“Back in the 50s, MacArthur intimidated a victorious North Korea with a tiny force. They feared fighting us”
You have to be joking. Look up Pusan perimeter and tell me how a tiny force used intimidation and how they feared us.
It was nothing short of Raw firepower, a massive air attack, and a veteran Marine Division that stopped them.
My dad arrived there when they were worried they'd be overrun (July '50).
He was US Army with the 29th Infantry Regiment and later survived the Hadong Ambush.
He celebrated his 18th birthday in Pyongyang.
I still have the letter he wrote to my grandma on waxed paper on his birthday.
“....and a veteran Marine Division that stopped them.”
It was the 5th Marine regiment led by Col. Raymond Murray sent to re-enforce the battered 8th US Army at Pusan. The rest of the 1st Marine Division (1st, 7th, and 11th Marines) was being assembled on the West Coast using all available Marines (they even reassigned Embassy guards to the 1st.) and a call up of the Marine Reserves, which luckily had a high percentage of Pacific War Marine veterans....
The hastily reconstituted 1st MarDiv entered the war directly from the states to the shores at Inchon. Murray’s 5th Marines were pulled out of the lines at Pusan, resupplied, and rushed northward to join it’s sister regiments just before D-Day.
Post WW II, Truman’s Administration, led by Sec of War Johnson, had reduced the military to a weak shadow of itself. What military we did have was poorly trained and equipped. The very image of unpreparedness.
Obama is following this same sort of unilateral disarmament. Unadulterated foolishness. Dangerous to the US and the world, but perfect for tin pot dictators.....