COMBAT READY? THE EIGHTH U.S. ARMY ON THE EVE OF THE KOREAN WAR

摘要

Conventional wisdom often describes the Army's soldiers and leaders during the opening stages of the Korean War as unready and unprepared. Thomas Hanson's Combat Ready? questions this paradigm. He contends it is "unfair to condemn the troops of the Eighth Army for the reverses of the summer of 1950," and his goal is to "redress the imbalance that exists between fact and interpretation." Hanson intends to renew the debate on the performance of the soldiers and leaders and shift it from assigning blame to understanding readiness. The book accomplishes the goal and all future works on Korea will have to account for Hanson's conclusions.