Sorry snipe, got to slightly disagree with you on this one.
It's probably best to leave the Korean war out of this discussion, even though it's true that the war ended with non-resolution.
Fact is that MacAuthur had the North Korean Government on it's knees by mid November 1950 after the Inchon Landing. It's also a fact that if not for Chinese intervention, the war would have been over by Christmas 1950 with a single nation on the Korean Penninsula.
However, it is ALSO true that when Ridgeway took over UN forces that the Chinese took massive casualties.
In the 18 months of the heaviest fighting, the PLA took over 1,000,000 KIA. That's One MILLION troops killed in action in EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
Ridgeway had them channeled into 'killing zones', and puts lots of hot, high velocity steel on them.
Korea was unresolved not because of the tactical situation, or an on-going insurgency, rather because of the political situation (one radically different from the political situation in Iraq). Truman was worried about the non-existent (at that time) Soviet nuclear threat.
We are in agreement on a lot of it. Still politics has no place on a battlefield it gets men killed unnecessarily. The United States leadership lacked resolve. Was there even a Authorization of use of force in Korea? That is what the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was rather than a formal declaration as well as Gulf War One. MacAuthur would have indeed won it and Truman indeed fired the man or relieved him of command. MacAuthur was an honorable commander the shame is on Truman.
I stand corrected :>} Thanks for the info.