A foolhardy idea would be to surreptitiously go there while some other action is happening elsewhere and tug it out.
Now, it’d be difficult to pull off and offers no upside and lots of downside, but it’d be very intrepid to pull off.
Now, it’d be difficult to pull off and offers no upside and lots of downside, but it’d be very intrepid to pull off.
They shoot at you? Honey badger don't care, there ain't no people there.
Google maps appears to confirm that: https://www.google.com/maps/place/USS+Pueblo/@39.0403653,125...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/max-hardberger...
Always interesting to be reminded of all of these incidents from past operations.
The value of invading another sovereign nation's territory in order to repatriate some hunk object that has purely symbolic value?
Hardly seems worth the cost and massive fallout that would ensure.
This is a really weird hair to try to split, given that the two words are essentially synonymous.
> When an army crosses a border into another country for battle, they are making an incursion into enemy territory. An incursion is an invasion as well as an attack.[0]
> [An incursion is] An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion[1]
> Invasion is a synonym for incursion in attack topic.[2]
...and so forth.
[0] https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/incursion
The Russians have incursions into our airspace and we do similarly to them.
We don’t call those “invasions”. An invasion is more physical in terms of control. When you invade you’re attempting to control an area with troops some time accompanied by non local pop. An incursion may result in extrication, surveillance or reconnaissance, those sorts of things.
Yes, but that's about politics and emotional connotation, not denotation.
Invasion is quite involved and usually requires troops to establish foothold and perhaps control over an area. We, the US invaded Grenada, even if it was just momentary. We established control, sent armed troops, etc. Flying reconnaissance over Havana is an incursion but not an invasion.
The US and Russians do legally conduct authorized reconnaissance flights over each other's airspace. This is authorized under the terms of the Open Skies Treaty and is specifically not an incursion.