Posted on Dec 31, 2017
When Gen. Douglas MacArthur Put the Hurt on North Korea
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Say what you will pro or con he did know how to put together a successful military landing.
When Gen. Douglas MacArthur Put the Hurt on North Korea
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Korea
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Korean War
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Based on the merits of this article, with MacArthur in charge, the Allies were winning. When Truman relieved him of command, the war bogged down to a stalemate, the repercussions of which we see to this day.
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The North Koreans were too busy trying to reduce the Pusan Perimeter to worry about their rear. Their failure to garrison Seoul-Inchon was a master stroke but US troops crossing the 38th was something the Chinese had warned us about. That was our disaster.
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SSgt Donald Libby
Agree. It was a disaster of our own making and should have been seen as a probability but our military and civilian leaders (MacArthur and Truman principally in my opinion) ignored it because of the tremendous "headway" the UN forces (Americans) were making towards the North.
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SSG Edward Tilton
It was MacArthur and Congress, He was inflated by command of the UN Forces. Truman had served under MacArthur and thought him incompitent. I feeling he he shared with Eisenhower
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MacArthur was a disaster during the Japanese attack. His troops were starving before the Japanese came to Bataan. The Navy didn't want him in the Theater at all. They felt that all they needed was a few island bases and a lot of bombers.
Inchon was a master stroke that captured the North Korean Army. The Chinese warned us that if US troops crossed the 38th Parallel they would intervene. Boy did they, The entire 8th Army was surrounded. If not for the threat of nuclear attack it would have been the largest defeat in American Military ever had. Eisenhower was a pacifist who never actually engaged in combat but he was an organizational genius. I don't see either as "great" warriors
Inchon was a master stroke that captured the North Korean Army. The Chinese warned us that if US troops crossed the 38th Parallel they would intervene. Boy did they, The entire 8th Army was surrounded. If not for the threat of nuclear attack it would have been the largest defeat in American Military ever had. Eisenhower was a pacifist who never actually engaged in combat but he was an organizational genius. I don't see either as "great" warriors
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