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The Variables of OPCON: One Wartime OPCON Transition, Multiple Plans

Across several transition plans, the South Korea-U.S. alliance has devised different types of command structures to follow the wartime OPCON...

Clint Work

For Korean progressives, obtaining wartime OPCON means “restoring sovereignty.” For conservatives, a a U.S.-led command architecture is what...

As it has for decades, the South Korea-U.S. alliance must grapple with the inherently contradictory distortions of the control rod logic.

The control rod logic, while not outwardly promoted by U.S. officials, had reemerged to shape the process around the status of wartime OPCON.

At a time of growing U.S.-China competition, the purpose of the alliance is once again becoming a subject of contention.