This was fascinating. The Korean conflict is often referred to as "The Forgotten War" and it seems like there's not much information available on it compared to WWII or Vietnam which bracketed it. Thank you for bringing this to us.
S.L.A Marshall is in my opinion, is one of the FINEST if not the BEST author, & Military Historian writers I've ever read. The River And The Guantlet, Battles In The Monsoon, Fields Of Bamboo, these books are MUST reads. I've read ALL three.....Damn GOOD.
8:44 - It is scenes like that, with small children, running from a war that they couldn't even begin to understand, completely innocent victims that rise very complex questions about what the Cold War was. What was the answer to prevent such situations? That was obviously a tragedy. Small children like that and even younger were massacred by bombs, bullets and shells. Yes, that DID HAPPEN and that does happen in war. ANY WAR. So the question in this case is, keeping in mind scenes like that with that poor little one running from a situation he couldn't even understand (who knows what happened to him...) is what do you do when the world has an aggressor that only wants to impose his dominion and system over the world and who will provoke and create wars like that to promote that insidious goal? Do you just give up and let him win so that children like that wouldn't run away (probably not even in terror because he was too young to understand what was going on) and be blown to pieces? That is exactly what the communist propaganda said throughout the Cold War: let's allow the tyrant (the USSR) to win so that there would be "peace"... No, that is not the answer of course. There is no peace in slavery under a totalitarian system. President Eisenhower had the answer but he did not make the people understand the necessity of it. It was called Massive Retaliation Doctrine. When you have an enemy that only wants to beat you and impose his will, his dominion and his system over you the only way to avert war is to make that aggressor too scared to start a war, or to provoke others like the one in Korea. There is no other way to deal with a bully who only cares about winning over you. In a war which HE started of course (but for which the communist propaganda managed to put the blame on the US...). However like I said, unfortunately President Eisenhower did not have the courage and integrity to make the people understand the necessity of his doctrine for national defense and the result was the empowerment of the evil empire that orchestrated this war and as a consequence the breakout of many more such wars throughout the world that saw the killing, mutilation, dismemberment of unarmed civilians many of which small young children just like that little guy. The solution against an enemy that only wants victory over you is not a fake "pacifist" attitude with phony calls for a fake "peace" (slavery under a totalitarian system is not peace) but strength and a firm attitude that tells the enemy that he will be nationally annihilated if he starts a war. Yeah, the commies propaganda is very good at distorting such a speech and concept and use it to demonize those who say it but that is the only way to avert wars. President Eisenhower understood this very well and that's why he was so adamant about maintaining the Massive Retaliation Doctrine. Unfortunately he didn't make his people understand it too and the consequences were the Vietnam War and all the other wars in Africa and other places around the world caused by the ideological, political and economic expansion of that evil empire, called the Soviet Union.
One problem with this video, it fails to discuss the absolute horror of the US bombing of North Korea. Many Koreans will never forget and even to this day, they vow 'never again.' Could be a reason why we can't negotiate a nuclear deal with the current Korean leader, Kim Il Sun
If bombing the enemy saves even one allied life then bring it on. Any allied prisoner of the Japanese will tell you that the Korean guards were extremely cruel people indeed, Far worse than the Japanese even.
@@delinquentinparadise yes true they were cruel but take note of the Americans who fled the USA and decided to go commie. The big issue with N. Korea was how their leadership turned out to be worse than Stalin and his crew. also the right wing post ww2 did a great job demonizing the 'Commie' so anytime anyone talks about the crimes of the communists, we must ask ourselves why do they hate us so much?
