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RE: "The Inchon Landing: An Example of Brilliant Generalship"

Jack,

There also was the fact that UN-supported partisans held all the islands off both coasts of North Korea and had partisan units operating inside the country. By 1952 there were 22,000 plus partisans on the islands broken down into 6 partisan infantry regiments plus a partisan airborne regiment (about battalion size) in the Yongdongp'o area. This does not include agent operations that were active in North Korea.

The Johns Hopkins ORO report, 1954, credits the partisans with tying down 75,000 Chinese and North Korean troops at any one time. The Chinese used "partisan hunting" to train newly arrived troops.

Ed

>>At 07:57 PM 8/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:

That might not be a good option after Chinese entered the war.  Another
landing like Inchon was always a big concern for Communists after 1951.
CPVA and NKPA both assigned a lot of dedicated troops to guard the
coast lines.  In September 1951, CPVA alone had 4 armies (which were
actually corps) at the west coast and 2 and half armies at the east coast
of Korea peninsula solely for this duty.

>From December 1952 to April 1953, in response to the UN's preparation
for a possible landing, Communists increased the strength of the coast
defense.  There were at least 6 CPVA armies, 2 NKPA armies, and 16
tank regiments deployed along the west coast, and another 2 CPVA
armies, 2 NKPA armies and 1 tank regiment along the east coast.

So it was not likely for UN to achieve another big success as in Inchon.

Jack