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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After the first U.S. troops, committed in battle below Seoul, had carried out MacArthur's first step and forced the enemy to deploy (map 1), MacArthur was able to foresee and plan the future course of the war. He planned a delaying retreat to a defensible beachhead (map 2), a buildup of strength behind the perimeter (map 3) and finally a breakout aided by one or more amphibious attacks behind the enemy lines (map 4). Although the Korean war brought many surprises (of which the greatest was the sudden Red collapse), the shape of the war after the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Was the War | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...their light bazookas and antitank weapons were no match for the Red armor. They fell back. But their gallant action had served, at least, as a temporary roadblock, and it forced the first great tactical mistake of the North Koreans. Apparently overestimating the U.S. strength, the Communists chose to deploy (see map). If they had driven straight on with their main armored force, they would have overrun the tiny U.S. contingent and barreled on through, without opposition, to the crucial supply port of Pusan. If they had done that, Douglas MacArthur, instead of receiving victory plaudits in Seoul last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Was the War | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Louis Johnson's economy drive. In Korea last week, a front-line officer said bitterly: "What can you do with a damn two-battalion infantry regiment? You have no base to deploy around, no reserve-and no tactics, because all our tactics are founded on the assumption that you have three full battalions to maneuver with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Old Pro | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Undergraduates, their relatives and friends, attending the annual Baccalaureate Sermon in Memorial Church Sunday, heard President Conant counsel that this nation must deploy its spiritual forces in the contest against the Soviet Creed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Emphasizes Values In Today's Secular Society | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

...Africa, met in Sydney, Australia, and produced a program. The Commonwealth nations decided to 1) set aside a fund of $22,400,000 for technical and medical aid to the countries of Southeast Asia during the next three years; 2) set up a bureau at Colombo, Ceylon, which will deploy technicians from Commonwealth countries wherever they are most needed in Southeast Asia and send youths from Southeast Asian countries to be trained in Commonwealth universities and industries; 3) invite all Southeast Asian countries to draw up six-year plans for industrial development, modernized agriculture, etc., for which the Commonwealth would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Unmonolithic Approach | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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