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I found this book online and decided to read it out of a general sense of curiosity The Korean Peninsula is always a front page event with North Korea provoking some new fight with an outrageous threat or an actual use of deadly military force And if it is not politico military in nature it is a story of starvation in a surreal world cut off completely from the rest of humanity of North Koreans braving everything to escape the demonic tyranny of Kim Jong un or his father Kim Jong il before him Cordesman has exhaustively presented the political and military situation now and going forward from every perspective What does the US think and do in case of a crisis China Japan The lunatics in Pyongyang Or South Korea Or even Russia And what Cordesman makes very clear is that in the face of significant military growth especially by China and mutual distrust by all parties for each other allowing North Korea to launch a war would be cataclysmic for all involved for their economies for their very survival If you want to understand what is going on in this long troubled peninsula and what is it stake and and threats we all live under because of the extraordinarily evil cult of personality that rules North Korea read Cordesman s book 9781442225152
The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia describes the strategy force deployments and the military balance in potential current and future scenarios involving the Democratic People s Republic of Korea Republic of Korea People s Republic of China Japan and the United States The analysis in these volumes shows how tensions between the Koreas and the potential involvement of the China Japan Russia and the United States create a nearly open ended spectrum of possible conflicts These range from posturing and threats wars of intimidation to a major conventional conflict on the Korean Peninsula to intervention by outside powers like the United States and China to the extreme of nuclear conflict The analysis shows that the Korean balance is sharply affected by the uncertain mix of cooperation and competition between the United States and China The U.
PDF The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast asia pacific S rebalancing of its forces to Asia and the steady modernization of Chinese forces in particular the growth of Chinese sea air missile capabilities affect the balance in the Koreas and Northeast Asia They also raise the possibility of far intense conflicts that could extend far beyond the boundaries of the Koreas The Evolving Military Balance in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia Strategy Resources and Modernization Volume I CSIS Reports Volume I
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