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been discharged and were in the process of starting their new lives back into the military, who were equipped with outdated gear pulled out of storage.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
>>64705049By my calculation the North Korean dictatorship has transferred up to 40% of its 8500 artillery pieces to Russia amd approximately 3200 D30, D20 and D-74 guns, leaving the North Korean artilley force the weakest it had been in decades with about 300 koksan guns and 4800 other 122 and above towed and SPG pieces.If South Korea wants to beat Kim, now is the time, while Russia is down for the countAre they waiting for Taiwan to go hot?200 of its 500 koksan long range guns
The North Korean military has not been this weak in 50 years or moreKim fucked up big time, he went all in on Putin vastly more than anons realise and the bet did not play out,South Korea possesses a massive artillery force, estimated around 9,300 to over 12,000 pieces,North Korea has about 5100 guns now, South Korea has a 2 to 1 overmatch as well as air and naval superiority, vastly greater tecnological capacity, vastly wealthier and with a vastly larger, more educated and larger population.North Korea is over when they say it is. They know where kims nukes are and can hit them at will.
>>64705092>and ended inconclusively to bootThe side that wanted to remove the Fascist race traitor and re-unite the nation lost.
>>64705149It was the peak of pre-computer industrial technology combined with the first post-atomics politics. The ultimate prequel war to modernity. That's what makes it interesting to me, and probably why it isn't interesting to others.
>>64705474The opinion in the South is that they should just let the North rot and the North has been brainwashed harder than your median voter/FOX viewer from New York Oblast.
>>64705255>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.Many nations had troops there including the geeks and the turks who engaged in all out bayonet combat with NK infantryAmerica writes its allies savrifices out of histrory because it's ego is too big for truth, same deal with shit like saving private ryan when the majority of beech heads were British and Canadian yet the film operates in a parallel dimension occupied only by AmericansU671 is another film that insults hiastory showin Americans capturing an enigma machine when it was the British,Same with current day USA shitting on all the nations who lost men sent lage number of troops to support US misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan.Same in somalia with black hawk down, r 22,000 troops from 27 nationsIn korea 16 nations sent combat troops. What all of these conflicts have in common is American media wrote their allies and thir dead out of history America IS stolen valour
>>64705049It's extremely embarassing for the USAThey canceled comic books about the war for this sole reason
>>64705512>U571 is another film that insults hiastory showin Americans capturing an enigma machine when it was the British,
>>64705049All I know is Imjin River is hard core
