Building on the incompetence he’d displayed in the Philippines in World War II, MacArthur had managed to escape blame for being caught out by the North Korean invasion courtesy of the bold flanking attack he had launched against the communist invaders three months later. Just like that, the landing at Inchon had shifted the tide of the war and recast MacArthur as the savior of Korea, a standing only slightly tarnished by his continuing bungling in the conflict. The most catastrophic of these was his blithe disregard of warnings in late 1950 that Chinese forces were massing on the North Korean
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