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...soldiers is restricted . .. because supplies must be brought to them by vehicles. Thus, the enemy is able to advance in other areas, infiltrating and outflanking . . . With a proper complement of mounted units, cavalry, pack artillery and pack trains, because of their great cross-country mobility, the enemy infiltration and flank attacks could have been checked or prevented...
...extreme western flank, the Eighth Army was still hanging back below the 38th parallel: General Van Fleet seemed unwilling to give up his useful water anchor on the Imjin (which flows into the Han estuary); a forward move in that area would widen his front painfully...
Arkansas' William Fulbright pressed Bradley about J.C.S. messages sent to MacArthur after the first Chinese attack, expressing concern about the way his X Corps on the eastern flank was getting separated from the Eighth Army...
...advantage of that situation, did they not?" Said Bradley: "Yes, they did." FULBRIGHT : "... As a result... we suffered our heaviest casualties of this war?" BRADLEY: "Well, Senator, it is hard to sit back here and say how many of those lost were due to the fact that the right flank was exposed or how many of them were due to the fact that the Chinese hit him harder than he expected. I think it is a little bit unfair for me to sit here now and try to say . . . But I think . . . that, knowing what I knew at the time...
While U.S. forces are trying to hold Western Europe and Asia, Communism might turn the flank from Iran. An American engineer, an old Iran hand, put it this way: "The 38th parallel runs right through Iran. We wouldn't even have to learn a new name...