EARLY EPISODE: Task Force Smith
Added 2024-04-08 06:57:52 +0000 UTCIn the opening stages of the Korean War the US sent a badly underarmed, undermanned Task Force to blunt the advance of the entire North Korean military. It did not go great.
Sources:
https://www.historynet.com/rush-disaster-task-force-smith/
https://www.thenmusa.org/task-force-smith-and-the-problem-with-readiness/
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA381834.pdf
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.moore.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2022/Spring/PDF/LessonsFromThePast.pdf
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/task-force-smith-americas-entry.html
https://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/Korea/ExecutiveLeaderFailures
Comments
As an LLBD field trip, may I recommend that Tom brings Joe and Nate to a game of hurling as a potential Western European substitute for ice hockey?
Pol R
2024-04-22 16:11:19 +0000 UTC3:09 that's Michelangelo's creation of man on the Sistine chapel's ceiling.
Oscar
2024-04-16 12:47:35 +0000 UTCCant wait to hear about the story of how the 65th infantry, a Puerto Rican regiment, got the record for the biggest mass court martial during the Korean War. (it was mostly racism)
Gustavo Rivera
2024-04-11 23:30:46 +0000 UTCThe first time, I couldn't listen to a episode in one go, because it is too depressing.
Andreas Lermen
2024-04-11 13:21:39 +0000 UTC
