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France is sending 15 soldiers, Germany 13. Not sure how much the other countries are sending, but at that rate, they seem to expect a US invasion force of 100 p
by xg15 10mo ago
France is sending 15 soldiers, Germany 13. Not sure how much the other countries are sending, but at that rate, they seem to expect a US invasion force of 100 people and probably a few dogsleds?
- ginko 10mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire_force?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire_force?useskin=vector
- pjc50 10mo agoThe above comment referencing Guns of August has it: the point is not to put up significant resistance, but, like the Minnesotans, force the US invasion force to have to kill or capture them in a way that produces as much negative publicity as possible if they do want to take Greenland.
- arethuza 10mo agoIt only takes one soldier to down an incoming US transport aircraft with a MANPAD?
- pjc50 10mo agoOk, and then what happens, Sun Tzu?
- arethuza 10mo agoI have no idea - nothing good, that's clear.
- Dah00n 10mo agoThe end of the US as we know it happens. Sure the US could win a war ("win"), but the US without US Europe trade, EU turning to China as its main trading partner including in military equipment, no more bases in EU, less access to other parts of the world, and so on. That would be a US that would wither and die.
- jandrewrogers 10mo agoMANPADS are designed to be used against small CAS aircraft. Attacking large transport aircraft effectively requires a considerably larger air defense system. That also assumes you can move a MANPADS within range; the US already controls a large military airfield on Greenland.
- recursivecaveat 10mo agoIndeed the key point is to make sure it is not a bloodless operation. Maybe some pictures of dead white people on the TV will short circuit the part of the republican brain that worships strongmen.
- dragonwriter 10mo agoThe US has done this historically for allies, too, a small deployment along with a public reiteration of a defense commitment isn't saying the troops are intended to be sufficient to resist a threat, it is intended to show that going from threat to war means war with not just the territory attacked, but the power deploying (even small) forces, and potentially all of their available capabilities. This is especially the case when the tripwire force is deployed by a nuclear power on the territory of a non-nuclear power facing a conventional threat from a nuclear power.