Re: Korean war was: 2nd and 3rd rate powers

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From: "John Leary" <john_t_leary@yahoo.com>

> > Doesn't necessarily do it.	The US army that started
> > off in Korea was pretty poor, as I understand it.
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> Not to mention taken by suprise, and massively
> outnumbered.

Err..perhaps the above is just mis-phrased, but...
.At the beginning of the Korea war, there weren't any US fighting troops
in
Korea (see e.g.the chronology at:http://www.korean-war.com/). So the US
troops weren't surprised. But the outbreak of the war was a
political/strategic surprise.

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