"The Inchon Landing: An Example of Brilliant Generalship"

[Mike Yared <mikeyared@yahoo.com>]

CORPORATE AUTHOR ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA 
TITLE The Inchon Landing: An Example of Brilliant
Generalship 
PERSONAL AUTHORS Brunson, Robert O. 
APR 2003 
ABSTRACT The Inchon Landing's success required a
commander like General MacArthur who could gain the
cooperation and coordination of the Army, Navy,
Marine, and Air Force commanders, despite their belief
that the Inchon Landing operation was very nearly
impossible. Only these commanders, with their men, had
the necessary experience in amphibious attacks under
General MacArthur in the Pacific during World War II.
The speed at which the forces were built up, the
timely and accurate intelligence information gathered,
and the brave and valiant execution of the plan by the
soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who
successfully fought not just the enemy forces but also
the natural characteristics of the landing site with
its tides, seawalls, mud flats and monsoons; changed
the very nature of the Korean conflict. The landing at
Inchon cut the North Korean lines of communication,
allowed the breakout of the Pusan Perimeter, and
totally routed Communist forces on t! he brink of
apparent victory. The amphibious landing at Inchon on
15 September 1950, with its flanking movement using
the indirect approach, is truly an example of
brilliant generalship and military genius. 

Mike Yared


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