North Korea’s ICBM and Breaking Twenty-First-Century Trench Warfare

*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. What primary capability has each American adversary invested heavily in over the past decade? (Hint: it’s not better bayonets.) Standoff fires of all kinds. Russian long-range artillery. A Chinese carrier-killing missile. Iranian short- and medium-range strike capabilities. And most prominently,…