First Allied Airborne Army

Many people today look back on General MacArthur and the war in Korea and view him as a bad leader, a leader who did not follow the current Army Values. After his short campaign during the Korean War, General MacArthur gained a very negative reputation. He is now looked upon as a leader who did not lead by example. This paper explores that question. General MacArthur up to the start of the Korean War had already immortalized himself in American history. As a General, he was known as one of…

capable of tricking them. A stable and structured hierarchy is necessary in military intelligence if it is to sustain and achieve its desired objectives. Disregard in this instance not only has territorial consequences but lack of mobilization of the army costs copious amounts of lives; "Stalin's fatal misinterpretation and denial of the clear intelligence he was given was to cost the Soviet Union 20 million dead, 70,000 cities, towns and villages laid waste, and changed the map of the world…

THE U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR I On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson tended to Congress, requesting a revelation of war against Germany. A little more than two months prior, on January 31, the German government had reported its resumption of "unhindered submarine fighting." With the declaration, German U-pontoons would without cautioning endeavor to sink all boats going to or from British or French ports. Under the new procedure, U-vessels had sunk three American trader ships with a…

Between 1942 and 1945, thousands of Japanese Americans, regardless of United States citizenship status, received orders to evacuate their homes and businesses. Sparked by rising fear and anxiety of the American people after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a United States Naval base in Hawaii, the U.S. government relocated Japanese Americans to remote areas on the West Coast and in the south, isolating them in internment or relocation camps. With no actual evidence supporting the creation of…