Dan
Mike Yared wrote:
it is at
http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/fulcrum_main.pl?database=ft_u2&keyfieldvalue=ADA415153&filename=%2Ffulcrum%2Fdata%2FTR_fulltext%2Fdoc%2FADA415153.pdf--- Mike Yared <mikeyared@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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