Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Lieut. General James Van Fleet: "The Eighth Army's pursuit phase has now ended with the clearing, again, of enemy units from South Korea . . . The Eighth Army will continue, however . . . when necessary and profitable, [to] meet [enemy] threats within North Korea...
...which may or may not have been suggested by Washington, would in fact fit in with various efforts on the international scene to obtain a truce (see above). But the plain military fact in Korea was that the Chinese Communists themselves, not the U.N. forces, had ended the "pursuit phase...
...roads and hampered air support. This week, nevertheless, the Eighth Army stood approximately on the line, well across the parallel along most of the front, which it had occupied in April when the Reds launched their bloody spring push. Washington's estimate of enemy casualties for the second phase, including those inflicted by allied air action, soared to 162,000. Added to the 90,000 estimated for the first phase, this made a total of a quartermillion. U.N. soldiers found a grisly new way to occupy their time, when they were not fighting: counting the enemy dead whose bodies...
...commanders have often been criticized for failing to "exploit the retreat"-that is, for not pressing after a beaten enemy. No such reproach could be made against Lieut. General Van Fleet and his Eighth Army last week. When the battered Chinese Reds ran out of steam in the second phase of their futile spring offensive, they acted as though Van Fleet might be ceremonious and give them a breathing spell. Instead he attacked, and when the Reds withdrew, he chased them and destroyed unit after unit...
...Chinese suffered a double beating-first while attacking, then while retreating. Army Chief of Staff Collins estimated the Chinese casualties for six days of their offensive at 90,000, and last week they were losing more thousands every day. This week their resistance had stiffened noticeably, and the "rout phase" of their retreat seemed to have ended. But Van Fleet still had about 90 more miles (roughly to latitude 39° 30') in which to grind them down before a rapidly widening front would create new problems for the U.N. forces...