U.S. Navy
James Holmes, War Is Boring: The U.S. Navy Can’t Fight North Korea Alone
A war would be painful and take place on the ground.
How can the U.S. Navy destroy North Korea should Washington give the word? It can’t. Or at least it stands little chance of doing so by its lonesome barring improbable circumstances. What the Navy can do is contribute to a joint or multinational campaign that destroys the northern regime or its armed forces. But even that would involve perils, hardships and steep costs.
It bears noting at the outset that destroy is a loaded term, connoting wholesale slaughter of a foe. It need not be so. For martial sage Carl von Clausewitz, destroying an opposing force means incapacitating it as a fighting force. “The fighting forces must be destroyed,” insists Clausewitz; “that is, they must be put in such a condition that they can no longer carry on the fight.” Disabling a hostile regime so it cannot resist our demands would likewise qualify.
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WNU Editor: A war on the Korean peninsula will be primarily a ground conflict .... the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force will primarily be assisting forces on the ground, and attacking North Korean positions behind the lines. But if nuclear weapons start to be used .... now that is a completely different conflict.
