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Scenes from an Unfinished War - Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966-1969 (Paperback)
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Scenes from an Unfinished War - Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966-1969 (Paperback)
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Low-intensity conflict (LIC) often has been viewed as the wrong
kind of warfare for the American military, dating back to the war
in Vietnam and extending to the present conflicts in Iraq and
Afghanistan. From the American perspective, LIC occurs when the
U.S. military must seek limited aims with a relatively modest
number of available regular forces, as opposed to the larger
commitments that bring into play the full panoply of advanced
technology and massive commitments of troops. Yet despite the
conventional view, U.S. forces have achieved success in LIC, albeit
"under the radar" and with credit largely assigned to allied
forces, in a number of counterguerrilla wars in the 1960s."Scenes
from an Unfinished War: Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966-1969"
focuses on what the author calls the Second Korean conflict, which
flared up in November 1966 and sputtered to an ill-defined halt
more than three years later. During that time, North Korean special
operations teams had challenged the U.S. and its South Korean
allies in every category of low-intensity conflict - small-scale
skirmishes along the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas,
spectacular terrorist strikes, attempts to foment a viable
insurgency in the South, and even the seizure of the USS Pueblo -
and failed. This book offers a case study in how an
operational-level commander, General Charles H. Bonesteel III, met
the challenge of LIC. He and his Korean subordinates crafted a
series of shrewd, pragmatic measures that defanged North Korea's
aggressive campaign. According to the convincing argument made by
"Scenes from an Unfinished War," because the U.S. successfully
fought the "wrong kind" of war, it likely blocked another kind of
wrong war - a land war in Asia. The Second Korean Conflict serves
as a corrective to assumptions about the American military's
abilities to formulate and execute a winning counterinsurgency
strategy. Originally published in 1991. 180 pages. maps. ill.
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