U.S. Forces Are Expected To Fight Underground In Any Second Korean War

Above, at top and below — U.S. soldiers train in tunnels. U.S. Army photos

Kris Osborn, War Is Boring/Scout Warrior: In a Second Korean War, U.S. Troops Will Fight Underground

U.S. Army looks at new tactics and ways to communicate.

U.S. Army war planners and weapons developers have been increasing efforts to fast-track networking technologies for soldiers operating underground in tunnel complexes and in dense urban environments.

While the Army created entities such as its Rapid Equipping Force to address fast-emerging threats, the prospect of major ground war on the Korean peninsula has taken on increased urgency in recent months.

“We have been looking at Korean peninsula ops,” Col. John Lanier Ward, REF director, told Scout Warrior in an interview.

This scenario has a particular influence on the REF — which exists to identify soldier combat needs, create requirements and work with industry and Army program developers to identify quick, often interim technologies that can have an immediate result.

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WNU Editor: Tunnels along the DMZ will have to be taken out. But I still believe that if a future North Korean war does break out, much of the U.S. focus will be on using air assets to take out North Korean missile launchers and sites.