Tag: Korean War

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It is not easy to end a war. The frustration, hatreds, and objectives only half-achieved at the expense of so many lives make the negotiations very difficult. One war, which was ended despite the objectives of the belligerents only being half-achieved, was in Korea. (more…)

LTC Gordon “Jack” Mohr. This photo was taken in Japan, when Mohr was a Captain. The patch indicates that he was in the 9th Corps of the US Army. Notice the serious expression on his face.

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War shapes societies. The so-called “forgotten war,” the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, shaped America in many ways. It was the first genuinely hot conflict between the free world, led by the United States, and the Communist world, led by the Soviet Union. Events in Korea led to a multi-decade Cold War which either blew hot or threatened to blow hot in many parts of the globe. The Korean War also came as a surprise. A bigger surprise was the fact that the American military, which had so overwhelmingly triumphed in the Second World War, had atrophied in just five years. The first year of the conflict was filled with humiliating retreats and setbacks.

The war also shaped America in that the conflict caused the national security state to come into being. (more…)

President Franklin Roosevelt declares war on Japan on December 8, 1941. The Second World War was the last time the United States formally declared war in any conflict.

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Joe Biden ordered a strike on Houthi-controlled northern Yemen in retaliation for Houthi piracy in the Red Sea on January 12, which in turn was Houthi retaliation for United States support for Israel in the ongoing Gaza conflict. This strike consisted of 150 precision-guided munitions and missiles. Five people were killed. (more…)

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Correlli Barnett
The Verdict of Peace: Britain Between Her Yesterday and the Future
London: Faber and Faber, 2001

See also: The Collapse of British Power, The Audit of War, & The Lost Victory

[This] book — again like its predecessors — is written from the standpoint of ‘Total Strategy,’ a concept first defined in the preface to The Collapse of British Power in 1972 as ‘strategy conceived as encompassing all the factors relevant to preserving or extending the power and prosperity of a human group in the face of rivalry from other human groups.’ (more…)

Col. Robert McCormick during the First World War.

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Military mid-level management

McCormick’s military career couldn’t be replicated today. In today’s United States military, either a college student is recruited to take classes in military leadership, or an enlisted man is selected to attend officer candidate school. Then, after 12 years of service, he may be promoted to Major. At no time during those 12 years can the soldier leave the service, and he must serve in a series of specific jobs. Any deviation from the norm means no promotion. (more…)

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Studying military history is entertaining and practical. You might not be interested in war, but war is certainly interested in you. On September 10, 2001, I was expecting to spend as much free time as I could hunting that autumn, but by mid-morning the next day I was focused on training for a real war.

War is often the summit of achievement, be that an achievement of a national leader, a nation, or an individual. (more…)

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Edward H. Miller
A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, & the Revolution of American Conservatism 
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021

Professor Edward H. Miller has written a solid biography of Robert Welch, Jr., the founder of the anti-Communist John Birch Society. The book’s only flaw is that it is written from the perspective of a nice white liberal believer in the mainstream media and the reigning “civil rights” narrative. For example, Miller actually mentions Welch’s “white privilege.” (more…)

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The Steel Helmet
Directed by Samuel Fuller
Starring Gene Evans, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, & Richard Loo
1951

Samuel Fuller’s excellent movie The Steel Helmet (1951) was called “a Right-wing fantasy” by the Communist paper, The Daily Worker. The America First/anti-Communist Right called for, and got, an FBI investigation into its Jewish director, Samuel Fuller (more…)

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In the yishuv (Jewish Palestine), various terrorist groups led by the likes of future Israeli prime ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir (more…)

Nikolai Getman, Gulag Prisoners

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Editor’s Note:

Dara Halley-James is the pseudonym of an author who has published well-received “mainstream” books under her real name. The following is the first in an extended series of excerpts from the penultimate draft of the forthcoming book The Sixty Million: How Leading Jewish Communists, Zionists and Neocons Brought on a Dozen Holocausts.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy

Edited by Kerry Bolton

Editor’s Note:

Late in 1951 Francis Parker Yockey was approached by a member of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s staff and was asked to write the Senator a speech. This association drew the attention of the FBI. The Bureau regarded the speech as the work of Senator McCarthy, but remained uncertain about the association between McCarthy and Yockey.  (more…)