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A new strategy for Korea?

A few months after the Korean Armistice Agreement (27 July 1953), which put an end to the Korean War and established the actual border at the 38th parallel, the Philippines Armed Forces Journal reprinted an article from Military Review by Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, an important journalist appointed chief combat historian of the U.S. Army during WWII and the Korean War. The strongly anti-communist article took up against Communist China, seen as the primary and real enemy (at least in the Korean War), not the Soviet Union. For Marshall, the Chinese knew what was at stake and had a clear strategy, having constantly outmatched the US-lead coalition: the Chinese knew their objective was not the prevention of killing, but victory, and Marshall believed the US had conformed with a stalemate, without ever committing enough resources. Marshall advocated for “a new era of firmness” and enough budget to prepare for the next communist aggression in Asia. The reprint also included several pictures of the Filipino troops, fighting, praying, and enjoying the visit of Filipino stars such as Pablo Virtuoso, Cora Madrid, or Rumelia Flores. Thank to that we can imagine how their life was during the armistice negotiations

Fecha

November 1953

Fuente

“A new strategy for Korea”, Philippines Armed Forces Journal, Vol. 6, Nº 6, November 1953,
pp. 5-11

Relación

Burdett, Thomas F. “Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood,” Handbook of Texas Online,
accessed October 24, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/marshall-
samuel-lyman-atwood.
Deocampo, Nick. 2017. Film: American Influences on Philippine Cinema. Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Jordan, Kelly C (2002). "Right for the Wrong Reasons: S. L. A. Marshall and the Ratio of Fire in
Korea". Military History. 66 (1): 135–162. doi:10.2307/2677347. JSTOR 2677347.
Woods, Colleen. 2020. Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in
the Age of Decolonization. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/74494.

Materia

Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Philippines Armed Forces Journal
Korean War and
the Philippines