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What It Takes - Our present situation resembles Korea.
The comparisons between the events of September 11 and the attack on Pearl Harbor 60 years ago have been as numerous as they have been apt. But to appreciate fully the challenge we face, a different historical comparison may be in order-for the situation confronting the U.S. today bears more than a passing resemblance to the situation created when Communist North Korea invaded the south in June 1950.
That attack, too, caught the United States sadly unprepared. Like this September's terror attacks, Pyongyang's aggression thrust Americans into a conflict unlike any they had known before. U.S. officials scrambled to devise a vocabulary suited to a situation without ...
- The forgotten war. (Korea) (Special Report)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Elfin, Mel June 25, 1990 700+ words
...remaining vestige of the cold war: The division of Korea. Moreover, in this spring...Resist America" and "Aid Korea." The war's effects were felt far...communist bastion. A model war At the same time, Korea wrenched a Eurocentric America...
- MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader O'Neill, William L. May 1, 2000 700+ words
MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of...all costs short of war with the Soviet Union...with seizing South Korea, Europe might be next...FIRST months the Korean War consisted largely of...trained Republic of Korea (ROK) forces were...
- Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Koprowski, Dan June 22, 2003 700+ words
...peculiarities of limited wars make them vexing for presidents...people tire quickly of costly wars that seem not to produce victory, as in Korea--likewise long, drawn...Bush learned after the Gulf War. Limited wars, Hess asserts, restrict...
- Remembering 'forgotten war'; Korea vet sees own face on memorial as 1,600...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 28, 2002 700+ words
...of the way the Korean War veterans have been treated...often called the forgotten war," said Mr. DeVore...of one of the bloodiest wars in history got their due during the Korean War Veterans Armistice Day...they were stationed in Korea. When the Korean War...
- Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Drachman, Edward September 1, 2002 700+ words
...valuable book on three wars waged by the United...twentieth century: Korea, Vietnam, and...Each of these wars was undeclared...afterward. In each war, the president...points out that the wars "largely defined...police action" in Korea, for dismissing...unsatisfactory ending of the ...
- MacArthur and the American Century: A Reader; and MacArthur's War: Korea and...
- Magazine article from: Infantry Magazine Colonel Kingseed, Cole C. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...Softbound. MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American...which he dubs "MacArthur's war," Weintraub begins his study of the war with MacArthur's triumphant...events foreshadowing North Korea's premeditated attack on...
- NEW MEDAL HONORS VETERANS WHO SERVED IN POST-WAR KOREA.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 11, 2004 700+ words
...who have served in Korea since the end of the Korean War will be issued by...existed for Korean War veterans. ``We...been stationed in Korea for more than 50...separate Korean War Service Medal...the Republic of Korea, was established...
- Stalin's last war; Korea and the approach to World War III.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005 700+ words
078642088X Stalin's last war; Korea and the approach to World War III. Levine, Alan J. McFarland & Co. 2005 320...presents a military and political history of the Korean War. Drawing upon official American accounts as well as recently...
