[KOREAN-WAR-L:11365] Re: MASH ethics

["Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>]

Intersting...
I lived in Atlanta Georgia.
The two most important heights are Kennesaw Mountain and Stone Mountain.
Incredable view in good weather.

Ed ... do you know or have a Terrain Map of the Area around Pork Chop Hill?

Dan




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe2@korean-war.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:59 PM
Subject: [KOREAN-WAR-L:11358] Re: MASH ethics


> John C.,
>
>  >>At 09:43 PM 2/12/2004, you wrote:
> >Taking a hill just to prove we could is just "an investment in management
> >ego" and is, in my mind, criminal.<<
>
> If that were the case, I'd agree but Pork Chop Hill and the other hills in
> that complex were of tactical importance at the time since they gave U.N.
> troops command of the river valley to the north.  It was important to hold
> this terrain for the next planned advance -- which never happened because
> the cease-fire talks began.
>
>   Conversely, this same hill complex was important to the Chinese and
North
> Koreans because it would give them command of the river valley to the
> south, plus they needed to keep us from controlling there planned
advances,
> which included an attack down the Uijonbu-Seoul corriidor.  Thus this
> entire piece of terrain became some of the most fought over in the world
in
> the next two years.
>
> Ed.
>