Stopping a North Korean Invasion: Why Defending South Korea Is Easier than the Pentagon Thinks

Michael O'Hanlon is a fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and is Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His most recent book is How to Be a Cheap Hawk: The 1999 and 2000 Defense Budgets (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, forthcoming 1998); he also contributed two chapters to a recent volume edited by Mike Mochizuki, Toward a True Alliance: Restructuring US.-Japan Security Relations (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997).