The Korean War : Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, xi/381pp. Light shelf wear, previous owner's name top right of front fep; a very good copy. Traces U.S. involvement in the Korean War, analyses American foreign policy of the period, and compares the war to the war in Vietnam. The sub-title indicates the three major areas of investigation: the atmosphere of crisis pervading Washington in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with the Red Scare and fear of communist expansion mobilising political and public sentiment in favour of military intervention in Korea; in an effort to maintain credibility the Truman administration committed the USA to a conflict in a little-known country for almost three years; the problems of command in the first major conflict since the War of 1812 in which the USA had to accept less than total victory.