[NormsRevenge]

To which I say ... Field Tactical Nukes ...

Kevin Curry, correct, most of the Korean peninsula was taken by the NKs, and it was the actions in their rear, ie. Inchon, etc that may have forestalled a complete conventional defeat. I question the resolve of Truman and Eisenhower to wage any wars after the WW2 days. Maybe MacArthur was right.. We should have used whatever was necessary to stem the tide of the Yellow/Red menace. It only set the stage for the 60s and the Vietnam police action/undeclared war. MO

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"I question the resolve of Truman and Eisenhower to wage any wars after the WW2 days. "

My reading of history is a little different- I believe that the American people were VERY tired of war, and just wanted to get back to a normal way of life. Remember, prior to Pearl Harbor, the majority of popular sentiment in this country was Isolationist. We like to forget that, but it is true (as you will see if you go back and read magazines and newspapers from the 1935-1941 era).

I think it reflects well on Truman and Eisenhower that they were able to accomplish as much as they did. (Korea, Strategic Air Command, nuclear submarine program, etc). With a Bill Clinton or a Jimmy-Boy Carter, we would most likely have been conquered and destroyed by the mid-1960's. After all, the Communists had over half of the planet- AND nuclear weapons, and the means to deliver them.

[Thud]

The NKPA was beaten on the Pusan perimeter. They'd have been routed anyway by the time of Inchon. The Inchon landings just meant that few of their cadres farther south escaped.