Word: regroupment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone north for a while to think it over," said a front-line commander last week. After their massive attack had been broken, the Chinese Reds had not only stopped, but recoiled. Instead of leapfrogging fresh units into the battle, they pulled back out of U.N. artillery range to regroup and catch their breath. It was surprising to some U.N. officers in Korea that the Chinese needed so much time to launch the second surge of their offensive...
There are cogent military reasons for pressing the fight before the battered North Korean armies have time to regroup, and sound political reasons for uniting the country immediately and instituting a single democratic government. But there are even stronger reasons at this time why the United States should not have made an apparently unilateral move...
...British ist Royal Dragoons, Algerian troops from the French zone, and miscellaneous U.S. forces including regiments hastily summoned from Austria and Trieste. French, British and American planes whined overhead. Even the U.S. Navy joined in, with small craft on the Rhine. After retreating, the defenders were scheduled to "regroup" and then wage a "victorious counterattack...
...trying to restore some cohesion, Bell found South Korean stragglers who claimed they were "messengers" but had no messages; South Korean officers who could not find their division commander; and, finally, the division commander, who was on a hilltop watching Allied airplanes strafe the enemy, instead of trying to regroup his men. The South Korean driver of a regimental radio jeep had his set tuned to a recording of Crooner Frank Sinatra (broadcast by the U.S. armed forces network) because, he explained, there could be no messages, because his regiment had disappeared...
...desperation," as some observers reported. The enemy, who still holds the initiative in Korea, fought in good order and with disciplined deliberation. However, signs of weakening that the Reds had shown earlier were increasingly visible last week. The North Koreans were finding it harder & harder to regroup for offensives and to bring up supplies. U.S. observers believed that, while many months of hard fighting and a bitter winter were still ahead for the U.N. forces in Korea, last week's Red offensive was the high-water mark-the Gettysburg-of the North Koreans...