Events Upcoming
New Members
Date and Time
Saturday Aug 27, 2016
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
8/27-2pm.
Location
Korean War National Museum 9 South Old State Capitol Plaza Springfield, IL Downtown between 5th and 6th Streets.
Fees/Admission
FREE
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Contact Information
2175237230
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Description
"Unfortunately," wrote General Maxwell Taylor in the waning days of the Vietnam War, "there was no thorough-going analysis ever made of the lessons to be learned from Korea, and later policy makers proceeded to make many of the same mistakes." Taylor was not entirely correct. A critique of the Korean War emerged almost immediately after the war ended, and Korea did hang like a specter over the 1965 decision to go to war in Vietnam. In the early years of the war in Indochina, U.S. officials and pundits continued to make references to Korea and its supposed lessons. For the most part, critics of U.S. policy wielded Korea as a cautionary tale?a warning of the complications and hardships accompanying a land war in Asia. Some even argued that U.S. prospects in Vietnam would be worse than in Korea. The differences between the two wars, however, remained significant enough that American policy-makers disregarded ?the Korea analogy??to their later regret.