“Wasn’t it Douglas MacArthur who warned the US never to get involved in an Asian land war?”
I think so, but it could have been Joseph “Iron Pants” Stillwell.
“Wasn’t it Douglas MacArthur who warned the US never to get involved in an Asian land war?”
MacArthur’s warnings about land wars in Asia
Posted: May 27, 2012:
In 1961, Kennedy was reluctant to get America more deeply involved in Laos and Vietnam, as many of his advisers wanted. In MacArthur he found an unexpected ally.
That summer, Kennedy invited MacArthur to meet with congressional leaders, and there the retired general threw cold water on the war cries.
“He said that we would be foolish to fight on the Asiatic continent and that the future of Southeast Asia should be determined at the diplomatic table,” Attorney General Robert Kennedy reported.
MacArthur, ever the military traditionalist, was also a realist. He understood, as we increasingly do today, the danger of fighting a prolonged war in which the most likely outcome is neither a peace treaty nor a decisive victory.
they didnt have a really big dam that could wipe out a few hundred million in a day back then
but the idea of landing troops in china is nuts. right now no reason to.
apart from the logistics we dont have to support it...