Policy and Direction: The First Year
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.
United States Army in the Korean War
When North Korea attacked the South on June 25, 1950, United States forces in East Asia were under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, whose largest ground force was Eighth US Army.
This book records an important chapter in the Korean War. It begins with the last weeks of the pell-mell rush of United Nations forces to the Chinese border and goes...
This volume describes the initial direction and strategy of the first major though limited war that the United States was to fight on the continent of Asia in the era of global tension that followed World War II. There are marked ...
Book 1
Truce Tent and Fighting Front
Originally published: Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army, 1972, under title: Policy and direction.