Word: yalu
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World War II had brought to near perfection two major techniques of modern war: the fast-moving, armored blitzkrieg, and strategic air bombardment, culminating in the Abomb. Korea saw both techniques disabled by physiography (mud and jagged hills) and politics (no bombs beyond the Yalu, a decision made in the U.S. in the summer of 1951). The result: a return to sitzkrieg, a mode of warfare that forced the mobile U.S. to fight on the enemy's terms. Thus it was that the most powerful nation in the world failed for the first time to win a war that...
...wars: the marines sailed from San Diego, and the nation glowed with the conviction that its sons were fighting in an honored cause-to save the weak from the strong. The mood changed with the headline: resolute at Pusan, proud at Inchon, angry and alarmed at defeat on the Yalu...
...provoked the bitterest soul-searching since the Lend-Lease decisions of 1940-41. The debate opened old sores and inflicted new ones all its own. MacArthur wanted to ease the strain on U.N. forces in Korea by a blockade of the Chinese mainland and by air attacks beyond the Yalu...
...worth drooling over," a fine day for hunting MIGs. With the howl of a tornado, four F-86 Sabre jets roared up from the Korean airfield and headed north for MIG Alley. For half an hour they climbed steadily, timing their ascent to conserve fuel and reach the Yalu at 45,000 ft. At that altitude, everything was silvery and incredibly bright; above, the sky was dark and greyish...
...River and the Gauntlet, by S.L. A. Marshall. An unforgettable story of the surprise and defeat of the U.S. Eighth Army on its 1950 march to the Yalu (TIME, June...