Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professionally designed to support our forces committed to Korea and to bring hostilities to an end with the least possible delay and at a saving of countless American and allied lives, I have been severely criticized in lay circles, principally abroad, despite my understanding that from a military standpoint the above views have been fully shared in the past by practically every military leader concerned with the Korean campaign including our own Joint Chiefs of Staff." The Republicans rose as a man and cheered. Democrats sat in unhappy silence...
...utilize the friendly Chinese force of some 600,000 men on Formosa, if not permitted to blockade the China coast to prevent the Chinese Reds from getting succor from without, and if there were to be no hope of major reinforcements, the position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory...
...Kenneth Wherry had pointedly called it "Truman's war," and Pennsylvania's Ed Martin had declared that the U.S. people "have no confidence in the hasty midnight decision which ordered our soldiers into the so-called police action in Korea." MacArthur said: "That decision, from a military standpoint, proved a sound...
MacArthur: "The position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory...
...qualification in MacArthur's speech on which the J.C.S. is likely to base its explanations to Congress is the phrase "from a military standpoint." The J.C.S. like MacArthur saw no military end to the Korean war and its steady casualties unless the U.N. command took the four steps outlined by MacArthur. But the Joint Chiefs, like MacArthur, also realized that other factors were involved e.g.: Would Russia come in? Would U.N. allies support the U.S.? As there were political estimates involved, the Joint