At 09:08 PM 8/21/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>At 12:47 AM 8/14/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >Ever heard of "Military Intelligence Operations"?
>
>Only as an oxymoron. :)
>
> >If and when North Korea
> >wants to invade South Korea, they'll have to plan that invasion first. If
> >the US Military Intelligence people have done their jobs right, the US will
> >know about those plans well before the invasion starts.
>
>You act like the United States knew the events of 2 August 1990* were coming.
>
>JDG
>
>* - In March of 1990, the Northcoast Model United Nations Conference at
>Kent State - Ashtabula Campus in Ohio ran a mock UN Security Council Crisis
>where Iraq invaded Kuwait. This simulation is one of the only known
>predictions of an invasion.
One can make a case that the government did know (or should have suspected)
that the invasion was imminent. See Atkinson's Crusade or Trainor's The
General's War.
john
