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The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953

The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rosemary FootSeries:Cornell Studies in Security AffairsPublish date:2023-09-15Pages:300
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501772061ISBN-10:1501772066UPC:9781501772061Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Security (National & International), Wars & Conflicts, International RelationsBook Topic:Korean War, DiplomacySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCEXSVXSYV

In 1951, General Omar Bradley declared publicly that war with China would involve the United States "in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." Despite the stated intent of the U.S. to keep the Korean conflict from spreading, the debate on extending the war was far more intense and protracted than previous accounts of this period have suggested.

Concentrating on the debate over expansion, Rosemary Foot reveals the strains it caused both within the U.S. bureaucracy and between America and its North Atlantic allies. She supplies important new information on the U.S. government's appraisal of Sino-Soviet relations between 1950 and 1953, and makes clear that a high proportion of U.S. officials came to recognize the limited nature of Soviet support for China. Explaining why the Eisenhower administration nearly unleashed nuclear weapons on China in the spring of 1953, Foot demonstrates that the Korean war would very likely have grown into a conflict of major proportions if the Chinese and North Koreans had not conceded the final issue of the truce talks--the question of the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501772061ISBN-10:1501772066UPC:9781501772061Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Security (National & International), Wars & Conflicts, International RelationsBook Topic:Korean War, DiplomacySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCEXSVXSYV

Rosemary Foot is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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