This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

by T.R. Fehrenbach

Perhaps, also, at the beginning a word must be said concerning discipline. “Discipline,” like the terms “work” and “fatherland”—among the greatest of human values—has been given an almost repugnant connotation from its use by Fascist ideologies. But the term “discipline” as used in these pages does not refer to the mindless, robotlike obedience and self-abasement of a Prussian grenadier. Both American sociologists and soldiers agree that it means, basically, self-restraint—the self-restraint required not to break the sensible laws whether they be imposed against speeding or against removing an uncomfortably heavy steel helmet, the fear not to spend more money than one earns, not to drink from a canteen in combat before it is absolutely necessary, and to obey both parent and teacher and officer in certain situations, even when the orders are

Brigadier General William L. Roberts,

Tongduch’on-ni road after many of them had made a night march, gave orders for a counterattack to be launched at daylight, and when the orders had gone out, paced up and down inside his CP,

Chae Byong

YAK fighters

New Orleans and the Thames and Lundy’s Lane and ignored Hull’s surrender, Wilkinson’s failures, the scuttle at Blandensburg

ambuscade

19th Infantry, the Rock of Chickamauga,

weaknesses. A Hitler can command, and men march—but a Hitler

to another through the hills is shank’s mare. But American troops, physically unhardened for foot marches, were road-bound.

Only much later, when the land is collectivized and the iron hand shows through the paternal glove, and when it is too late, does the peasant who has been Communized realize his loss. Communized, he ceases to be an individual man, losing an identity that even the most abject poverty could not take from him before.

fire brigade.

forces, Major General Lee Kwon Mu’s

Ribbon Creek,

against American troops, from Breed’s Hill

Quad .50s

Infantry