| David J. Whittaker - Law - 1995 - 308 pages
...certainly inside the UN building in New York agreed with the American General Omar Bradley that it was "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy". The ideal of a unified Korea was a United Nations purpose: it was not a war aim. THE PROCESS OF PEACE... | |
| Geoffrey Parker - History - 2000 - 420 pages
...aboul MacArthur's suggestion that the United States wage an all-out war on communist China: it would be 'the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy'. In early January 1951 the situation stabilized south of Seoul as UN forces under the command of the... | |
| Stanley Sandler - History - 1995 - 478 pages
...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Omar N. Bradley, a wider war in Asia "would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." Jing Li Bibliography Chang, Kia-ngau. Last Chance in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kia-ngau (1988).... | |
| James G. Hershberg - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 980 pages
...the Joint Chiefs of Staff Omar Bradley, that spreading the Korean War into China would "involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy."57 If global war must come, Conant firmly believed, let Moscow, not Washington, start it. But... | |
| Michael S. Sherry - Political Science - 1995 - 628 pages
...produced Gen. Omar Bradley 's famous repudiation of MacArthur's strategy as one that "would involve us in the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy."110 Truman and many others, then and later, construed his firing of MacArthur as a triumph of... | |
| James T. Patterson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 881 pages
...Truman, 846-47. that everyone remembers when he said that MacArthur's policies "would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." ALTHOUGH TEMPERS COOLED in May and June of 1931, they revealed a stubborn fact: Americans had small... | |
| History - 2001 - 596 pages
...of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered the prudent (udgment that a wider war with China would be " the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. " Meanwhile, MacArthur had lost all sense of propriety in his dealings with the Truman administration.... | |
| John Martin Carroll, George C. Herring - History - 1996 - 316 pages
...Bradley summed up their criticism of MacArthur's strategy for all-out conflict when he described Korea as "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." In the 1952 election the Republicans made anticommunism one of their most effective issues. At home... | |
| Robert J. Donovan - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 452 pages
...in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Bradley testified, "this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy."17 The last, of course, reflected the administration's view that the ultimate adversary was... | |
| Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...trans, by Kate Hughes (1995). Thought to refer to the poet and philosopher Lucretius. Korean War, The 1 The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. OMAR BRADLEY, (1893-1981) US general. The Military Situation in the Far East, Senate Hearings (1951).... | |
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