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...Frankfurt: When the U.S. first took the field against North Korean aggression, U.S. prestige was saved from annihilation. Had the U.S. ignored this aggression, Germans would have lost all confidence in its determination to resist Soviet aggression. But U.S. prestige remained in a precarious state of health until the Inchon landing...
...than to evidences of moral purity. While the U.S. was losing, Germans doubted it would ever be able to help them against aggression in Germany. Many sought Rűckversicherung (reinsurance) by signing Communist peace petitions, buying ads in Communist newspapers, reviving connections with East Germans and Russians. After Inchon, however, Germans could visualize for the first time substantial U.S. reinforcements against the threat of 300,000 crack Russian troops across the Elbe River. The latest Korean disaster has now scared many Germans into the belief that the U.S. will wear itself out in a full-scale war with China...
...secret high-level decision that Korea was no place to repair it. It was noteworthy that the Eighth Army made no effort to throw a defense line across the peninsula; Eighth Army spokesmen denied any commitment to defend Seoul; and heavy equipment was being loaded rapidly onto ships at Inchon. If Korea were in fact abandoned, it could be done without abandoning the policy of punishing aggression. Mao's China could be effectively punished elsewhere-for example, by blockade and bombardment of the China coast, and bombing of Manchurian industry...
According to the textbooks that was correct. MacArthur, however, relying on the combination of sea-air-ground power (as he had in scores of battles from New Guinea to Luzon) confounded the conservatives with the brilliant Inchon landing, the capture of Seoul and the consequent collapse of the North Korean army. In North Korea, he tried what he called a "massive compression envelopment" against greatly superior forces. He undoubtedly underestimated the size and the quality of the Chinese troops. Their lack of tanks, artillery and transport looked like fatal weakness to exponents of current U.S. military doctrines. Specifically, MacArthur overestimated...
Most of Korea's 40,000 Communist guerrillas were actually bypassed units of the regular North Korean army and could only be called "guerrillas" because they were fighting behind the front in Allied-held territory. At the time of the junction of the Inchon and Pusan beachheads, Tokyo spokesmen had gloatingly reported them trapped. Last week the guerrillas were acting more like rats in a corncrib than like rats in a trap. They had attacked trains, convoys, supply dumps, command posts, burned or terrorized towns, driven thousands of Koreans from their homes. They seemed to be centrally directed...