Korean War Lessons

It is 1952. A new president, Eisenhower, has been elected in the US. Your task is to write a report for him on what lessons the United States can learn from the war. Your report should advise the President on:


•the US aims in Korea
•how the support of the UN helped
•how far the US achieved its aims
•whether MacArthur should have been allowed to invade North Korea
•why MacArthur was removed
•the military and civilian cost of war

The Korean War has brought us to the point of realizing the deadly spread of communism. Therefore, us going into full on war with the Soviet Union and the allies she has created such as China, would be a bad idea due to lack of preperation. Because of the rapid spread of communism throughout the world America made a decision to wage war in Korea, for north korea violated the borders of an America territory. We ultimately underestimated the abbilities of China and took their warnings of joining the war more seriously we wouldnt have pushed into north korea.

In the Korean was we can put partial blame on General MacArthur. He is the one at fault for tantalizing and underestimating the chinese. His defiance of the UN created the threat of the Chinese when he pushed his way into North Korea. The blaten defiance should not have been allowed by the U.S government and we should have removed troops as soon as Northern Korean armies had been forced out. MacArthurs removal from the Commanding position was absolutly the right decision.


The casualties of the Korean War could be totaled up to 1.4 billion. China and North Korea do carry the greater of the casulaties however, Korea itself carried the most with North Korea being the most and South Korea coming next with 570,000 civilians and soldiers killed. American and UN soldiers had the least amount of soldiers and civilian casulties with 34,500 being the death toll.

In conclusion to make the war efforts better in the future we need to prepare the U.S army way in advance and not plunge into full war on the whim. We need tactics and planning, putting all countries involved at the top of the game and not ignoring anything. We must assume that all countries are a great threat and should be prepared from all sides.