April 2018--Korea, Historically Troublesome?
by John T. Kuehn
All eyes, or at least many eyes, are focused on Korea these days, especially its northern component. Recently, I, too, wrote about a war that might erupt, although not the one many forecaste. https://taskandpurpose.com/china-russia-2020-war/
125 years ago Korea entered the spotlight of military history, for the first time for many westerners, during the Sino-Japanese War, a war about who would come to dominate Korea. Japan won that one, but it only caused another power to intervene, Russia. Another war was fought a few years