Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please add my compliments to others received on the War in Asia section . . . One need not agree with every sentence to realize that it reflects high standards of journalistic enterprise and performance...
...that this is an especially terrible war. It is so for reasons which every American must understand if we are to grasp the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problem in Asia. Much of this war is alien to the American tradition and shocking to the American mind. For our men in Korea are waging this war as they are forced to wage it and as they will be forced to wage any war against the Communists anywhere in Asia...
...soldiers will continue to be forced to war in this fashion-until our political and military leaders acquire and apply an understanding of war in Asia that they have not as yet displayed in Korea. Above all, our leaders must grasp one quite simple fact: war against the Communists of Asia cannot be won-not really won-by military means alone...
...Politics. In some parts of Asia we would be hard put to it to find enough Americans who can speak the language and who know the ways of the country concerned. But this is not so in South Korea. We occupied it for nearly three years and in this time we should have accumulated a considerable staff of military and civilian officials who came to know the country, the people, the language...
...shooting was in Asia, and Asia was a long way from Europe. But Western Europe still embodied a frightening truth: if the Russians choose to risk all-out war with the U.S., they can roll through Western Europe like a color guard crossing a parade ground. With Mao's Chinese armies to protect their rear, the Russians could throw the better part of their 175 divisions,* 25,000 tanks and 19,000 warplanes into a sweep to the Atlantic...