| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 153 pages, 5 unnumbered pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; number 129 |
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Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 129.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Postwar or prewar Army? -- The bumpy road from rhetoric to readiness -- The 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division -- The 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division -- The 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division -- The 8th Cavalry Regiment (Infantry), 1st Cavalry Division (Infantry) -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
"Historians and sliders have not been kind to either [General Douglas] MacArthur or the soldiers whom he placed in harm's way in the summer of 1950 ... This study seeks to redress the imbalance that exists between fact and interpretation. For too long historians and soldiers have roundly criticized Task Force Smith's performance, extrapolated from its fate a set of assumptions about what constitutes readiness, and then used those assumptions to condemn the entire Eighth Army. The reality is much more complex. A proper examination of the historical record reveals wide disparities in the readiness and combat effectiveness of the subordinate units of America's first forward-deployed Cold War field force ... This work will demonstrate how units achieved that readiness by means of case studies of four infantry regiments, one from each of the four infantry divisions that constituted the Eighth Army in 1950. It synthesizes contemporary training doctrine, training records generated by maneuver units, unit histories, reports of inspections by outside agencies, contemporary self-assessments, and the observations of veterans who served in Japan in the fifteen months before the outbreak of the Korean War. It challenges the long-standing reputation of the Eighth Army as flabby, dispirited, and weak"--Introduction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-151) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Army. Army, 8th -- History
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Army. Army, 8th fast |
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USA Army 8 gnd |
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Regimental histories -- United States
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Operational readiness (Military science)
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HISTORY -- Military -- Korean War.
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Operational readiness (Military science)
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Regimental histories
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Koreakrieg
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Militärausbildung
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1603443355 |
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9781603443357 |
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