The next war that the United States fights could see hostilities erupt in the American homeland, according to the Army’s top two leaders. “The homeland really isn’t a sanctuary anymore,” said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth during a March 15 interview with the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think tank. “If we were to get in a real shooting war, our homeland would be part of the theater.” The comments came amid a discussion of the role of the U.S. Army in the Indo-Pacific, and as tensions rise between aggressive regional powers such as China and North Korea with the democratic nations of Japan and South Korea. Wormuth said that the United States’ nuclear arsenal was key to preventing a war from erupting out of those tensions, even as the United States pivots some of its attention to Russia’s war in Ukraine. “An important part of maintaining deterrence in this day and …