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Title: Inchon and the Course of U.S. Foreign Policy
Author : American Diplomacy
Release Date : January 16, 2008
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 50 KB

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Editor's Note: The audacious Inchon landing was a dramatic military success that changed the course of the Korean War in 1950. However, its outcome also sharpened the Cold War policy debate between advocates of containment and those favoring liberation. Containment prevailed. --Ed. Inchon! Among military historians and scholars, the name Inchon connotes daring, audacity and military genius. Fifty-eight years ago, on September 15, 1950, U.S. military forces, led by the 1st Marine Division, seized that strategic South Korean port, moved swiftly inland to take Kimpo Airfield, and by the end of September, after intense and bloody fighting, took Seoul, the South Korean capital, from communist forces. The amphibious landing at Inchon achieved tactical and strategic surprise. At one brilliant stroke, the Inchon landing relieved the pressure on the remaining U.S. and South Korean forces dug in at the Pusan perimeter, severed the North Korean supply lines, and forced the communist forces into a headlong retreat across the 38th parallel.