Why is there so little media about this conflict? Americans fighting actual reds with WW2 tech is badass even if it wasn’t a total victory but I guess frostbite and getting swarmed by human waves doesn’t make for good recruitment propaganda.
WW2 outshines it.
>>64705049What's got the bugmen so riled up lately? Someone give me a QRD.
>>64705049Because it's mostly just WW2+ and ended inconclusively to boot
>>64705049It was sold as a police action that was starting to turn into a WW1 Western Front style attrition slog with much harsher weather. It was also a war where it ended as a ceasefire rather than formally with no clear winner.
>>64705092>>64705149This. It was supposed to be a United Nations police action to uphold election results, and ended up as WW2.5.
>why isn't there a ton of media about a modern Chinese vs. US conflictPonder that
>>64705049It came up before the comunists came up with their anti war media campaign strategy, so what the public knew about it was tightly controlled by the us government. It's also a campaign that mostly went well for the US, and ended before it could get truly nasty thanks to stalin dying and einsenhower's efforts - and unlike the iraq war, it wasn't started under false pretexts or achieved nothing of worth.
Once the first winter was over and the battles became a standoff, it was no fun even to read the records.
>>64705231The public HATED the Korean War. It was probably worse than Vietnam as far as how negative mainstream discussion of the war was. The Truman administration explicitly framed the conflict as a police action and not a war, and kept their best and most well trained units in Europe to protect against the Soviets, so they had to recall WW2 vets that had already been discharged and were in the process of starting their new lives back into the military, who were equipped with outdated gear pulled out of storage. People couldnt understand why casualty rates were so high for a police action, and why it was taking so long to fight for a location that nobody had ever heard of before. Then the Little Switch happened and POWs returned home with stories of communist brutality which even further weakened support for the war and emboldened domestic communists to become emboldened in spreading their message.Korea was a very contentious war which almost no one completely supported
because entire divisions were wiped out>inb4 retard who doesn't understand what wiped out in the military context meansDuring the Korean War, AD Skyraiders were flown by only the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, and were normally painted in dark navy blue. It was called the "Blue Plane" by enemy troops
My dad’s cousin was a Marine posted in the Philippines when NK invaded. They were ordered to fly to Korea as reinforcements. He told me they sat on the tarmac for 12 hours before taking off the front was collapsing so quickly they were losing airstrips to fly them to. Finally, they were flown to Japan and shipped to Pusan.
The UK had over 50,000 troops in Korea. It served to solidify the concept of the special relationship, which bolstered stability throughout the GWOT. Only recently has Trump sabotaged this special relationship by failure to police the information space and deliberate embrace of kremlin incitement.
>>64705255the special relationship has always been gay. Mutt call Israel their greatest ally and have for a long time when it should really be Australia.
Also, the high command fell prey to magical thinking ("no, the Chinese definitely won't attack, because they just won't, okay?") and infighting. Had they properly reinforced against a Chinese advance, it's likely North Korea would've eventually been taken over by UN forces.
>>64705258>if only the tsar knew Nice narrative
