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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: BEYOND TASK FORCE SMITH: 'NATIONAL' UNPREPAREDNESS FOR WAR IN KOREA
Description: In the States, we hadn't had tanks coming off the assembly line in months
In 1992, as calls for the post-Cold War peace dividend grew louder, then-Chief of Staff of the Army General Gordon Sullivan wrote a provocative essay in ARMY Magazine as a clarion call for the nation to sustain vigilance and military preparedness for war. "NO MORE Task Force Smiths" presented the story of U.S. unpreparedness going into the Korean War. A badly understrength and underequipped constabulary force in Japan found itself very quickly inserted into action after North Korea's invasion of the south and performed poorly. Sullivan's...