SECTION 3: THIS KIND OF WAR

Choose from one of the following three questions to reflect upon your reading of Section 3 of This Kind of War.

S3: What role did initiative play for UN Forces in the Pusan Perimeter and their subsequent breakout?

S6: The Eighth Army did not realize that a hole eight miles deep and six miles across was penetrated in the front lines until two regiments were “disintegrated.”  Why was there a lapse in communication between the front lines and the Eighth Army mission command?  With these defeats, the Mission Command commanders under General Walker became profoundly “defeatist.”  How does this attitude affect MDMP?

ABLE:  What is your response to the steadfastness of MacArthur’s insistence on the Inchon landing? How does it change, had the mission gone otherwise?