Word: yalu
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...defeats the Chinese army in Korea, then what? That question is more political than military; it calls for definition of the political objectives of the Korean war. A reasonable statement of those objectives might be to: 1) restore a unified non-Communist Korean nation running to the Yalu River, and 2) punish the Chinese Communists sufficiently to make them drop their aggression against Korea...
...first objective does not necessarily require huge U.N. armies camped along the long, weak line of the Yalu. And the second objective does not require U.N. armies "wandering around . . . China." (Churchill's phrase...
...Communists choose to put a new army below the Yalu. it would risk the same fate that would have befallen the first. If the Communists want to contest the area between the waist and the Yalu with guerrilla activity, ROK troops, with U.S. air support, should be able to carry on the fight as long and as well as the Chinese...
...Increase pressure on the enemy. Possible first steps: a sea & air blockade of the China mainland; bombing air bases, troop and supply buildups north of the Yalu River; using atomic weapons (e.g., atomic artillery) against suitable enemy troop concentrations. A U.N. offensive could develop by next spring into a full-scale assault on the Red lines, with or without airborne or amphibious landings. Estimated new U.N. troops needed for the offensive: seven divisions...
...General Douglas MacArthur's; the men who did the detailed planning were a little group of Marine officers, and the first troops ashore were from the First Marine Division, with Lem Shepherd landing in the fifth assault wave. When Chinese hordes threatened to engulf the Marines below the Yalu River, Shepherd flew to the Changjin Reservoir by helicopter to be with them. Recalls Army General Clark Ruffner: "When our troops were heading up toward the Yalu we had lots of VIPs. But when we got hit by those seven Chinese divisions . . . the only VIP we had was General Shepherd...