...most widely misunderstood remarks in post war military history is General Bradley's oft-quoted ". . . wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy . . ." made in reference to expanding the scope of the Korean War of the 50s. This remark was prompted...

...are at war with us, I fail to understand your statement the other day, or the comment that, "it is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." It s.eems to me that the enemy is involved, and it might be the wrong place. Certainly, war at any...

...as MacArthur wished, would lead "to a larger deadlock at greater expense" and "would involve us in the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy." Yet MacArthur's many comments to the press during that sad December filled the world with fear. The...

...most widely misunderstood remarks in post war military history is General Bradley's oft-quoted ". . . wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy . . ." made in reference to expanding the scope of the Korean War of the 50s. This remark was prompted...

...particularly if he lured Israel into the fight. A generation earlier, Omar Bradley had warned against waging "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." Whatever policy failings had contributed to the crisis in the Persian Gulf, George Bush was now convinced,...

...the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. [Gen. Omar N. Bradley at Senate hearings, May 15, 1951] Questions 1. What arguments does General Bradley...

...Asian war that might undermine that objective. As he said a general war with China "would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." 68 Because he did not want to let Korea fall to the Communists in North Korea and China, Bradley was...

...Asian war that might undermine that objective. As he said a general war with China "would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy."68 Because he did not want to let Korea fall to the Communists in North Korea and China, Bradley...

...much-quoted testimony of General Bradley (to extend the fighting in the mainland of Asia would "involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy"16) emphasises the operational effects on the prosecution of the war itself of the premise that...

...at the front.89 In the oft-quoted words of Joint Chiefs of Staffs chairman Omar Bradley, Korea was "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy."90 War had become routinized in ways that destroyed the old forms of unit cohesion, redefined...