Korean War

The costs of a second Korean war, then, would be massive: another possible two million or more Korean casualties; fifty thousand or more dead Americans; and the potential mass military mobilization of the U.S. civilian population for another land war in Asia.…

British Korea War veteran remembers injured child

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has at last played the Russian card, meeting President Vladimir Putin for their first summit. But hes still holding it close to his chest. Yes, Kim appeared to have gotten along better with Putin in Vladivostok than he did wit…

To thwart possible disruption, pundits give legacy companies such advice as disrupt yourself before you get disrupted or put frontline employees in charge of strategy and execution. This counsel is of little help. Military history offers a much better way to …

Jim Newman recalls his mother's tears as she waved him off when he climbed aboard the navy ship Hawea, setting off to Korea. He was 17 years old, one of a group of 10 other seamen boys that age on the boat. One birthday later he had already had a brush…

Posted April 23, 2019 06:00:00 Kay Waldron was 11 in January 1951 when her family received word her older brother, Royal Australian Air Force pilot Geoff Stephens, was missing in action in the Korean War. The 23-year-old flew with the RAAF's famed No. 77 …

A 2.5-mile-wide strip of land is all that's keeping two heavily armed countries from facing off. Newslook Panmunjom, South Korea Patrick Gauchats workspace literally is a minefield a thin swath of isolated territory, crowded with tanks, artillery, and thou…

The 1st Marine Division was on the move toward the Yalu River. With any luck, if the weather cooperated, the United Nations police action in Korea would be over in weeks. The 5th Marine Regiment (5th Marines), most of the 7th Marines, and three artillery bat…

As the owner of the world’s largest collection of haggadot, the National Library of Israel is no stranger to unusual versions of the text that Jews read on Passover. Among the library’s 10,000-odd haggadot is the Prague Hagaddah from 1556, of which only two …

Many companies and business publish internal newsletters or magazines, and Americas intelligence services are no different. The CIA runs the pulpy fount of weirdness that is Studies in Intelligence while the NSA puts out the Cryptologic Quarterly. The agenci…