korea's 11th Corps, known as the Storm Corps, "are a unit trained in infiltration, infrastructure sabotage and assassinations"....They could do some serious damage, and, unlike the other North Korea soldiers, I don't think they fit the label "cannon fodder."

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North Korea may end up sending Putin 100,000 troops for war [View all] red dog 1 Nov 19 OP

Putin said it will be over in a couple of days? BOSSHOG Nov 19 #1

The war will be over by then. WarGamer Nov 19 #2

By when? red dog 1 Nov 20 #5

Before 100k NK soldiers would be on the battlefield. WarGamer Nov 20 #14

OK red dog 1 Nov 20 #15

I have to think a lot of them will be what was once termed "cannon fodder," given the lack of combat experience... hlthe2b Nov 19 #3

+ 1 red dog 1 Nov 19 #4

unmotivated, ill-equipped, inexperienced young troops bigtree Nov 20 #6

"They should not be perceived to be cannon fodder," says Mark Cancian, from the Center for Strategic and International red dog 1 Nov 20 #9

. bigtree Nov 20 #11

Sounds like an excellent opportunity for S. Korea Amishman Nov 20 #12

I read elsewhere that they are underweight/malnourished and not Greybnk48 Nov 20 #17

Putin is bdamomma Nov 20 #7

The majority Elessar Zappa Nov 20 #8

See Reply #9 red dog 1 Nov 20 #10

Training for combat and actual combat are 2 far different things. MarineCombatEngineer Nov 20 #13

When I was in my US Civil War stage... I remember reading a soldier of the day WarGamer Nov 20 #16