The Chinese Defeated the US Army in 1950
Tales of the American Empire | February 18, 2022
Korea is often called the “Forgotten War” mostly because American Generals want it forgotten. In late 1950, the Chinese Army intervened and routed the US Army. Most blame falls upon the overall commander, General Douglas MacArthur. He was certain that American air power could destroy Chinese armies. However, the Chinese had years of experience fighting the Japanese and developed tactics to evade aerial attacks. As a result, American units were outmaneuvered and defeated in several large battles by Chinese forces of similar size.
US Army X Corps Commander Lt. General Almond told officers of one regiment: “We’re still attacking and we’re going all the way to the Yalu. Don’t let a bunch of Chinese laundrymen stop you.” That regiment was overrun a few days later, by Chinese laundrymen. A US Army historian noted: “General Willoughby [MacArthur’s Chief of Staff] asserted that a Chinese intervention was highly unlikely but that if it occurred the Chinese would suffer massive casualties to UN air power. This optimism colored the plans and ideas of all subordinate commands. At the start of the massive Chinese intervention, the X Corps staff at first tried to ignore it or downplay its effect on the corps’ offensive plans. In response to the new guidance and in an attempt to react to the rapidly changing situation for which they had no contingency plans.”
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“United States Army in the Korean War”; James F. Schnabel; U.S. Army Center of Military History; 1992; https://history.army.mil/books/P&D.HTM
“The Chinese Intervention”; The Korean war; US Army Center of Military History; https://history.army.mil/brochures/kw…
“MacArthur’s Grand Delusion”; David Halberstam; Vanity Fair; September 24, 2007; https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/…
“Staff Operations: The X Corps in Korea, December 1950”; Richard Stewart; U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; 1951; https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA244…
Related Tale: “MacArthur’s Plot for War with China”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzF8G…
Related Tale: “The American Empire’s Disastrous Defeat in 1942”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1yL…
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Gee, I never saw the Hollywood movie of that one, I wonder why not?
I understand that the Hollywood TV Show “MASH” was originally planned for the American “Victory” over the Viet Cong, but when the US Army left Vietnam, in undue haste, beaten, Hollywood switched it to the “Korean War”(possibly known to the Koreans as “The American War)?”
The American army, when they engage the enemy on the ground, immediately call in “Air strikes” by the Air force, which sprays the jungle with “Ordinance”. I don’t want to sound Anti America(I’m not) but without Air force back up, they’d probably lose more often than win, particularly in steamy damp Jungle warfare…….
Those tough little Vietnamese kicked the French out of their country, and then, did the same to America(and its allies like Australia, New Zealand etc. Those Pentagon Generals, with their chests covered in Medals, don’t have to fight the wars, they get poor American youth to do it. The Generals don’t seem to lose much sleep over it, because those young American soldiers keep having to fight wars in countries they have never even heard of.
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The Generals consider population reduction as a goal in itself. Including elimination of the “low intelligence” element from their own nation:
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That is ridiculous. MASH is based on a book written about the Korean War.
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Well, I remember reading that it was going to be about the Vietnam war, and I read it in the MSM, so it must be right, Right?
Henry Kissinger said after the Vietnam War finished, “The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way the Bullfighter uses his Cape- to keep us lunging into areas of marginal political importance”
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He also said, “I refuse to believe that a little fourth rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point”.
And, after 14 years, of relentless war, Kissinger was awarded(unbelievably) a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, jointly with Vietnamese politician Lee Duc To………Kissinger took his award(and the $100,000 that went with it). Lee Duc To refused his……..AND, 56,800 brave young American soldiers died, and over 160,000 were injured, in a War started by an American False Flag Operation in the Gulf of Tonkin(Vietnam)……..
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