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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 8, 2021 4:01:49 GMT
As the challenge says, how can the Korean War last the longest time? PoD is June 1950.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 8, 2021 5:43:22 GMT
As the challenge says, how can the Korean War last the longest time? PoD is June 1950. As there was never a peace deal signed, can we not say the Korean War is still ongoing. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 8, 2021 6:09:54 GMT
No, that is a definitional shift. Whilst there have been occasional incidents, there has not been a true resumption of hostilities.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 8, 2021 7:48:40 GMT
No, that is a definitional shift. Whilst there have been occasional incidents, there has not been a true resumption of hostilities. Well having the war move more forward and backwards might cause the war to last a bit longer. |
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Post by gillan1220 on Sept 15, 2021 4:35:01 GMT
Something akin to Bombs Away, which becomes World War III after the U.S. drops atomic bombs on the Yalu. Korea becomes another front in the war which ends in 1955.
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Post by miletus12 on Dec 9, 2021 2:12:21 GMT
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Post by gillan1220 on Dec 9, 2021 6:27:57 GMT
Ironically enough, MacArthur himself knew how much China was a nightmare even before 1949. The countryside was festering with communist rebels while the KMT were hopeless corrupt and incompetent. If people says there is a rifle for every blade of grass in the United States, here there will either be a Mosin Nagant, an Arisaka, or a Type 24 rifle for every blade of rice. Post-war China was awash with millions of guns and weapons of American, British, French, German, Soviet, Japanese, and locally-made designs. This was during Operation Beleaguer, when the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines were deployed to China to oversee the repatriation of Japanese nationals and the protection of American citizens/interests in the mainland. Once it became clear China was lost (even Truman himself knew that), the U.S. withdrew its military forces in May 1949. |
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Post by miletus12 on Dec 9, 2021 15:20:05 GMT
Ironically enough, MacArthur himself knew how much China was a nightmare even before 1949. The countryside was festering with communist rebels while the KMT were hopeless corrupt and incompetent. If people says there is a rifle for every blade of grass in the United States, here there will either be a Mosin Nagant, an Arisaka, or a Type 24 rifle for every blade of rice. Post-war China was awash with millions of guns and weapons of American, British, French, German, Soviet, Japanese, and locally-made designs. This was during Operation Beleaguer, when the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines were deployed to China to oversee the repatriation of Japanese nationals and the protection of American citizens/interests in the mainland. Once it became clear China was lost (even Truman himself knew that), the U.S. withdrew its military forces in May 1949.
Read the rest of the plan, and one sees why Truman had to fire MacArthur.
Bat-guano insane is not too extreme to describe what MacArthur proposed and what probably would happen as a result.
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Post by gillan1220 on Dec 9, 2021 16:06:26 GMT
Ironically enough, MacArthur himself knew how much China was a nightmare even before 1949. The countryside was festering with communist rebels while the KMT were hopeless corrupt and incompetent. If people says there is a rifle for every blade of grass in the United States, here there will either be a Mosin Nagant, an Arisaka, or a Type 24 rifle for every blade of rice. Post-war China was awash with millions of guns and weapons of American, British, French, German, Soviet, Japanese, and locally-made designs. This was during Operation Beleaguer, when the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines were deployed to China to oversee the repatriation of Japanese nationals and the protection of American citizens/interests in the mainland. Once it became clear China was lost (even Truman himself knew that), the U.S. withdrew its military forces in May 1949.
Read the rest of the plan, and one sees why Truman had to fire MacArthur.
Bat-guano insane is not too extreme to describe what MacArthur proposed and what probably would happen as a result.
MacArthur changed his tone rather quickly. |
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