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Nasty, brutish, and short ‐ what the next Korean War will look like
[QuartzMedia] ...An insurgency  Another lesson from the Middle East that might apply to North Korea is the need for counter-insurgency capabilities. Kelly notes that the North has hundreds of thousands of special troops "who really believe in the ideology" and Kim Jong-un as a "divine person." Such soldiers could fall back into the mountains, regroup, and stage attacks for years on a South Korean force that has no or little training in dealing with insurgencies. Fear of this possibility stems largely from the US experience in Iraq with Saddam Hussein loyalists, or "dead-enders," who continued staging deadly attacks well after their leader’s downfall. But as with everything in North Korea, it’s hard to know at this point how much of a threat this might be. Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2017-04-11 |
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