Re: Book: The Dragon Strikes: China and the Korean War: June-December 1950

["Mike Yared" <mikeyared@hotmail.com>]

Ok, great review. I wondered why Infantry is published 3 times a year when 
it was supposed to be bimonthly. And the issue come out late.
Mike

>From: Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>Subject: Re: Book: The Dragon Strikes: China and the Korean War: 
>June-December 1950
>Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 07:01:06 -0800 (PST)
>
>I know it was because I wrote it.  I am the Korean War
>book reviewer for Infantry Magazine.
>
>Mike Davino
>
>--- Mike Yared <mikeyared@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > This book review was in Infantry magazine, Vol.90,
> > n.1, p.49.
> > January-April 2000.
> >
> > The Dragon Strikes: China and the Korean War:
> > June-December 1950
> >
> > The Dragon Strikes: China and the Korean War:
> > June-December 1950.
> > By Patrick C. Roe.
> > Presidio Press, 2000.
> > 466 Pages. $34.95.
> > Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Michael F. Davino,
> > U.S. Army.
> >
> > In late November 1950, the United Nations Command
> > launched what became known
> > as the "Home for Christmas" offensive. Despite an
> > earlier clash with Chinese
> > Communist Forces that had left a regiment of the Ist
> > Cavalry Division
> > bloodied in the Eighth U.S. Army zone and a Marine
> > regiment's defeat of a
> > Chinese division in the X Corps zone, the UN Command
> > attempted a massive
> > attack to reunify the Korean peninsula. Within a
> > month, the Eighth Army had
> > been defeated by the Chinese and was withdrawing
> > below the 38th parallel
> > where the war began. In the X Corps zone, the Ist
> > Marine Division had to
> > break out from encirclement and was evacuated by sea
> > to Pusan with the rest
> > of X Corps. In the words of author Patrick Roe, the
> > course of history was
> > changed. The Dragon Strikes is a close study of the
> > Chinese involvement in
> > the first six months of the Korean War. It is an
> > excellent account and a
> > timely one. Its publication coincides with the 50th
> > anniversary of the war
> > and a time when the potential threat China poses to
> > the United States is
> > under increasing scrutiny. Patrick Roe, who served
> > as the intelligence
> > officer of a Marine rifle battalion in the Chosin
> > Reservoir campaign,
> > examines in great detail both the Chinese actions
> > against the U.S. X Corps
> > in Northeastern Korea and the defeat of the U.S.
> > Eighth Army at the
> > Chongchon River. He reviews the pre-war situation
> > and analyzes why the
> > Chinese chose to enter the conflict. He covers the
> > deception plan of the
> > Chinese, explaining how they were able to intervene
> > in such a decisive
> > manner while remaining undetected by U.S.
> > intelligence services. Unlike many
> > authors who tend to hold General of the Army Douglas
> > MacArthur and his G-2,
> > Major General Charles Willoughby, almost solely
> > responsible for the
> > disastrous campaigns in north Korea, Roe describes
> > the role of the Joint
> > Chiefs, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the
> > National Security Council
> > in the debacle. He explains the complex chain of
> > events that had the
> > national command authorities on the verge of panic,
> > and unable to issue firm
> > orders to MacArthur. This book will give readers
> > interested in the Korean
> > War an excellent understanding of how the Chinese
> > were able to defeat a
> > technologically superior enemy. It is an excellent
> > addition to the
> > literature available on the so-called "Forgotten
> > War."
> >
> >
> >
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