| Show ef ECONOMIC j highlights on our side bide the war var in korea 03 become a new k rind ind of conil conflict I 1 I 1 t ae classic goal of warfare 1 Is to capture Eap ture or destroy important ground cities terminals industrial districts supply cupply dumps aid d so reduce the enemy power to to fight in the initial stewe stages of th the korean war wak when the UN forces were opposed by the north korean forces caily this thi ws oal br li r to a great extent but it Is no longi long er we are fighting the chinese but no one seriously envisions driving cross across the manchurian border la in an attempt to capture chinese land and our planes are not permitted to fight or bomb over orver chinese territory our plan was clearly and succinctly bated by general ridgway the able UN ground commander in korea itis if is not to capture real estate most of which cis of small value now it is ie instead 7 to kill as many chinese soldiers s as possible with minimum punishment to ourselves if we can hit and hold our ground well and good if that becomes too costly the policy is to move out conserving our human resources and to hit again another day and in another place the we will stand here to the last man idea is out our own casualties in korea have been very heavy they have passed the mark tho the great majority among the ground forces in the early days of the war the only troops available were occupation cu forces from japan many with little or no experience in combat they took terrific losses it was also necessary to commit units peace meal in pitifully small detachments and this too swelled the grim toll of killed injured and missing in action many of the replacements and reinforcements from the united states were half trained peacetime peace time soldiers and they also lost heavily As the casualty list shows korea is a far cry from a police action to those involved in it it is a major war but our lossev have diminished to a remarkable degree in lato months due to the ridgway strategy to the hard won battle experience of the troops and to the great flood of improved equipment we have sent to korea and the chinese casualties are incredibly high in its issue of march 2nd and TY S news and world said that chinas cainas best armies totaling men were moved to manchuria for use in korea and that about half that force has been committed of the last one out of three has become a casualty for a total of that means the magazine pointed out that if the present casualty rate continues china will have lost two out of three men totaling of those she committed to korea and the best observers believe that no nation no matter how vast her reserves or manpower can go on indefinitely losing trained men at that terrific rate moreover american ground air and sea forces seem to have been remarkably successful in preventing the movement of adequate supplies to the chinese army in korea gasoline transport heavy munitions and weapons everything is short we on the other hand have built up tip our firepower to an overwhelming degree we are staying staving on in korea then because we can inflict enormous losses on the enemy while taking relatively small losses ourselves some top military men believe that the Chinese who are said to be disappointed by the small amount of aid given them by russia Bussi awill will eventually pull out of korea and let the war die if that happens it will be the first real defeat world communism has had bad to take |
