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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 6406337, member: 5372&quot;]This is essentially correct information, but it was much more than that as to the decision. The Congressional Hearings, not released until the 70s, and not known to the public at the time or until the 70s, make the decision much more incredibly complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a few examples, The Chinses has already positioned 35 Divisions of the border. The Soviets had ensured the cooperation of their puppet regime and Head of State in North Korea. The intent of the Soviets was to commit a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and U.S. military interests in Asia, and use the Red Chinese as a wall of resistance. The Soviets assumed the North Korean military forces would be defeated, and to ensure this, and to commit the Red Chinese to full participation, promises of arms, equipment money and Soviet troops were denied to North Korea, using a trickling fishing approach of just enough line to keep the North Koreans committed, but not enough not to fail (to this day, the North Koreans have never forgiven the Soviet duplicity).</p><p><br /></p><p>POTUS and our military leaders were in possession of secrets and plans, including military movements by the Communists. MacArthur was not informed, for a simple reason...he had already publicly disagreed with the strategy shared with the public by POTUS, and MacArthur wanted to essentially commit the U.S. to exactly the sort of tactic that General Patton espoused at the conclusion of WW2; invade the Soviet Union now, or in MacArthur&#039;s plan, invade the Red Chinese now.</p><p><br /></p><p>The U.S. could not have defeated the Soviets then, and could not have defeated the Red Chinese in the Korean conflict, if the MacArthur plan was followed. POTUS decided to exercise the UN option, and prevent a cataclysmic war, that our military leaders predicted would be atomic. The U.S., unknown to the Red Chinese and the Soviet Union, was in possession of intelligence that solidified the Soviet readiness status of atomic weaponry. It was not pretty.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was grave concern, more than scary, and more than concern, really, that MacArthur would slip and make the Communists aware of our intelligence. After all, MacArthur had boisterously and publicly shared our lack of military preparation already, on many occasions. so, he had to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was Truman right? Consider that the Truman Doctrine survives. The MacArthur Doctrine does not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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