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A Critical Review

The Korean War held many interesting and important aspects for global politics as well as military ones for the United States. This new beast was borne from mutual fear and arrogance that we have come to know as limited war. In Chapter 16 Weigley discusses the now seemingly predictable and non-eventful set of factors which were at the time of the Korean War a load of questions for both Americans, and communists alike. The Korean War first began with North Korea's invasion of the southern, American controlled country. This invasion was not done without the permission of Josef Stalin. North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung lobbied Stalin to allow him to invade, and after Stalin felt that the U.S. would not become involved he okayed the operation. Stalin was eager to test the United States, who had earlier failed to intervene in China's revolution, and wanted to see if an invasion of the Balkan states would be met with opposition. The U.S likewise was weary o


f involvement. They certainly did not want to become involved in direct conflict with the Soviets, but felt that this aggression must be met with opposition lest it repeat itself a number of times in other locations. The United States also feared that this might be a decoy, a ploy by the Soviets to pre-occupy the U.S. military with a war in Korea which would free them to manipulate other spheres of influence, and a possible invasion of Western Europe. That the Soviets wanted to control all of Europe was a prevailing fear at the time. What resulted, was a limited war, a new type of warfare for the United States who felt that they would have no trouble winning a war with a second rate communist army with an under-strength Army. This proved to be the case until at the end of 1950 Chinese forces crossed the Yalu and threw the war into uncertainty and eventually a draw. Weigley does well to discuss the problems with Gen. MacArthur, who put the United Stat

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