General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, October 1949
'We'll never have any more amphibious operations. That does away with the Marine Corps. And the Air Force can do anything the Navy can do nowadays, so that does away with the Navy.'
Truman's Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, to Admiral Richard L. Connally in 1949
I guess they really thought WWII was the 'war to end wars!' Patton would have scoffed at the above statements. Brilliant and brave U.S. troops in that Korean war.