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"home by christmas" where have I heard this one before

Calling your planned offensive 'Operation Home by Christmas' is like telling your partner that you're 2 days from retirement in a cop movie, or a soldier showing a photo of a loved one in a war movie.

USA: Home by Christmas China: What is Christmas?

Korean War, China : "Don't cross 38th parallel!", US : "No way, shit!" Vietnam War, China : "Don't cross 17th parallel!", US : "Yes Sir!"

McArthur: Names his operation Home by Christmas History: Bad move buddy

"Home by Christmas" offensive... It's like MacArthur knew he had screwed up.

First of all, I can probably say that the Chinese did not want to get involved in this bloody conflict. China was in the middle of reconstruction after the Second World War and it would be fairly wasteful to invest in a conflict against the United States. However, consider the situation that China was in. The United States was just mere miles from the Chinese border. General MacArthur was a fairly trigger-happy general, and he made it clear that he would not mind to use the Korean War was a pretext to attack China. Even if the attack did not immediately arrive, having the American military so close to china’s industrial north and its capital city certainly does leave the Chinese extremely vulnerable to potential future attacks. Furthermore, having the Americans so close to China also made it much easier for them to perform various sabotage operations against the Chinese, further destabilizing the nation. In addition, although China did have a defence treaty with the Soviets, Stalin (and the USSR in general) was not a party that China could actually rely upon. This was proven during the actual conflict, as the USSR did not provide China with the air support it needed to counter-attack the Americans, causing China to suffer high casualties in the conflict. This sentiment was confirmed just a few years later during the Sino-Soviet split. So, given that China had unreliable (and potentially hostile) “allies” and was facing a UN force led by a very offensively-minded American general, we can assume that China joined this war mainly for its self-preservation. I hope what I said made sense. But… I would like to add that China’s biggest mistake for attempting to invade South Korea. The initial intervention in North Korea was a just defensive action and was immensely successful. With relative surplus in munitions, the Chinese were able to use blizkreig tactics to achieve the following: 1) The farthest military retreat EVER suffered by the Americans, a record that holds till this day. 2) Nearly 1:1 combat loss ratio relative to the Americans All this forced the American to attempt a ceasefire mere months after the Chinese offensive. Had the Chinese taken the ceasefire, that would have marked the end of their just defensive action. Sadly, Mao was overconfident and decided to pursue the offensive further. Pushing into the South Korea, the Chinese eventually basically ran out of food and munitions. Logistics on the Chinese were poor, so resupply was virtually non existent. It was under this context that China suffered higher casualties than the Americans during the subsequent UN counteroffensives. So rejecting the ceasefire proposal was China’s worst mistake here….. booo

MacArthur: I'll be home by Christmas! China: I'm about to end this man's whole career

The Korean War gets shadowed by the Vietnam war so much, it’s nice to see more information on it👍

Stalin screwed china over with the Korean War. He promised heavy aid from air support to providing supplies for China for intervention in the war, but actually provided little. The Chinese troops fight well when they are under supplied, with little to no firepower and under enemy air superiority.

So it was 300k Chinese army vs 700k UN army with better equipment of course.

Interesting fact: After the Korean War, the US military began to attach great importance to special operations and night operations, and the PLA began to attach great importance to mechanization and heavy fire support. Up to now, the US military has the world's most expensive night vision device, and PLA, even the COOKING SQUAD carry a throwaway anti-tank rocket launcher for each one.

a topic covered too rarely on KZfaq.

USA, South Korea, and their allies: Korean War seems over for all of us. North Korea: Looks like I'm gon- China: *Allow me to introduce myself*

I have many stories to tell. My grandfather served in the Ninth Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers and participated in the second battle. In the battle outside the 三所里, his company survived only four soldiers who could fight, but they were still quickly incorporated into other teams and groups. After hearing the sound of the bugle, they charged the defense line consisting of three tanks, semi permanent concrete fortifications and machine gun fire points, and their weapons were only Soviet assisted ppsh41, Moxinagan rifles and Sanpaci shiki hohei ju. The soldiers of the two battalions participated in the offensive mission, The heavy firepower and support firepower they could get sounded like a joke: there were only two SG43 heavy machine guns and a Japanese 75mm cannon (this was far more than the average luxury configuration). During the second campaign of the Korean War, the temperature on the North Korean Plateau reached minus 45 degrees Celsius, which was the coldest winter in Korea for half a century, A large number of soldiers from southern China are seriously short of warm clothing (More than one third of the front-line soldiers of the regiment still wear autumn uniforms, and the winter cotton padded clothes are far from being able to cope with the same cold temperature as the Moscow campaign of World War II. The food is only the powder made of beans and rice. One fifth of the soldiers suffer from night blindness to varying degrees. Even 125 soldiers of an entire company are frozen to death in the ambush position. When the scout who delivered the order arrives, he finds that they are still frozen to death Holding a crawling posture for battle), the non combat casualties of the Ninth Corps were four times that of the casualties in this battle. The morale and fighting spirit of the CPC army were frightening, but the backward logistics was a disaster. Soldiers once created a miracle of walking, completed 72 kilometers of mountain march in 14 hours, and carried out tactical interposition against the enemy, However, the backward equipment and logistics make it impossible for them to expand and consolidate their combat achievements. Their terrible experience is far beyond my imagination. May the war never happen again.

Just found out about your channel. I’m fascinated with the work you’ve done, all the given information and 3D map designs.

Everybody is a Gangsta until the Chinese cross the Yalu river

1950 United States:GDP $ 270 billion China: GDP $ 10 billion United States: Army, Navy, Air Force China: Army United States: F86 M26 M3 M19 M41-155 M1-Garand ..... China: M1917 Type38 Grenade American soldiers: sleeping bags, cans, hot coffee, body armor, helicopter transport Chinese Soldier: Southern Cotton Coat + Fried flour + Snow

General McArthur: "We'll be Home by Christmas!" Anyone with any sense: "You bastard."

finally an unbiased war theme video about the Korean war, I saw many videos about the Korean war only showed how great the USA and their allies was lol.

Didn't know China was ferociously fighting against the whole UN before, this war is way underreported, maybe because it doesn’t look so good for the UN force. Anyway keep up the good work and really enjoyed the information, glad to know more about this war!

When I think about the Chinese offensive in late 1950, I think about the 1st Marine and 7th Army division on the eastern side of the frontline. Thank you for making this video about the events on the western part of the frontline.

Dang, the relatively simplistic, but somehow at the exact same time detailed map and icons made understanding the War sooooo much easier for me (especially as a visual learner. Like I can read the Wiki article and history books, but place names tend to just blur together (not just Korean, even French and Italian campaigns and whatnot) for me and tend to lose track...but this was absolutely superb towards helping me understand the situations in who was attacking where and how that affected their neighboring flanks, and even the roads and bridges over the rivers and whatnot. Love it, hope for more

"Home by Christmas Offensive" This erases all claims to brilliance McArthur ever made.

Here's something few remember: while Soviet air support was limited, Stalin did make due on his promise to provide some air support for China's intervention. When the UN forces shot down some "Chinese" planes, they noticed that the pilots inside were Soviets. It's likely that these Soviet pilots were training the Chinese on how to fly such planes. At home though, the US never revealed such information until long after the Korean War ended, as such a revelation would've resulted in outcries for war against the USSR, and both the US and USSR understood that such a war was the last thing anyone needed.

God i love this video the visuals and explanations is amazing

Good animation, detailed storytelling and convenient subtitles. Thanks

I'm impressed how the Chinese can cross the yalu River and move across a thick earthly layer of forest at the same coordinated time

I am a doctor in China. I have a patient who is 90 years old. He came to treat his knee pain.He wore a long military uniform and had many wartime Distinguished Conduct Medals on it. He told me he had a gunshot wound in his right focile. He often dreamt that he was still in the cave and hearing the bomb of American planes outside.He joined the red army during the long march in 18 years old and survived all these years.Then he was sent to Korea and became part of Volunteer Army. Wish for China and the US can work to ensure peaceful and stable world.

I come from south China where it never snows, my grandfather took part in the Korean War, he said it was the first time to see snow, it was too cold, there were not enough clothes, many comrades froze to death. It was a very bitter war.

China: "hey US would you like your own Long March?"

China used armies of infantry to push back armies that grossly surpassed them in terms of tanks, aircraft and artillery. Truly an impressive feat.

its the people who wrote "The Art of War" after all

You guys really nailed this series. Well done

Thank you for a very informative video.

Home by Christmas where have I heard that before

Tecumseh and the Korean War are probably my favorite videos or miniseries you guys have done, major props to the visual artists and the screen writers to make these historical events and people more whole 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

The Chinese hate war, but never fear war.

USA: Retreat? hell no, we’re just attacking in a different direction. LOL

"For over a hundred years, foreign powers had viewed Chinese armies with contempt, believing they had neither the leadership, nor the expertise, nor the will to fight a modern war. No longer." - Professor Richard Baum, UCLA, describing the impact of the Korean War in [The Fall and Rise of China].

Underestimating it's opponents and overestimating itself, pretty much sums up every military campaign of the US since WWII. Let's also not forget that this is China at one of it's weakest points in it's 4,000+ year history.

Great piece of history, great video!

Fascinating doco. Thanks!

Quality is getting better day by day! :)

The Korean intervention meant that the US never dared to cross the 17th parallel in Vietnam, which practically sealed the outcome of that war.

when the fight ceased, Chinese soldiers with drawn, and the US soldiers settled down in South Korea permenently. Same to Japan, Germany, Iraq and so on. History repeats again and again. Ppl are just blind.

One of my favorite cold war topics to read about criminally undercovered This might be the first extensive video on this topic on yt as other times I've looked it up there was only movie clips I like this video despite the plug in the beginning and will subscribe. I'd also like to petition a video in the San Patricio Brigade during the Mexican-USA war and the attack on the USS Liberty

Wait, 370k vs 723k and the latter had superior weaponry. What is it that I am missing here?

Kim: Prepare for trouble... Mao:...and make it double!

My father joined the PLA in 1950 to fight in Korean War. During a march he was hit by a stray bullet but didn't know. Afterwards he found the bullet in his pocket and a dictionary with a hole in it. He realized that the small dictionary which he put in his pocket had saved his life. When I asked him why he didn't keep it he said one day it got severly damaged in rain and pages stuck together in a mess. He had no choice but to abandon it. He passed away 7 years ago.

5:51 "home by Christmas" this never gets old 🤦‍♂️

Though this was a great video overall, and though it was very informative, i think that some of the sound effects, particularly the artillery fire that came around 5:10 were a bit too loud, and distracted a bit from what was being said.

对死去的志愿军战士致以最崇高的敬意!

My great uncle, William H. Johnson was lost during these battles. He is listed as MIA, and his remains were never recovered. The thought of him, and his constant presence in my grandfather's mind has always left a melancholy feeling in my family. His unit was 7th infantry regiment, F company, 2nd battalion, 3rd Infantry Division. He went MIA December 3rd, 1950, near Huk-su-ri. I've tried and tried to find more information on the particulars of his area of battle, but have come up mostly empty. Thanks for shedding some light on The Forgotten War.

My Uncle Glen Reed fought in this war and recently passed away this year in June of Alzheimer's disease.

very clear exhibition, good work

中国当年为了立一个国，容易吗？打那么多仗，但凡是个中国人，都会对军人抱有最大的敬意

If anything we should learn , is that never underestimate China military .

UN: We are a nation of nations,nobody can defeat us,Together we are Strong China: Hold my Beer

Nice history video thanks 1👍

highly excellent illustration... eye catching and simple to grasp by even a lesser keen brain...

Animation in these modern warfare videos really is top notch.

And remember, these chinese forces lacked artillery, tanks and airwing yet they steamrolled them ...

Excellent video

Chinese volunteers soldiers were very brave... They fought the American imperialist and its allies. At that time China was lack of weapons but the volunteers soldiers fought and win this brutal war. I salute to those brave soldiers.

Hi K&G guys... I am writing this on behalf of a small group of guys who are interested in (unbiased) History : We keep on watching your videos with utmost pleasure. We just want say " keep up the good work" . We learn the history most-possible-unbiased way in your channel. GREETINGS FROM TURKEY.

"Home by Christmas Offensive". Everyone: Hey I've seen this one before. Macarthur: What do you mean? It's brand new

I have to say the 2nd Phase Offensive of Peng is just masterpiece.

The multiple instances of bad or delayed intel suggests that the intel was being shaped as part of the strategy. They knew to pull back enough for the reports to look a certain way, and continued to monitor that the reports were being mistakenly consumed to be used in bad estimates. An interesting point to keep in mind.

There were some significant aspects missing from this video which led to erroneous conclusions. The Chinese leadership had sent a letter to the U.S. government telling them that they could unite the Koreas, but if they put an invasion army along the Yalu River, they would interpret this as a sign that the U.N. army was going to invade China and they would not allow that (the western colonial powers had been tossed out of China less than a year ago at this point). When MacArthur put an invasion army on the Yalu River, with clear intentions to invade China, the Chinese attacked, pushing them back. However, unlike the video here, they then crossed the Yalu River and went back to Chinese territory. Message received right? Nope. The same thing happened again. However, the third time that MacArthur placed an invasion army on China's border they realized that they could not allow U.N. forces to exist peacefully on their border, so they pushed them back into South Korea and bottled them up there until the U.N. forces called for an Armistice. This U.S. Korean War Documentary describes the Chinese actions: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJ9xgtyj3NG1cZs.html It is extremely doubtful that the Chinese were willing to attempt to capture all of Korea as this would likely lead to China being nuked by the allied powers (MacArthur was insistent on such a strategy, which is why he was removed from command). A closer look at the events of the Korean War leads to the inevitable conclusion that the U.N. forces were using the goal of 'uniting the Koreas' as a pretext for a new invasion of China. The war was, after all, less than a year since the western forces had been forced out of China, thereby losing their colonial territories within China, as well as the Chinese market and people to exploit. They didn't want to leave and now they were back, but none could have guessed how effective the PLA would be in fighting them. This is why the western countries collectively agreed to not teach about the Korean War in any great detail in their education systems and it has since became known as "the forgotten war".

"Retreat? Hell we are just attacking in a different direction!!" Said by O.P. Smith USMC. At Chosin.

War class 101: Never mess with China, and don't bomb on China land no matter how many allies you have.

*The longest retreat in US military history; withdrawal to the 38th Parallel*

I am geniunely by the PLA's conduct in this war. I mean they fought hard and well.

Excellent video as always. Thanks for doing a video about a war that isn't highlighted or 'forgotten' in that sense. Can you also do South America in regards in the 1800s, the various revolutions and the wars between the South American countries?

The war my grandpa fought as a young lieutenant in PV Army. Though PVA was inferior in weapons and equipment, they were highly experienced soldiers thru Japanese war and civil war. It wasn’t pretty but they won respect from US soldiers by taking them back to 38 parallel. I still remember he said a boulder dropped from sky cleaving a young captain head open right in front and brain splashing everywhere. That was cruelty of a real war. Wish there would not be one like that anymore.

The Chinese military was extremely ill equipped at that time compared to the US. The Chinese economy was also very undeveloped. As a result, they were unable to support their push all the way to the South of the Korean peninsular. The US commander who replaced Douglas MacArthur, Matthew Ridgway, was very sharp to detect the weakness of the Chinese supply line and was able to capitalise on that to push the Chinese all the way back to the 38th parallel. Imagine this was the Chinese military at that time. Would the US be prepared to go to war with China now?

the virgin McArthur vs the chad Peng De Huai

Korea - prepare for trouble China - make in double Soviet union - il sit here in my bubble Edit : thanks for the likes

The Chinese were outnumbered, no air support, no tanks, old weapons, low in ammunitions and with little provisions yet achieved such great result, it's remarkable and amazing. It's great strategy. Imagine Chinese were equipped better. Today Korean may be united and the government may not be the same. Could be as capitalist as China and embracing the world. Cold weather is Chinese greatest enemy, because of that many died and disabled. USA just want to involve in Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan to encompass China. Just like it encompasses Russia from Europe now reaching Ukraine not allowing Russia to ease.

When it comes to Chinese intervention in the War, there are lots of finger-pointing between those viewing the war from different vintage points. Before anyone accuses anyone of "re-writing history", it behooves the accuser to first do some research into what the history is supposed to look like by relying on academically credited resources. Here are some scholastic consensuses in the West on Korea War related issues that are not generally touched on in popular media: *1, prior to the war, both Koreas were actively preparing for war and determined to conquer each other by military means.* No credited historians question the fact that South Korea under the dictatorship of Rhee Syng-man was just as hell-bent on militarily crashing the North as Kim was on crashing the South. His government was so antithetical to the division of Korea that South Korea government took no part in the subsequent peace negotiation and didn't even sign the truce in 1953. Rhee never recognized the 38th line and various plans had been drawn up by South Korea of invading and annexing the North.(Since South Korea's democratization in late 1980, these plans had been declassified.) The only problem was the South Korea army was much weaker due to the less-than-abundant American military aids/weapon transfer. (In contrast, the Soviet sponsored the North lavishly.) While the North attacked first, the intention of eventually crossing the 38th line and vanquishing the other side on battlefield was the same for both sides. *2, Kim Il-sung started the war without China's knowledge.* Kim and CCP were indeed allies. The former lent the later substantial support when CCP was on defensive in Manchuria under the KMT's onslaught during 1946-1947. When CCP finally turned the tiding around in Chinese Civil War in 1949, Kim approached Mao and asked for reciprocal support in the upcoming Korean Civil War. To Kim's chagrin, Mao sternly warned him against starting a war, pointing out the fact that unlike the Chinese Civil War, which was purely a domestic affair, the 38th line was legitimized by the UN resolutions. Crossing the line inevitably risked Great Power's intervention. The disappointed Kim went to Moscow instead and acquired Stalin's approval. When North Korean launched sudden attack on June 25th 1950, CCP leadership was as caught off-guard as the South Koreans were. *3, CCP's interests and intentions were aligned against being dragged into Korea War in 1950.* The Battle of Hainan, the last major battle of Chinese Civil War only ended in May 1950. KMT, though having largely retreated to Taiwan, was still in control of many groups of islands right off the Chinese coast, where it stationed its army that was still half a million strong. Its powerful air-force and navy completely dominated the air and sea and regularly bombarded the Mainland targets. In vast parts of Southwestern China, where CCP marched in only a few months before, the disintegrated Nationalists forces were reorganized in to guerrilla bands and continued to wage mobile wars against CCP, giving the latter a taste of its own medicine.(The assortment of anti-Communist forces had 2 million fighting men in 1950, and compelled CCP to launch the "Banditry Elimination Campaigns", which lasted into late 1952.) At the time the CCP's attention and resources were entirely dedicated to consolidating its control of the Mainland, building its air-force/navy from scratch, readying its force for the "liberation" of Tibet, and preparing for the upcoming Battle of Taiwan, which was planned to be launched in the summer of 1951. The last thing CCP wanted was being dragged into a foreign war before the final defeat of KMT. Even more nightmarish for CCP was the scenario of American intervention into the Chinese Civil War on the side of KMT. The need to avoid such occurrence was the primary reason why Mao strenuously tried to dissuade Kim from stirring up trouble in Korean Peninsular while the Chinese Civil War was still raging on. *4, US moved its fleet into Taiwanese strait immediately after the war's outbreak.* The fact Kim took the matter into his own hand without informing CCP did not register with the Americans, who saw the Communist world as a monolithic block, where all Communists were puppets of Moscow. (Such block-based perception was also the catalyst for America's intervention in Vietnam War a decade later.) On June 27th, two days after the war's outbreak, Trumen ordered the 7th fleet to sail into the strait of Taiwan and declared the inclusion of Taiwan into America's strategic defense circle in the Pacific. From CCP's perspective, it was an act of naked aggression - the USA, despite its emphatic assurance of non-intervention in the Chinese Civil War, (as pronounced in its official White Paper issued in August, 1949,) now blatantly went back on its own words and entered the Chinese Civil War without any provocation from CCP. *5, CCP only moved to preparing intervention after the UN force pushed north of the 38th line.* There had been debate among the Allies as to whether to stop at the 38th line, or to cross the line only to further destroy the North Korean army and then withdraw back to the South, or to push for the complete destruction of the North Korean state and the annexation of all its territories into the South. General MacArthur most adamantly insisted upon the last option and he prevailed in the end. It represented a controversially "expensive" interpretation of the UN mandate, which simply defines the objective as "stopping aggression". It also ignored CCP's repeated warnings that China would not "sit and watch" should the UN force cross the 38th line. On Oct1st, UN force crossed the line. On Oct. 8th, CCP's Politburo reached the decision of sending in PVA. On Oct 15th, MacArthur assured Truman the Chinese were simply posturing and the UN forces would secure the Chinese Border in the next few days and the soldiers would return home before Christmas. On Oct. 19th, PVA crossed the Yalu River. The rest is history. *6, Kim Il-sung would enter Manchuria should he be defeated in North Korea.* Pursuant to the existing treaties signed between CCP and Kim's party (initially in 1947 then again in 1949), in the event of Kim's defeat on Korean Peninsular, CCP was obligated to permit Korean Communist to retreat to Manchuria, where it could regroup and set up a guerilla base as it did in WWII. Further more, Stalin gave CCP explicit instruction that Kim should rebuild his force in Manchuria if he was forced out of North Korea. That would be disaster for CCP and China in general for two reasons: firstly, it would significantly undermine China's sovereignty in Manchuria, given that Kim would operate as a "state within state", enlisting support from local Korean ethnic minorities. (It would bear directly analogy to the Palestinian Liberation Organization's retreat to Jordan, and later Lebanon, after its expulsion by Israel. The PLO's creation of a "state within state" led to both war with Jordan and Lebanese Civil War.) Secondly, it would likely trigger MacArthur's invasion of Manchuria, justified by the same "expensive" interpretation of the UN mandate. Given the UN forces ignored the Inter-Korean border in pursuit of Kim, there was little reason to believe they would definitely stop at the Chinese-Korean border should Kim retreat to Manchuria. CCP was in no position to defy Stalin by refusing Kim's entry. The only effective strategy of forestalling its happening was to not let Kim be pushed out of North Korea. *7, even without Kim's retreat to Manchuria, there were many signposts suggesting the US might be planning to use Korea as the springboard to launch direct invasion of Mainland China in coordination with KMT.* General MacArthur visited Taiwan on July 31st, where he made some dramatic speeches on solidarity with the Nationalists in common struggle against the Communists. There was also the discussion on airlifting Nationalist divisions directly to Korea. (Remember, this happened without CCP's provocation, as it was still 2 month and 1 week before the CCP finally decided to participate in Korean War.) KMT propaganda made maximum hay of the visit, proclaiming it as the beginning of Chinese Civil War Phase II, where KMT would fight alongside Americans to take the Mainland China back, starting from Manchuria. Chiang Kai-shek himself was thrilled at such proposals. (Ever since KMT's loss of Mainland China, its propaganda machine had been dialed up to 11, blaring out assertions 24/7 that the defeat on Mainland was merely a temporary setback, and the US would join the war soon, and the counter-attack was imminent.) The war plan KMT drafted up involved deploying four Nationalist army groups to Korea to attack across the Manchurian border in conjunction with a massive amphibious assault, simultaneously launched from Taiwan. Blessed with hindsight, we know now that Truman eventually overruled MacArthur and refused to endorse Chiang's attempt at escalation. CCP leadership in the summer of 1950 did not know that. With American soldiers a stone's throw away from the Yalu River, the prospect of American invasion of Manchuria on behalf of & in coordination with its KMT allies did not at all seem far-fetched - America's unprovoked intrusion into the Taiwanese Strait heralded that, General MacArthur publicly talked about that, KMT itself openly mobilized for that - what more convincing did the CCP leadership need? If the Americans, in their determination to crash Communism in both Korea and China, was bent on making CCP the next target anyway, getting the Americans bogged down in Korea before they could cross the Chinese border was naturally the most sensible surviving strategy for CCP.

Please do Indo Pakistani war of 1965/1971. Very rarely talked about but involves great strategic planning. Most will love it. Especially the decisive 1971 war.

Awesome video! I've been waiting for this. Out of curiosity, what sources did you use? I don't doubt your level of research, I just want to read more about the Korean war myself.

Love the way this guy narrates, evacuation of 100k strong is deemed a "chrismas miracle"

Cool documentary. I'd pay for a detailed video game of this war

Thanks finally is here, Thanks king&General I was waiting since 14:00, o'clock

We will be home by Christmas. Two-Three years later: We will be home by Christmas

This animation is amazing...

The fact that China fought the United Nations in 1950 by choice is VERY CONCERNING, because they survived and weren't nearly as strong as they are today.

The Chinese crawled for over 200 miles to get in position avoiding detection. What a feat!

I think, the real problem on the USA side is their much worshiped commander in chief Gen. Douglas McArthur. McArthur has gained his fighting experience mostly during the Pacific war with small scale battles on islands where he was hopping between them. This experience didn't help him further in such large scale infantry battle fields with more than 1 million troops. For example in a bigger land area like in Philippines he has failed completely against Japanese. The only idea McArthur had after the battles in video was asking for nukes. McArthur's successor Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway performed much better than him, because Matthew Ridgway has gained his experience in massive infantry battles against the much stronger Wehrmacht infantry of Nazi Germany.

谁敢横刀立马 唯我彭大将军！！向七十年前在那场立国之战牺牲的志愿军致敬！

Awesome Thumbnail And Intro.✅✅✅.

Kings and Generals is one of those channels you leave a like even before watching.

It's amazing how battles, wars can turn around because of a lack of respect. Keep your foot on the pedal!!!! Never under value your foe!!!!

2:38 quality content. You can see the reflection of the flag in the water

Withdrawal to the 38th Parallel is referred to as *"the longest retreat in US military history."*

MCARTHUR should have stopped at the Korean border. Instead he pushed into Chinese territory and got China involved.

Kings & Generals as a suggestion, make an video about the Great Game (Afghanistan) between Russian Empire and the British. Thanks. Good day.