Battle Analysis : Inchon Landing

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Battle Analysis: Inchon Landing
The Korean War

WO1 Jerry Burks

FA WOBC

February 20, 2015

Abstract

The battle at Inchon was a strategic break through establishing dynamic war planning. In the years following World War II and the potential spread of global communism, the United States was heading to another war. With the political arena playing a major role in what the American people wanted, a short and bloodless battle with limited casualties, a drastic plan was in the works. General Douglass MacArthur decided and stood by his plan for an amphibious landing at Inchon with the focus of recapturing the South Korean capital of Seoul and forcing the North Korean Army back across the 38th parallel that separated the two Koreas. As with the end to every conflict, the United States was at a disadvantage due to the downsizing of troops following the end of World War II. Through the use of strategic planning and the use of Joint Task Force operations, the United States was able to achieve mission success. A war plan that proved to be just a simple idea with a few dynamics added with understandings of integration, anticipation, and domination, reestablished the United States as a war fighting power.

A popular military aphorism stated by Earnest Hemmingway was, “Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” With the ongoing troubles of the Cold War and rising tension along the 38th Parallel that split the...

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...an. Although established as a very dynamic war planner MacArthur’s idea of execution at Inchon was going back to the basics of strike hard and strike fast. Find the vulnerabilities of your enemy and exploit them to your advantage showing no mercy. The lessons of the past are crucial to today’s operations, proving that as we end one war we must stand ready to fight the next at any given time.

Works Cited
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Montross, L. (1951, July). Marines - Accounts of the Korean War. Retrieved from Korean War Educator: http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/branch_accounts/marine/p_inchon_landing.htm
Wolmi-do Island, Inchon, 9/14/50. (n.d.). Retrieved from Korean War Online: http://www.koreanwaronline.com/arms/wolmi1.htm

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