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What would taking care of the North Korea problem look like? Land invasion? We did that; it ended in a stalemate, and the circumstances of that result haven't r
by acjohnson55 10y ago
What would taking care of the North Korea problem look like? Land invasion? We did that; it ended in a stalemate, and the circumstances of that result haven't really changed.
Turkey should be concerned about whether its strategic value still exists as such. We could probably live without them in the post-Soviet world. They are certainly extremely useful to have in the fold, but Erdoğan should take care not to assume they're indispensable.
- argonaut 10y agoErrr... The US was fighting China in the Korean War. And the US military was not yet the undisputed global military superpower it is today. A land invasion of North Korea would almost certainly be successful, the casualties and cost is the unacceptable part.
- pluma 10y agoDepends on how you define success. Officially Afghanistan and Iraq were successes, but the messy "post-war" situation in Iraq was a major factor to the strength of ISIS. Modern warfare really seems to be less about the actual war and more about post-war occupation.
- argonaut 10y agoI meant actual success, obviously. North Korea is culturally homogenous, and culturally similar to South Korea. There is no comparison to Afghanistan and Iraq. It also goes without saying that if America was willing to fully occupy Iraq for a few more decades, I'm completely confident Iraq would be stable - the cost is ridiculously prohibitive, however.