POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Guerrilla Warfare

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 360
• Professor: T.V.Paul

Document Summary

Strategy and limited war: korea i 31/10/2016. June 25th, 1950: nk installed communist state invades and occupies part of sk. Us intervened in ugust, china intervened on nk"s behalf (cid:507)divisions became strong between nk and sk) First major post wwii war: us led un committee, unsc passed approval resolution. September, 1950 - douglas mcarthur lands in inchon (port city) in september of 1950: pushed nk back to the border, and us forces pushed north to china"s border. Us led coalition didn"t stop, and china began to push us forces back south us retreated: armistice ended the fighting, and produced the line between nk and sk. Why was the us unable to deter china: wasn"t because of their military capability chinese forces crossed the river and engaged us forces, since chinese warnings weren"t taken seriously by the us. Initially, the us just wanted to push back nk.