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Another American military man behaving badly. Aussies beware.
"Head of US marine force in Darwin stood down for drink-driving on nightclub strip"
Thanks to the tip from Freeper and the story by Jacqueline Breen courtesy ABC.
"The head of the US marine force stationed in the Top End [Darwin] has been relieved of his command for drink-driving on Darwin's nightclub strip."
"Colonel James Schnelle, 48, appeared in Darwin Local Court this morning, charged with medium-range drink-driving."
Charged and evidently relieved of command. Pending conviction? That is not clear? Nonetheless the man removed from his position.
Be ashamed. Be very ashamed. Setting a poor example for the lower ranking and younger men.
See previous blog entry [with further links] the topic the USMC contingent stationed Darwin:
https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/04/mrf-2017.html
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Friday, October 12, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Unified.
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C^3 = Command, control. communications.
Again belatedly so from that latest edition of the DEBKAfile news letter:
"Syria's S-300s will be integrated in Russia's national nuclear C^3 command and control system"
3 October.
"When Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Oct. 2 that the 'unified' S-300 air defense systems in Syria will be installed in Syria by Oct. 20, he meant its integration in the Russian homeland system. That is the real import of Moscow's response to the downing of its Il-20 spy plane on Sept. 17 . . . Putin seized on the disaster to establish in Syria an advanced air defense weapons system linked not only to the Russian Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, but integrated in Russia's own C^3 command, control and communications system against nuclear attack."
During the era of the Cold War Soviet air defense referred to as PVO Strany. Air Defense of the Homeland. That combined force of surface-air missiles, manned interceptors, radars and anti-aircraft -artillery.
PVO now gone since the time of having merged with the Russian Air Force.
Syria and Russian air defense now a combined and unified entity with robustness that cannot be denied. A regional threat beyond mere borders!
Unprecedented and ominous and obviously of concern to the Israeli primarily so?
coolbert.
C^3 = Command, control. communications.
Again belatedly so from that latest edition of the DEBKAfile news letter:
"Syria's S-300s will be integrated in Russia's national nuclear C^3 command and control system"
3 October.
"When Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Oct. 2 that the 'unified' S-300 air defense systems in Syria will be installed in Syria by Oct. 20, he meant its integration in the Russian homeland system. That is the real import of Moscow's response to the downing of its Il-20 spy plane on Sept. 17 . . . Putin seized on the disaster to establish in Syria an advanced air defense weapons system linked not only to the Russian Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, but integrated in Russia's own C^3 command, control and communications system against nuclear attack."
During the era of the Cold War Soviet air defense referred to as PVO Strany. Air Defense of the Homeland. That combined force of surface-air missiles, manned interceptors, radars and anti-aircraft -artillery.
PVO now gone since the time of having merged with the Russian Air Force.
Syria and Russian air defense now a combined and unified entity with robustness that cannot be denied. A regional threat beyond mere borders!
Unprecedented and ominous and obviously of concern to the Israeli primarily so?
coolbert.
Reach.
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Dress rehearsal? A show of force? Iranian missiles and drones with an impressive demonstration of regional reach and capability.
Belatedly from that latest edition of the DEBKAfile news letter:
1. "Rev Guards fire 8 missiles from Iran against ISIS in E. Syria"
1 October.
"Tehran state media reported that on Monday, Oct. 1 IRGC missiles targeted the 'headquarters of the terrorists' [Islamic State] east of the Euphrates in Syria in reprisal for their attack on a military parade in Ahvaz on Sept. 8, which killed 30 people and injured scores. The missiles were fired from the Iranian Kurdish region of Kermanshah. It was the second time in three weeks that the Revolutionary Guards had fired surface missiles from their base in Kermanshah at a target outside Iran."
2. "Strategic breakthrough for Iran in unimpeded drone-missile attack on E. Syria"
2 October.
"Neither Israel nor the US intervened when Iran broke new strategic ground on Monday, Oct. 1 by sending a squadron of 11 stealth UAVs to attack ISIS [Islamic State] in E. Syria . . . The attack drones were greater cause for concern than the 8 surface missiles the Revolutionary Guards launched from their base in Kermanshah in western Iran. Like the missiles, the assault drones cut through Iraqi air space to their targets in Syria without asking Baghdad for permission, but, unlike the missiles, they also returned to home base by the same route unhindered."
THIS IS ALL A WARNING TO THE ISRAELI? THE IRANIAN SENDING A MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR?
See also this War is Boring Internet web site article the topic of which is the Iranian UAV program.
coolbert.
Dress rehearsal? A show of force? Iranian missiles and drones with an impressive demonstration of regional reach and capability.
Belatedly from that latest edition of the DEBKAfile news letter:
1. "Rev Guards fire 8 missiles from Iran against ISIS in E. Syria"
1 October.
"Tehran state media reported that on Monday, Oct. 1 IRGC missiles targeted the 'headquarters of the terrorists' [Islamic State] east of the Euphrates in Syria in reprisal for their attack on a military parade in Ahvaz on Sept. 8, which killed 30 people and injured scores. The missiles were fired from the Iranian Kurdish region of Kermanshah. It was the second time in three weeks that the Revolutionary Guards had fired surface missiles from their base in Kermanshah at a target outside Iran."
2. "Strategic breakthrough for Iran in unimpeded drone-missile attack on E. Syria"
2 October.
"Neither Israel nor the US intervened when Iran broke new strategic ground on Monday, Oct. 1 by sending a squadron of 11 stealth UAVs to attack ISIS [Islamic State] in E. Syria . . . The attack drones were greater cause for concern than the 8 surface missiles the Revolutionary Guards launched from their base in Kermanshah in western Iran. Like the missiles, the assault drones cut through Iraqi air space to their targets in Syria without asking Baghdad for permission, but, unlike the missiles, they also returned to home base by the same route unhindered."
THIS IS ALL A WARNING TO THE ISRAELI? THE IRANIAN SENDING A MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR?
See also this War is Boring Internet web site article the topic of which is the Iranian UAV program.
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Korean War VIII.
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Conclusion!
Final link to the You Tube video the topic being the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 31, Who won the war?"
"Some Korean people discuss their feelings about the war..."
As to the Korean War, who lost and who won:
* North Korea definitely lost the war. Too much death and destruction for what was gained.
* South Korea definitely lost the war. Too much death and destruction for what was gained.
* The United States lost the war. Too much death and expenditure of resources for what was gained. Goal of unifying Korea under the flag of the United Nation Command not achieved.
* Communist China lost the war. Too much death and expenditure of resources for what was gained. Goal of unifying Korea under the banner of Red Communism not achieved.
* The Soviet Union lost the war. Intrigues of Stalin thwarted. Kim in the aftermath of the war more independent of Stalin and the Soviet Union and Communist China both I would think much to the chagrin of Moscow and Peking..
* Japan indirectly won the war. American protective posture assurance more or less guaranteed. Long-term American commitment in Asia a result of the war.
* Nationalist China indirectly won the war. American protective posture assurance more or less guaranteed. Long-term American anti-communist commitment in Asia a result of the war.
* America too indirectly WON THE WAR! Cold War adversaries so impressed [and frightened?] with American resolve in Korea further attempts by hostile powers [communist] to provoke an additional and much-wider scale "hot war" [such as in Europe] muted and averted.
* South Korea [ROK] too in the long-run WON the war! It took many decades but the South Korea story of economic development and now democracy robust perhaps one of the most remarkable stories in the entire history of mankind! Can someone suggest or find a historical parallel or equivalent?
The end! Now we know where we have been we have a better idea of how we got here [Korean Crisis] and to an extent where we are going?? I am not sure.
coolbert.
Conclusion!
Final link to the You Tube video the topic being the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 31, Who won the war?"
"Some Korean people discuss their feelings about the war..."
As to the Korean War, who lost and who won:
* North Korea definitely lost the war. Too much death and destruction for what was gained.
* South Korea definitely lost the war. Too much death and destruction for what was gained.
* The United States lost the war. Too much death and expenditure of resources for what was gained. Goal of unifying Korea under the flag of the United Nation Command not achieved.
* Communist China lost the war. Too much death and expenditure of resources for what was gained. Goal of unifying Korea under the banner of Red Communism not achieved.
* The Soviet Union lost the war. Intrigues of Stalin thwarted. Kim in the aftermath of the war more independent of Stalin and the Soviet Union and Communist China both I would think much to the chagrin of Moscow and Peking..
* Japan indirectly won the war. American protective posture assurance more or less guaranteed. Long-term American commitment in Asia a result of the war.
* Nationalist China indirectly won the war. American protective posture assurance more or less guaranteed. Long-term American anti-communist commitment in Asia a result of the war.
* America too indirectly WON THE WAR! Cold War adversaries so impressed [and frightened?] with American resolve in Korea further attempts by hostile powers [communist] to provoke an additional and much-wider scale "hot war" [such as in Europe] muted and averted.
* South Korea [ROK] too in the long-run WON the war! It took many decades but the South Korea story of economic development and now democracy robust perhaps one of the most remarkable stories in the entire history of mankind! Can someone suggest or find a historical parallel or equivalent?
The end! Now we know where we have been we have a better idea of how we got here [Korean Crisis] and to an extent where we are going?? I am not sure.
coolbert.
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Korean War VII.
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Further links to the You Tube video the topic of which is the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 26, Koje-do POW Camp"
"The commander of Kojedo Island POW camp, General Dodd, is captured by his own prisoners. He promised to stop forced 'screening' of POWs. He was relieved of command upon release."
* Chinese communist prisoners-of-war took the Koje-do camp over. Captured and held hostage the American general in charge of the camp.
* Chinese Communist Forces [CCF] Red Army commissars voluntarily and with quite deliberate intent surrendering to the American military. Object to gain access to Chinese army troops held captive by the United Nations command. Commissars their goal to organize communist troops for resistance of whatever nature was possible.
* Larry Wu-Tai Chin the Chinese Communist spy one of the most devastating spies in all of history. Larry by the estimate of the CIA a man single-handedly prolonging the Korea War by at least a year!
* Germ warfare allegations continue to this day but are a HOAX. Commie agitation and propaganda [agit-prop] effective even unto this very day!
* American machinations to remove Rhee an operation code-named Ever-Ready. AGAIN RHEE SEEN AS A LOOSE CANNON.
"loose can·non - - noun - - an unpredictable or uncontrolled person who is likely to cause unintentional damage."
"Korean War - PART 27, Denouement"
"denouement - - n. The conclusion or resolution of a plot"
"The war is coming close to an end. Close to 5 million refugees live in the South. Millions of children were abandoned. The vast disparity between the relative wealth of the foreigners in South Korea and the great poverty of the Korean population, in their own country, stands out."
* 5 million refugees [1 million abandoned children] in South Korea. A tremendous strain on the entire society.
* South Korea not a wealthy country BEFORE the war. Conditions during the war exacerbated by millions of refugees for which there was no accommodation. The separation of families between North and South continues almost seventy years later.
"Korean War - PART 28, End of the War"
"President Syngman Rhee releases North Korean POWs to derail the armistice talks (6:25). The Armistice talks go into the final phases. Operation 'Little Switch', the first big exchange of prisoners, takes place. In the meantime, the war goes on."
* Rhee continues with misguided and counter-productive efforts to disrupt armistice talk. Releases North Korean POW on his own initiative.
* Armistice when finally signed done without the participation of Rhee.
* Both sides of the war attempting to gain an upper hand during truce negotiations. Combat continuing while talks in progress. That demilitarized zone [DMZ] the demarcation line as to be set where the fighting had stopped.
* When armistice talks concluded, the adversaries more or less in the same location as when the war started. A stalemate without reasonable amelioration.
"Korean War - PART 29, Two Koreas...again"
"The political regimes of both the DPRK and the ROK consolidate and solidify their control over their respective parts of Korea after the war. Kim Il Sung purges political rivals in the north, while Syngman Rhee plays his own political games in the south."
* Kim purging his own Communist party of Stalinist elements! Those continuing to be loyal to the Soviet. Kim becomes his own man!
* Rhee unfortunately ruling in the manner of the strong-man, an autocrat who brooks no opposition. Protruding nails will be hammered is the expression most applicable..
* Some Chinese POW under UNC control mutilating or tattooing their bodies in defiance, evidence of their refusing repatriation to mainland China.
"Korean War - PART 30, Post-War Korea"
"The war ends with Korea still divided."
* Economic miracle of South Korea in the aftermath of the war undeniable.
* North Korea their rebuilding also remarkable, but at great cost societal-wise.
More to follow!
coolbert.
Further links to the You Tube video the topic of which is the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 26, Koje-do POW Camp"
"The commander of Kojedo Island POW camp, General Dodd, is captured by his own prisoners. He promised to stop forced 'screening' of POWs. He was relieved of command upon release."
* Chinese communist prisoners-of-war took the Koje-do camp over. Captured and held hostage the American general in charge of the camp.
* Chinese Communist Forces [CCF] Red Army commissars voluntarily and with quite deliberate intent surrendering to the American military. Object to gain access to Chinese army troops held captive by the United Nations command. Commissars their goal to organize communist troops for resistance of whatever nature was possible.
* Larry Wu-Tai Chin the Chinese Communist spy one of the most devastating spies in all of history. Larry by the estimate of the CIA a man single-handedly prolonging the Korea War by at least a year!
* Germ warfare allegations continue to this day but are a HOAX. Commie agitation and propaganda [agit-prop] effective even unto this very day!
* American machinations to remove Rhee an operation code-named Ever-Ready. AGAIN RHEE SEEN AS A LOOSE CANNON.
"loose can·non - - noun - - an unpredictable or uncontrolled person who is likely to cause unintentional damage."
"denouement - - n. The conclusion or resolution of a plot"
"The war is coming close to an end. Close to 5 million refugees live in the South. Millions of children were abandoned. The vast disparity between the relative wealth of the foreigners in South Korea and the great poverty of the Korean population, in their own country, stands out."
* 5 million refugees [1 million abandoned children] in South Korea. A tremendous strain on the entire society.
* South Korea not a wealthy country BEFORE the war. Conditions during the war exacerbated by millions of refugees for which there was no accommodation. The separation of families between North and South continues almost seventy years later.
"Korean War - PART 28, End of the War"
"President Syngman Rhee releases North Korean POWs to derail the armistice talks (6:25). The Armistice talks go into the final phases. Operation 'Little Switch', the first big exchange of prisoners, takes place. In the meantime, the war goes on."
* Rhee continues with misguided and counter-productive efforts to disrupt armistice talk. Releases North Korean POW on his own initiative.
* Armistice when finally signed done without the participation of Rhee.
* Both sides of the war attempting to gain an upper hand during truce negotiations. Combat continuing while talks in progress. That demilitarized zone [DMZ] the demarcation line as to be set where the fighting had stopped.
* When armistice talks concluded, the adversaries more or less in the same location as when the war started. A stalemate without reasonable amelioration.
"Korean War - PART 29, Two Koreas...again"
"The political regimes of both the DPRK and the ROK consolidate and solidify their control over their respective parts of Korea after the war. Kim Il Sung purges political rivals in the north, while Syngman Rhee plays his own political games in the south."
* Kim purging his own Communist party of Stalinist elements! Those continuing to be loyal to the Soviet. Kim becomes his own man!
* Rhee unfortunately ruling in the manner of the strong-man, an autocrat who brooks no opposition. Protruding nails will be hammered is the expression most applicable..
* Some Chinese POW under UNC control mutilating or tattooing their bodies in defiance, evidence of their refusing repatriation to mainland China.
"Korean War - PART 30, Post-War Korea"
"The war ends with Korea still divided."
* Economic miracle of South Korea in the aftermath of the war undeniable.
* North Korea their rebuilding also remarkable, but at great cost societal-wise.
More to follow!
coolbert.
Korean War VI.
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Still yet more links to the You Tube video the topic of which is the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 21, Prisoners of War [1]"
"The Gloucesters of the British 29th Brigade are taken prisoner of war after the battle of the Imjin River in April, 1951. The war stabilizes at around the 38th parallel, and the two sides agree to negotiate in the summer of 1951"
* Korea the last war British Commonwealth Forces fought as part of a single integrated command.
* Communist treatment of UNC POW must be thought of as beyond mere incarceration. Also an educational process.
* The last two years of the war the status of prisoners of war [POW] and repatriation of POW a central issue of negotiations between the warring parties. The Korean War basically a single year of movement followed by several years of wrangling over an armistice and POW repatriation.
* See prior blog entry the experience of Sir Michael Caine the actor during his service in Korea.
"Korean War - PART 22, Bombing of North Korea"
"This episode details the UN bombing campaign over North Korea and the results for the people on the ground. The majority of civilians killed in the Korean War were killed in North Korea by air attack. (This segment on the bombing of North Korea was censored from the US version of this documentary.)."
* That American strategic bombing effort the target North Korean cities far greater than what I had thought.
* Tactical air campaign Operation Strangle the results of which were inconclusive.
* Strategic bombing did not work in Korea. 600,000 tons of bombs. 2 million civilians dead in North Korea but the adversary still not capitulating.
"Korean War - PART 23, Prisoners of War [2]"
"Truce talks continue as the war goes on. The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge (known to the North Koreans as 'The Battle of Height 1211') in October 1951 was Verdun-style trench warfare, albeit with perhaps more fire-and-maneuver than the Great War battle. The North Koreans believe that this was the toughest battle of the war"
* United Nations forces thought to be more prepared and adept at trench style warfare in the manner of combat ala' World War I.
* American air force prepared for use of atomic weapons. This was Hudson Harbor. Repeated demonstrations to intimidate the communist leadership. Use of atomic weapons was indeed a possible.
* Chinese Communist treatment of UNC POW more correct and humane.
"Korean War - PART 24 Geojedo POW camp [3]"
"The Western prisoners' Chinese captors attempt to 're-educate' them, and try to get the POWs to question their countries' involvement in the war"
* American military promulgates the Code of Conduct in the aftermath of the Korean War. The behavior of some American military personnel while in communist captivity found to be wanting and remedial measures taken.
* American POW nearly a thousand of them sent to the Soviet Union for Nuclear/Chemical/Biological warfare experimentation.
* North Korean/Chinese/Soviet efforts at re-education of UNC POW yielding scant results it would appear for the amount of effort as expended.
* American soldiers found to be deficient in their knowledge of chain-of-command.Again, performance of some American troops in communist captivity found to be lacking.
* Behavior of communist POW under control of UNC "an example how POW should behave to create maximum nuisance value". A military best.
"Korean War - PART 25, Germ Warfare"
"The North Koreans and Chinese alleged that the USA dropped disease-infected insects on North Korea and China in 1952."
* Insects used as biological warfare vectors during winter not a do-able?
* Those North Korean propaganda films showing personnel testing for germ agents those lab technicians not taking precautionary protective measures .
* Accusation of germ warfare when made difficult if not impossible to disprove.
More to follow!
coolbert.
Still yet more links to the You Tube video the topic of which is the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 21, Prisoners of War [1]"
"The Gloucesters of the British 29th Brigade are taken prisoner of war after the battle of the Imjin River in April, 1951. The war stabilizes at around the 38th parallel, and the two sides agree to negotiate in the summer of 1951"
* Korea the last war British Commonwealth Forces fought as part of a single integrated command.
* Communist treatment of UNC POW must be thought of as beyond mere incarceration. Also an educational process.
* The last two years of the war the status of prisoners of war [POW] and repatriation of POW a central issue of negotiations between the warring parties. The Korean War basically a single year of movement followed by several years of wrangling over an armistice and POW repatriation.
* See prior blog entry the experience of Sir Michael Caine the actor during his service in Korea.
"Korean War - PART 22, Bombing of North Korea"
"This episode details the UN bombing campaign over North Korea and the results for the people on the ground. The majority of civilians killed in the Korean War were killed in North Korea by air attack. (This segment on the bombing of North Korea was censored from the US version of this documentary.)."
* That American strategic bombing effort the target North Korean cities far greater than what I had thought.
* Tactical air campaign Operation Strangle the results of which were inconclusive.
* Strategic bombing did not work in Korea. 600,000 tons of bombs. 2 million civilians dead in North Korea but the adversary still not capitulating.
"Korean War - PART 23, Prisoners of War [2]"
"Truce talks continue as the war goes on. The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge (known to the North Koreans as 'The Battle of Height 1211') in October 1951 was Verdun-style trench warfare, albeit with perhaps more fire-and-maneuver than the Great War battle. The North Koreans believe that this was the toughest battle of the war"
* United Nations forces thought to be more prepared and adept at trench style warfare in the manner of combat ala' World War I.
* American air force prepared for use of atomic weapons. This was Hudson Harbor. Repeated demonstrations to intimidate the communist leadership. Use of atomic weapons was indeed a possible.
* Chinese Communist treatment of UNC POW more correct and humane.
"Korean War - PART 24 Geojedo POW camp [3]"
"The Western prisoners' Chinese captors attempt to 're-educate' them, and try to get the POWs to question their countries' involvement in the war"
* American military promulgates the Code of Conduct in the aftermath of the Korean War. The behavior of some American military personnel while in communist captivity found to be wanting and remedial measures taken.
* American POW nearly a thousand of them sent to the Soviet Union for Nuclear/Chemical/Biological warfare experimentation.
* North Korean/Chinese/Soviet efforts at re-education of UNC POW yielding scant results it would appear for the amount of effort as expended.
* American soldiers found to be deficient in their knowledge of chain-of-command.Again, performance of some American troops in communist captivity found to be lacking.
* Behavior of communist POW under control of UNC "an example how POW should behave to create maximum nuisance value". A military best.
"Korean War - PART 25, Germ Warfare"
"The North Koreans and Chinese alleged that the USA dropped disease-infected insects on North Korea and China in 1952."
* Insects used as biological warfare vectors during winter not a do-able?
* Those North Korean propaganda films showing personnel testing for germ agents those lab technicians not taking precautionary protective measures .
* Accusation of germ warfare when made difficult if not impossible to disprove.
More to follow!
coolbert.
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Korean War V.
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Yet still more links to the You Tube video the topic of which is the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 16, The Low Point"
"200,000 PLA troops roll back the UN army from North Korea. 10 PLA divisions slam into the 8th Army in the west, sending them back to the south. The war is going very badly for the UN forces, as a major Chinese intervention was not foreseen"
* Communist Chinese Forces [CCF] known even in the fall of 1950 to number more like 300,000 troops the immediate area of the Manchurian/Korean border.
* The Chinese offensive consisting of Phase One [early November] and Phase Two [late November].
* CCF units at that exact moment probably the BEST light infantry in the world. Experienced, motivated, hardened, resolute. As was the North Korean soldier in June 1950 so was the CCF soldier in November 1950. American troops far outclassed in some instances?
* Chinese soldiers fully well understand not impervious to extreme cold. Probably suffering worse than UNC personnel.
"Korean War - PART 17, Winter of 1950 / Atrocities"
"The US Marines of the 10th Corps fight their way out of the Chinese envelopment, helped by uncontested control of the air. The retreat was orderly, unlike the 'bug-out' in the west."
* Bug-out as to leave quickly. In the Korean context American troops in some instances retiring from the battlefield in a less than orderly and planned manner.
* U.S. Army RCT [Regimental Combat Team] 31 more or less obliterated east of the Chosin reservoir. Twenty-four hundred men at the start of the battle [28 November], four days later only four-hundred men left standing!!
* UNC forces betrayed by treachery of the worst possible sort. The spy ring of Philby/Burgess/MacLean passing secrets of inestimable value to the communist during this period.
"Korean War - PART 18, Retreat from the North"
"General Walton Walker is killed in a jeep accident in North Korea. The 10th Corps leaves North Korea. Humiliated, the UN forces destroy as much as they can in their retreat out of North Korea"
* Only two nations in the history of warfare [U.S. and Great Britain] have demonstrated a capacity to execute a reverse amphibious operation while under pressure and done so in an organized manner, not a disastrous pell mell retreat. The evacuation of X Corps from Wonsan such an instance.
"Korean War - PART 19, Hard fighting"
"The combined Chinese/North Korean forces try to defeat the UN in South Korea. Ridgeway's [sic] change of strategy meant that the UN forces would hold ground, relinquish it, then counterattack with superior air and artillery support"
* Matt Ridgway the only senior American combat commander in Korea who seems to have emerged from the conflict with his reputation more or less intact.
* Measures as implemented by Ridgway to counter the massed human-wave attacks of the Chinese called "Meatgrinder".
"Korean War - PART 20, MacArthur is Fired"
"MacArthur is fired due to his criticism of US president, Truman"
* MacArthur wanting to widen the war into Manchuria. MacArthur wanting to use the atomic bomb. MacArthur also wanting to "lay down" a radioactive cobalt layer on the border between Manchuria and Korea. MacArthur also wanting to commit Nationalist Chinese troops to the fray.
* Douglas MacArthur unfortunately having a big mouth and openly critical of American military policy in Korea. A big mouth and openly critical and expressing himself too frequently. His dismissal a sad ending to an illustrious career.
More to follow!
coolbert.
Yet still more links to the You Tube video the topic of which is the Korean War:
"Korean War - PART 16, The Low Point"
"200,000 PLA troops roll back the UN army from North Korea. 10 PLA divisions slam into the 8th Army in the west, sending them back to the south. The war is going very badly for the UN forces, as a major Chinese intervention was not foreseen"
* Communist Chinese Forces [CCF] known even in the fall of 1950 to number more like 300,000 troops the immediate area of the Manchurian/Korean border.
* The Chinese offensive consisting of Phase One [early November] and Phase Two [late November].
* CCF units at that exact moment probably the BEST light infantry in the world. Experienced, motivated, hardened, resolute. As was the North Korean soldier in June 1950 so was the CCF soldier in November 1950. American troops far outclassed in some instances?
* Chinese soldiers fully well understand not impervious to extreme cold. Probably suffering worse than UNC personnel.
"Korean War - PART 17, Winter of 1950 / Atrocities"
"The US Marines of the 10th Corps fight their way out of the Chinese envelopment, helped by uncontested control of the air. The retreat was orderly, unlike the 'bug-out' in the west."
* Bug-out as to leave quickly. In the Korean context American troops in some instances retiring from the battlefield in a less than orderly and planned manner.
* U.S. Army RCT [Regimental Combat Team] 31 more or less obliterated east of the Chosin reservoir. Twenty-four hundred men at the start of the battle [28 November], four days later only four-hundred men left standing!!
* UNC forces betrayed by treachery of the worst possible sort. The spy ring of Philby/Burgess/MacLean passing secrets of inestimable value to the communist during this period.
"Korean War - PART 18, Retreat from the North"
"General Walton Walker is killed in a jeep accident in North Korea. The 10th Corps leaves North Korea. Humiliated, the UN forces destroy as much as they can in their retreat out of North Korea"
* Only two nations in the history of warfare [U.S. and Great Britain] have demonstrated a capacity to execute a reverse amphibious operation while under pressure and done so in an organized manner, not a disastrous pell mell retreat. The evacuation of X Corps from Wonsan such an instance.
"Korean War - PART 19, Hard fighting"
"The combined Chinese/North Korean forces try to defeat the UN in South Korea. Ridgeway's [sic] change of strategy meant that the UN forces would hold ground, relinquish it, then counterattack with superior air and artillery support"
* Matt Ridgway the only senior American combat commander in Korea who seems to have emerged from the conflict with his reputation more or less intact.
* Measures as implemented by Ridgway to counter the massed human-wave attacks of the Chinese called "Meatgrinder".
"Korean War - PART 20, MacArthur is Fired"
"MacArthur is fired due to his criticism of US president, Truman"
* MacArthur wanting to widen the war into Manchuria. MacArthur wanting to use the atomic bomb. MacArthur also wanting to "lay down" a radioactive cobalt layer on the border between Manchuria and Korea. MacArthur also wanting to commit Nationalist Chinese troops to the fray.
* Douglas MacArthur unfortunately having a big mouth and openly critical of American military policy in Korea. A big mouth and openly critical and expressing himself too frequently. His dismissal a sad ending to an illustrious career.
More to follow!
coolbert.
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