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...first place, China, even more than Korea, provides a type of military terrain with which we have not had much experience. I refer not to the fact that the country is big nor to the fact that it is heavily populated, but to the remarkable density of the agrarian population in the countryside on the flood plains of the great rivers where the bulk of the Chinese populace live...
...Japanese found that sending a military column through the densely populated Chinese countryside was a different proposition from sending one against an enemy in an unpopulated terrain. The chief result of this feature of the Chinese countryside is the tendency for invading spearheads to bog down, lose their communications and fight a war of rapier against haystack...
...field strategy . . . a war of maneuver with the object of inflicting as heavy a punishment upon the enemy as possible ... has worked well. [But] we must not fall into the error of evaluating such . . . successes as decisively leading to the enemy's defeat." MacArthur added that the mountainous terrain, outnumbered U.N. forces, and political decisions over which he had no control made "purely academic" any talk of crossing the 38th parallel...
...lost. Bulldozers had already been unloaded in French Morocco, the first group of engineers was on the ground, ships laden with airfield equipment were en route. The seven Moroccan fields were at Port Lyautey, Marrakech, Casablanca, Meknes, Rabat, Kourigha, Nouasseur. The incoming Americans would find the flat, sparsely wooded terrain ideal for military aircraft bases, but would run into difficulties with the heat (120° in the summer shade) and the housing (very tight...
...maneuvers near Istanbul, Yamut asked American advisers to show his officers what jeeps, trucks and tanks could do in the rough terrain. He followed the lead jeep as it bounced and slushed through brush, forests and mud hills. Not satisfied to allow his general officers to stand around observing, he herded them into other jeeps or tanks and sent them careering in the dust and mud until they were so dirty the red stripes on their uniform trousers were hardly visible. Next day he sent the shocked generals slithering through sandy terrain in the same jeeps. A few vehicles turned...