Cambodia Fighting Midget

Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (C4) Capabilities. Our top warfighting deficiency is the inability to quickly plan and execute to the full extent of our capabilities because of inadequate theater C4. Basic classified network access, capacity in routers and servers, bandwidth, and updated applications all fall short of what we need for small scale contingencies (SSCs), and well short of major theater war (MTW) requirements. Using manpower rather than technology for gathering and formatting data, slows the speed of command at all levels -- Joint Task Force, CINC, Joint Staff and National Command Authority -- and overextends staffs. With its heavy demands on detailed information that must be shared at all levels of command and among coalition partners, our information infrastructure must be funded and kept up to date for effective operations in the information age. Management of networks, to include spectrum, bandwidth, and information dissemination, is a mission of the wa ... [Read More]

Department of State Washington File: Text: Congressional Report on North Korean Threat

The major hurdle faced by the DPRK in maintaining its forces is the failing state of its economy. To this end, a range of public evidence points to a serious deterioration in North Korea's conventional arms war fighting capability, particularly in such critical areas as unit readiness, modernization, sustainability, and defense industrial capacity supporting conventional arms. ...

The 46,000-member North Korean navy is primarily a coastal defense force consisting of missile, torpedo, patrol craft, and submarines. The navy's numerous amphibious craft, attack and midget submarines assist in the insertion and extraction of special operations forces into South Korea and Japan. A number of these operations have been detected in recent years off of South Korea and Japan. ... [Read More]