Why did US perform so poorly in Korea?

Why did US perform so poorly in Korea?

Seems pretty fair to me and I am not even American.

the west fought with their hands tied behind their back due to politics

they all made budgets cuts to their military after ww2 as well

>the west fought with their hands tied behind their back due to politics

You obviously know fuck all about what you're talking about.

Ridgway wasn't there long enough

>Refusued the offer of half a million Republican Chinese troops
>Refused to bomb the bridges over the yalu to prevent communist chinese from entering the war freely
>Refused to deploy any more soldiers than the 8th army and marines had to work with by 1951
Get bent retard

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Bombing a country to fuckery, in a way that leaves Vietnam looking like a First World Country, doesn't spell "hands tied".

doing any of this would provoke a larger scale war in Korea with no guarantee of success,if the US had just listened to the Chinese and sit off somewhere just 150 miles outside of Pyongyang than the Chinese would have no valid casus to attack
Geopolitical concern is also a big issue and it is prevalent even in the Vietnam war with America intentionally limiting its presence in Asia since they wanted to focus on Europe
War isn't a beneficiary thing to the
economy,especially since the Americans put so much into it which would've stagnated the magnificent growth of her economy post WW2

It does when the North Korean army ceased to be anything resembling a fighting force following Inchon. The drive to the Yalu was easy as war can be, The war became about China, and the US refused to openly engage China- thus hands tied

Also China hardly outnumbers the UN during the war and could only maintain a maximum 800 thousand men on the field
she also barely has any motor vehicles,basically no armored unit,has only artillery in the form of mortars and field guns and depended alot of air support to Stalin

muh hyppy stabbed us in da beck

The topography of Korea meant armor was next to useless in most situations. Chinas Strategy relied on quick overwhemling force supported by infantry carried mortars. Any prolonged battles let the US bring artillery and air power to bear and resulted in heavy chinese casualties. The amount of mountains and winding roads through hills favored China in most enagments

>The amount of mountains and winding roads through hills favored China in most enagments
Those didn't favor China as much as lessen the immense advantages the UN forces had.

so China was in luck as they fought a technologically superior enemy where their force multipliers are limited and their slight edge in numbers and easier logistic structure (which eventually strained) comes to play

At the start it was because the US was nearly demobilized. They had no tanks or heavy weapins in Korea. The only troops available for rapid deployment were half trained. Morale among veteran troops was bad because nobody wanted to be uprooted and go back to war after just getting out.

When the Chinese invaded, it was MacArthur's fault for being a fucking moron and missing all the signs while tying Walker's hands behind his back.

Yeah the US tech edge became less fucking overwhelming and they got exposed hard.

> Garrison force manages to fight a retreat against entire North Korean army
> Pushes them all the way back to Chinese border
> Manages to fight a second retreat against the massive tusnami level surge of the Chinese joining the fight
> Retakes all lost territory and stabilizes the front


Sure they weren't able to force North Korea into a surrender but it's pretty damn impressive that entire armies weren't annihilated. Plus I bet the main objective was always to stop this from turning into WW3

Due mostly to the terrain they were fighting in China was still able to close the gap between them and UN forces quickly. There was a first hand account from a New Zealander that described having to fight off Chinese in the same trench he was in

they didn't, they performed very well and managed to push the norks until they were within spitting distance of china until the chicoms came down en masse and pushed u.n forces to the border.

>literally lose to chicoms
>even the japs didn't lose so hard
>they performed very well ;^)

> Japs take the Chinese coast at a time when China is divided between different governments and fucking warlords.
> U.S. fights a united and fully supplied China in a relatively small area full of mountains and hills negating their armor advantage and limiting their air advantage
> Thinking these two events are equivalent in any way

lmao what? are you in an alternative reality where the south is communist?

China isn't united still to this day.

What if you are the one in an alternative reality where the South is capitalist?

i'm sure the unification was real in your mind.

Does Taiwan really matter that much to you? All of mainland China is united and while there are political disagreements they are much more united than they were in 1937

t.retard