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Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War

Combat Ready?: The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War

Hanson, Thomas E.

Hardcover

Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History, Book 129

Korean WarVietnam War

ISBN10: 1603441670
ISBN13: 9781603441674
Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
Published: Mar 30 2010
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the decades since the forgotten war in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of the Communist forces. Now, military historian Thomas E. Hanson argues that the generalizations historians and fellow soldiers have used regarding these troops do little justice to the tens of thousands of soldiers who worked to make themselves and their army ready for war.

In Hanson's careful study of combat preparedness in the Eighth Army from 1949 to the outbreak of hostilities in 1950, he concedes that the U.S. soldiers sent to Korea suffered gaps in their professional preparation, from missing and broken equipment to unevenly trained leaders at every level of command. But after a year of progressive, focused, and developmental collective training--based largely on the lessons of combat in World War II--these soldiers expected to defeat the Communist enemy.

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