Defining Victory Of The Modern Age Of Warfare

The ways in which the United States has conducted its military operations since becoming an independent nation has largely depended upon the overall political and military objectives of each individual conflict. The United States first three hot wars after the end of World War II display the marked difference in US objectives and the operations used to achieve them better than any other modern wars in which American troops participated.

In this way, the Truman administration attempted to justify its hostility toward all communist states; the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War stems directly from the paranoia of communism that caused Truman to implement this policy. It is clear that the American government under the duress of the slow expansion of communism felt that using force to prevent the spread of an opposing economic and political structure was perfectly justifiable. However, this policy likely led to more disastrous military conflict, such as the Vietnam War, was based primarily on fears of a conflicting ideology, and had little evidence to back up the fears that may otherwise have been rational. The Western policies of containment exacerbated the issue of communism and its spread through Asia, perhaps even enabling it through worsening foreign relations with countries that otherwise posed no threat.

Background: Ever since the presidency of Harry Truman, we have been constantly involved in foreign conflicts due to fear of the spread of communism. As a consequence of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Korea was divided into two governments. During Mr. Truman’s presidency, the spread of communism was increasing in tension due to the North Korean invasion of South Korea. The United States believed that it was not in its best interests to let Korea fall to communist power. As a result, the U.S. joined the war in efforts to stop the downfall of South Korea. The north koreans received aid from communist China and the war went on until the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. This agreement set up a demilitarized zone

portrayed containment in the Korean War by having the United Nations step in during the attack, having a counterattack, and then keeping Korea two countries. The U.S. and U.N. stepped in and helped South Korea when North Korea started to attack them. Stalin told North Korea to attack South Korea because he wanted to have control of the whole country and spread communism. The United States and the United Nations interfered because they did not want the Soviets to take over South Korea. The North Koreans were pushing the South Koreans almost of the Korean peninsula even with the United States helping to defend. Soon, MacArthur, the U.S. General came up with a counterattack pushing the North Koreans all the way to the Yaul River. They were stopping the spreading of communism until China stepped in. As China stepped in, they fought all the way back to the 38th Parallel. Finally, after several years the war ended. South Korea gained a little more land over the 38th Parallel, but both countries were kept separate. The United States, in this case, stopped the spreading of communism (Doc

The Korean War was part of the U.S. system of containment. The Korean War began in 1950 and ended around 1953, it was a case of the US Cold war approach of control. The policy of containment was a foreign policy plan of preventing other countries from becoming Communist-controlled. In other words, it was a policy for containing the spread of Communism. America had one noteworthy objective all through the Cold War which was to stop the spread of socialism. A noteworthy outside strategy that the US advanced all through the twentieth century named it Containment. The Containment Policy expressed that the US would bolster any country that is mistreated by socialism and would not be able to shield themselves from it. This turned into America's real motivation to intercede in the Korean War.

This period represented the model of what war “ought to look like.” According to Tierney, following 1945, the United States stopped winning major wars. For him, the United States did not win in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. However, the term win is somewhat elusive. In Korea, the outcome was inconclusive as the goal of liberating North Korea was not met. Yet, the United States did successfully defend South Korea from totalitarianism. Perhaps this should open the debate as to how winning is defined. The current war in Afghanistan suffers the same criticism in that, even after a decade of war, the terms of conflict were not accurately defined. Tierney’s view of winning is rather narrow. The challenge is to provide a more realistic assessment of victory which does not simply consider the defeat of the adversary, but examines the attainment of

In fact, remarkable similarities exist between the Korean War and the Vietnam War; from the US support of a dictatorial and corrupt anti-communist regime to its conception of communism as a monolithic entity, under which all communist nations were necessarily allies, rather than individuals to be dealt with separately. However, though those parallels, Vietnam era policy-makers did not apply the lessons of the Korean War to the Vietnam War. Rather, they did not seem to recognize those lessons as lessons at all, and repeated in

During the period of both wars, the U.S. committed to preventing further growth of communism. During the Korean War, the South gained backing and assistance of the U.S., reasoning that the government of North Korea were wanting to pursue the expansion of their communism towards the south of Korea. With the increasing growth of American troops, air and naval forces, and strategic combat, the intervention of the U.S. slowed the North Koreans from advancing south. American involvement in Vietnam was an implementation of the Containment Policy, which was a the obligation of U.S. foreign approach makers to terminate the expansion of communism (Vietnam War). With the participation of the U.S., the South was provided financial assistance and military hardware. This permitted North Vietnamese troops to retain their militia in the south.

In the article, Why has America Stopped Winning Wars? the author, Dominic Tierney, asserts that the United States has entered an age of “unwinnable conflict”. Tierney argues that since the end of World War II excessive military power, an international shift from state-on-state war to internal conflict, the emergence of non-state actors and peace between states have contributed to The United States’ inability to win major conflicts. Tierney uses mistakes in strategy and tactical failures to support his argument.

The Korean War was a military victory for the United States because it pushed the North Koreans out of South Korea and preserved

During the 1950s through the present time, great debate has divided American society regarding the Vietnam War. The research paper examines whether or not the United States had achieved its foreign policy goal in regard to Vietnam. In order for one to understand why the Tet Offensive had a profound impact on United States’ doctrine, this particular key event must be put in the context of American policy and the ensuing conflict in Vietnam up to 1968. The paper will provide an overview of the Cold War policy of containment, the reasoning for America involving itself in Vietnam, and the impact of the Tet Offensive on both the United States and the Johnson administration.

The U.S. response to the devastation of Western Europe can be considered a part of the U.S. policy of containment. The Korean War took place in 1950 – 1953 and was an example of the US cold war policy of containment its basic effort was to minimize the spread and continuation of communism. The Korean War show how far the U.S. would have gone to prevent communism from growing larger. The U.S. got further involved in Korea when china became communist in 1949 when just before the U.S. spent just over 2 million dollars to just prevent this from occurring.

The United States have been in many wars over 100 years. It has changed our country in many different ways. The United States have been successful in all the wars we have been in. I’m gone talk about my favorite wars.

According to Robert, without Korean War there would be a huge difference in the world’s history. In addition to that Robert also stated “the Korean war shaped the course of the cold war by both resolving the incoherence which characterized U.S. foreign and defense efforts in the period 1946-1950 and establishing important new lines of policy”(1980). The Korean War led to the changes of policy through three processes in changes on the domestic political situation, defense budget and NATO. The domestic policy changes let the leader of the country to do whatever they wanted to do before (Robert,

In Failing to Win, authors Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney analyze perceptions of victory and defeat within the realm of international politics. These perceptions are examined through “psychological, political, and cultural factors” (Johnson and Tierney, pg. 1). The book is divided into three main sections. The first section focuses on two frameworks that shape perceptions of victory and defeat, which Johnson and Tierney call score-keeping and match-fixing. The second section delves into the conditions that may make people either score-keep or match-fix. Finally, the third section uses case studies to further the argument that psychological factors impact perceptions of victory and defeat. These case studies include: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Tet Offensive, the Yom Kippur War, the United States intervention in Somalia, and the American war on terror.