Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said the United States is ready to fight a conventional ground war on the Korean peninsula if needed, despite draining conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pentagon has wisely long kept itself ready for a sudden conflict with North Korea, where loss of life would likely be massive. One of the best studies I have seen on how a new Korean war would go appeared in the Atlantic in 2005. The only good thing that could come of such a conflict would be the end of the North Korean regime, which now probably can no longer count on China to save it from destruction if war erupts.
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Since 2001, writer Mark Kukis has traveled widely throughout the Middle East and South Asia to report on the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and Iraq. Kukis has written for TIME, the New Republic and Salon. Before that, Kukis was a White House correspondent for United Press International. He currently lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
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