Korean War, The
Korean War, 1950-1953 Armed Forces Military participation United States History
Greenwood Press
2006
EISBN 9780313027710
Overview.
Phases and campaigns.
Preparing to fight.
Learning to be a soldier.
Learning to fight with World War II weapons.
Life on the front.
Care of the wounded and the dead.
Away from the front lines: division rear and the train.
View of friend and enemy.
Media, morale, and myths.
Carrying on.
Coming home.
Remembering war.
Conclusion : inheritances and myths.
Despite the American tendency to bypass it, the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 was a watershed in American history. It was in Korea, for the first time, that the United States committed its armed forces to limiting an expansion, by Communist forces, which many believed was designed to take over the world; it was also the first war that a world organization, the United Nations, played a military role. The conflict in Korea was a war that was fought in hardship and danger by the grunt, the man and woman in the field, bringing an end to the myth that possession of an atomic bomb made conventional w.
Phases and campaigns.
Preparing to fight.
Learning to be a soldier.
Learning to fight with World War II weapons.
Life on the front.
Care of the wounded and the dead.
Away from the front lines: division rear and the train.
View of friend and enemy.
Media, morale, and myths.
Carrying on.
Coming home.
Remembering war.
Conclusion : inheritances and myths.
Despite the American tendency to bypass it, the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 was a watershed in American history. It was in Korea, for the first time, that the United States committed its armed forces to limiting an expansion, by Communist forces, which many believed was designed to take over the world; it was also the first war that a world organization, the United Nations, played a military role. The conflict in Korea was a war that was fought in hardship and danger by the grunt, the man and woman in the field, bringing an end to the myth that possession of an atomic bomb made conventional w.
