Members of a military honour guard hold the flags of participating nations during a ceremony of U.N. Forces Participation Day event marking the 67th Anniversary of the Korean War armistice agreement, in Seoul, South Korea, on July 27, 2020. Chung Sung-jun/Getty Images
Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”