Essay Question #2: Argue a case either for or against General Douglas MacArthur and his controversial opposition to President Harry S. Truman during the Korean War. Be sure to identify the important leadership issues as they relate to the individuals, security of the country, welfare of the military, and defense of the South Korean people.
General Douglas MacArthur was a very smart stratician in the United States Army and very ambitious on getting what he wanted. As a person he was very arrogant and people on his staff knew what they working with. If he did not get what he wanted, he would try to destroy you before you realized it. “Later historians, such as Robert Smith, contend that, "[c]rudely, deliberately, with complete understanding of what would ensue, MacArthur undertook to sabotage Truman’s effort, in March 1951, to open peace negotiations with the Chinese (and that) no one not blinded by hero worship could overlook the arrogance and contempt with which MacArthur deliberately flouted Truman’s directive." President S. Truman on the other hand was a people’s person. Before he made any decision he listen to both sides of every story and always worried about the outcome if the plan went wrong. “Truman’s mistake, according to Rovere and …show more content…
The United States just suffered the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and we were still trying to recovery from the seek attack from Japan. Many military analyst still thought that a plan like this might happen again to the United States. Even though the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union just released their atomic bomb in 1949, just months before U.S. involvement with the North Koreans across the 38th Parallel. At one point we thought we were the first to do anything but in reality, there is someone always trying to do something bigger and better then
General Douglas MacArthur was a very smart stratician in the United States Army and very ambitious on getting what he wanted. As a person he was very arrogant and people on his staff knew what they working with. If he did not get what he wanted, he would try to destroy you before you realized it. “Later historians, such as Robert Smith, contend that, "[c]rudely, deliberately, with complete understanding of what would ensue, MacArthur undertook to sabotage Truman’s effort, in March 1951, to open peace negotiations with the Chinese (and that) no one not blinded by hero worship could overlook the arrogance and contempt with which MacArthur deliberately flouted Truman’s directive." President S. Truman on the other hand was a people’s person. Before he made any decision he listen to both sides of every story and always worried about the outcome if the plan went wrong. “Truman’s mistake, according to Rovere and …show more content…
The United States just suffered the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and we were still trying to recovery from the seek attack from Japan. Many military analyst still thought that a plan like this might happen again to the United States. Even though the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union just released their atomic bomb in 1949, just months before U.S. involvement with the North Koreans across the 38th Parallel. At one point we thought we were the first to do anything but in reality, there is someone always trying to do something bigger and better then