Korean War

<p><span class="deck">Our <span class="typestyle"> first</span> Korean war, in 1871, was fought to open the Hermit Kingdom to Western trade. But the hermits wanted very much to be left alone </span></p>

<p>Ridgeway commanded the 82nd Airborne in World War II, became Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and Army Chief of Staff, and played important roles in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A soldier remembers the freezing, fearful retreat down the Korean Peninsula after the Chinese armies smashed across the border</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When the President fired the general, civilian control of the military faced its severest test in our history</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">30 years after judging Eisenhower to be among our worst presidents, historians have now come around to the opinion most of their fellow Americans held right along.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were <span class="typestyle"> really</span> high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A Memoir of Korea</span></p>

<p>In an unpublicized and little known campaign, American and Russian pilots fought directly against each other south of the Yalu River.</p>

<p><span class="deck">After every war in the nation’s history, the military has faced not only calls for demobilization, but new challenges and new opportunities. It is happening again.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The half-remembered Korean conflict was full of surprises, and nearly all of them were unpleasant</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A scholar searches across two centuries to discover the main engine of our government’s growth, and reaches a controversial conclusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A young man’s journey from Brooklyn to the world, from boyhood to the glimmerings of maturity, from peace to war</span></p>

<p>Why were 20 wounded American soldiers released on Thanksgiving in 1950, days before the Chinese attacked in Korea?</p>

<p><span class="deck">The Korean War erupted 50 years ago this June. Many Americans still believe that it began in debacle (which is true) and ended in a humiliating compromise that changed nothing (which is not).</span></p>

<p>General MacArthur designated the author as engineer of the Marine invasion at Wonsan, and told him to accompany the first wave. This would sharpen his mind, MacArthur said, "like an imminent hanging."</p>

<p><span class="deck">Fifty years ago in the frozen mountains of Korea, the Marines endured a campaign as grueling and heroic as any in history.</span></p>

<p>A determined president fires his constitution-defying celebrity general in Korea.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Powered flight was born exactly one hundred years ago. It changed everything, of course, but most of all, it changed how this nation wages war.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A search begun in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse 140 years ago continues today as a $100-million-a-year effort to reunite the U.S. military and American families with their missing soldiers.</span></p>

<p>Miscalculations and blunders by world leaders precipitated the Korean War 60 years ago.</p>

<p>The late David Halberstam was a journalist, heart and soul, with a distinctive way of writing history.</p>