The following article by Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay was posted on the New York Times website Janaury 14, 2018:
WASHINGTON — Across the military, officers and troops are quietly preparing for a war they hope will not come.
At Fort Bragg in North Carolina last month, a mix of 48 Apache gunships and Chinook cargo helicopters took off in an exercise that practiced moving troops and equipment under live artillery fire to assault targets. Two days later, in the skies above Nevada, 119 soldiers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division parachuted out of C-17 military cargo planes under cover of darkness in an exercise that simulated a foreign invasion. Continue reading “Military Quietly Prepares for a Last Resort: War With North Korea”