He did not mention Korea. Two weeks later, the North Koreans swarmed across the 38th parallel. If much changed in those five years after World War II, much has remained eerily similar in Korea for almost 50 years since that war's armistice. North and South still face off across the most world's most heavily fortified border. The US military maintains a presence there to avoid another strategic miscommunication.
International tensions are still high and peace talks still lead nowhere.
In his study about how the Army should prepare in 2000, Joseph G.D. Babb revisits Task Force Smith in 1950 . Kelly C. Jordan explains how lessons from that war affect the Army today. At echelons above the hilltop warriors, policy makers pondered the use of nuclear weapons in Korea, as Stanley Weintraub chronicles. Greg A. Pickell warns us that instead of preparing for the last war, we should be ready for a re-eruption of the one a half a century ago. No one knows whether war in that theater will come, and taking a different tack, Robert L. Bateman III traces lessons about cohesion from Korea in 1950 to Vietnam in 1965 to who knows where next.