Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that extent, a stalemate in Korea had its advantages for the anti-Communist side. But neither Washington nor U.N. could look forward with complacency to an indefinitely divided Korea, and a danger that tied down 150,000 U.S. troops in that small peninsula...
...army in the world, short of some catastrophe I couldn't possibly foresee, that could destroy them before we could do something about it ... evacuate them or go back to a place where they were safe. For example, you could put a dozen American divisions in the Breton peninsula [in France], where they can be covered by our own sea and air power, and the Russians couldn't touch them to save their souls...
...campaign in the Korean peninsula bore striking resemblance to the Duke of Wellington's "Peninsular Campaign" against Napoleon's armies in Spain. The Iron Duke, like Matthew Ridgway, was pitted against enemy armies of overwhelming numerical superiority, capable of getting steady overland reinforcements. Wellington's troops, like the Eighth Army, were supplied by overwhelming seapower. Wrote Wellington, describing his "war of maneuver": "If they advance against me, I shall retire before them, accepting battle if they give me a favorable opportunity, for the missile action of my lines is superior to the shock action of their columns...
...Fight Up the Peninsula...
Visitors to Hong Kong, expecting the tension of a beleaguered city, were surprised at how relaxed it was. Over tea in the dustily ornate Peninsula Hotel, a vacationing U.S. physician from Tokyo marveled: "I never saw a patient quite so cheerfully resigned to dying...