Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first U.S. troops, committed in battle below Seoul, had carried out MacArthur's first step and forced the enemy to deploy (map 1), MacArthur was able to foresee and plan the future course of the war. He planned a delaying retreat to a defensible beachhead (map 2), a buildup of strength behind the perimeter (map 3) and finally a breakout aided by one or more amphibious attacks behind the enemy lines (map 4). Although the Korean war brought many surprises (of which the greatest was the sudden Red collapse), the shape of the war after the first...
...Perimeter. The North Koreans had missed another big chance. They were still maintaining heavy pressure on the main axis of their advance-Taejon-Kumchon-Taegu-trying to turn the U.S. retreat into a rout. In this they failed. If, instead, they had diverted a heavier force to the south-coast drive-four divisions, for example, they would almost certainly have smashed through the thin U.S. crust and seized the vital port...
...defense position was breached; on the south bank of the Kum River they were threatened with envelopment from the flanks. It was obvious that they would have to pull out of the salient around Taejon and continue to fight a long delaying action. How far would they have to retreat before they were strong enough to make a comeback against the North Koreans...
After three years of able postwar reporting in Germany, she became the Trib's Tokyo bureau chief in late June, was one of the first reporters to get to Korea when the war started. She flew to Seoul's Kimpo airfield, joined the retreat to Suwon, later covered the heartbreaking retreats of green, outnumbered U.S. troops. ("This is how America lost her first infantryman," she began her story of seeing Private Kenneth Shadrick fall in action.) She fought off attempts by officers, worried about her safety, to ship her out of Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays...
Reischauer questioned whether the stragetic value of keeping the Reds out of Formosa was enough to offset the loss of United States face in Asia caused by supporting Chiang. "Fortunately," he added, "the defense of Formosa is tied in with Korea, and when we, leave Korea we can quietly retreat from Formosa...