Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fraction of their efficiency. They are, in effect, by being confined to the narrow area of the battleground of Korea . . . merely performing that function which would be regarded as tactical support of the infantry line. The great strategic concept of stopping the supplies to troops, of preventing the buildup of troops . . . the disorganization of transportation lines-all of the uses which . . . Navy and air are supposed to do-are not permitted over there...
...forces did not sit back and wait for the next blow. They sent out patrols and powerful armored forces to seek out and harry the enemy, disrupt his buildup. In the center, the U.N. forces actually pushed their main line forward several thousand yards, to give the scouting and harassing parties a more favorable advance base...
...ominous as the buildup of enemy ground forces was an aggressive show of Red air strength. In the biggest aerial combats of the war, Communist planes struck tellingly at U.N. raids on Red supply lines (see The Air War). Would enemy aircraft next be thrown against U.N. ground forces, or strike at U.N. airfields? The possibility plainly worried U.N. commanders. The dismissal of Douglas MacArthur had not dismissed the ugly fact that across the Yalu the air-power nests were safe from punishment...
...there was no lack of confidence in Ridgway or in the morale and fighting caliber of the Eighth Army. Before he was boosted into MacArthur's jobs, Ridgway had expressed confidence that the Communist offensive could be contained and beaten back. But in the light of the Red buildup which the Air Force seemed unable to smash, military Washington was beginning to wonder...
...Communist buildup of battle strength continued-in Korea and beyond Korea-the prospect of a massive Red strike against the U.N. forces became constantly more imminent. Allied intelligence had tracked three Chinese armies-100,-ooo men, more or less-up from South China to Manchuria, and from Manchuria to Korea. The number of enemy troops in Korea had increased to an estimated 600,000. Of these, the number immediately in front of Ridgway's units had dwindled from 150,000 to 115,000-indicating the classic Communist pullback for regrouping before an offensive...