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A 3 page paper. One criticism of American Generals is that they cannot anticipate client wars. The Korean Conflict is discussed in terms of it being a client war and also in the use of surrogate armies. The writer comments briefly on Vietnam, indicating this as another client war. Finally, the essay briefly discusses Iraq and the War on Terrorism. The writer suggests this began as one thing and has become another, a client war. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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(2002), for instance, said: "Korea was a war America did not expect to fight and had no plans for fighting." As a result, the American military forces were not at
all prepared to fight that war. Nonetheless, Holloway (2002) also said that even though unprepared, "it was a war American had to fight." It wasnt that long after the
end of World War II, in 1950, that America began sending advisers and other resources to Korea. It was the beginning of the decades-long Cold War (Holloway, 2002). The U.S.S.R.
had made it perfectly clear that they intended to take as much of Europe as they wanted (Holloway, 2002). The Communists also planned to take as much of Asia as
it could (Holloway, 2002). Their dream was to also take control of the United States. They had the military strength and nuclear power to succeed in a large part of
Western Europe (Holloway, 2002). Russians did not fight as much in the Korean Conflict as did their surrogate armies (Holloway, 2002). This author reports that the plan was to use
surrogate armies, e.g., the Chinese and Koreans, to do the actual fighting and to "posture their own Russian forces to threaten an escalation to general war" (Holloway, 2002). Korea
was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against the Chinese as well as
the North Koreans but the war could be conceived as being between the Soviets and the Americans. The war was fought entirely in Korea but 22 nations were involved in
it (Holloway, 2002). The outcome was not a clear victory, such as commanders were accustomed to but rather, it ended with the forces in North Korea disseminated and North Koreas
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