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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2013 15:13:57 GMT -5
1951 When Us forces were driving like the hades up the Korean Peninsula to the Yalu President Truman said he didn't want China in the fray and gave MacArthur permission to only destroy the bridge over the Yalu on the Korean side , MacArthur thought how the hell do you bomb half a bridge .
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Post by Sir John on Mar 30, 2013 15:19:32 GMT -5
very carefully.
...and what do you think Russia would have done if he had gone into China? Headed for the Channel perhaps?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2013 15:49:46 GMT -5
One of those might have beens , but for sure Big Mac wasn't afraid to take 'em all on .
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Post by mcnoch on Mar 31, 2013 3:11:07 GMT -5
I believe that he couldn't have won the Korean War. It became something bigger than just the territory over which they were fighting. It was the first sign of what to expect in the coming years of the Cold War. And you know, the Cold War was no war that could have been won militarily, as it was in its core not a military dispute, but caused by distrust for each other. The only way to win/overcome such situation is by building thrust into each other. No won war for North Korea or Vietnam would have changed that and all beyond that would have caused an exchange of nuclear destruction.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Mar 31, 2013 8:32:33 GMT -5
I believe that he couldn't have won the Korean War. It became something bigger than just the territory over which they were fighting. It was the first sign of what to expect in the coming years of the Cold War. And you know, the Cold War was no war that could have been won militarily, as it was in its core not a military dispute, but caused by distrust for each other. The only way to win/overcome such situation is by building thrust into each other. No won war for North Korea or Vietnam would have changed that and all beyond that would have caused an exchange of nuclear destruction. You think the Cold War ended because the US and the USSR learned to trust each other??? i think it ended because the USSR imploded because their economy could not keep up with the US production.... |
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Post by Swampy on Mar 31, 2013 10:10:37 GMT -5
Jerry hit it right on. In fact, the years leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall were the years of confrontation by the Reagan Era, which is now credited with running the Soviets into the ground.
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Post by mcnoch on Mar 31, 2013 14:24:16 GMT -5
Newer studies showed that the UdSSR was running on the same economical level since 1984 and could have continued for more then 20 years. The brakdown came when the political pressure inside the system was released, not because Ronald Reagans SDI or what ever. That was for many years the accepted explanation, but it is not in line with the economical data of the UdSSR.
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Post by jerryfmcompushaft on Mar 31, 2013 16:00:50 GMT -5
Newer studies showed that the UdSSR was running on the same economical level since 1984 and could have continued for more then 20 years. The brakdown came when the political pressure inside the system was released, not because Ronald Reagans SDI or what ever. That was for many years the accepted explanation, but it is not in line with the economical data of the UdSSR. And the same pressure now accounts for the subtle shift back to totalitarianism? |
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