Picture: Korean War: Chinese crossing the Yalu River (link)The boys have put in their requisite time on the computer - that would be with all sorts of games usually having to do with armor and weapons, thrusts and slashes and chops and gunslinging. Lucas getting something to eat; Ian brushing his teeth (I think).
I've had time to do some more reading on the Korean War, my more advanced (?) fascination with armor and weapons, thrusts and slashes and gunslinging. Halberstam has just been talking about MacArthur's intelligence crew (G2) skewing the data to give him what he wanted: the Chinese will not enter the Korean War, and if they did, MacArthur believed, the air arm of the UN forces would destroy them as they crossed the Yalu River. Nobody told him that the Chinese already had 250000 to 300000 troops already in North Korea. The author likened it to later manipulations of intelligence that ended up in comparable military disasters: LBJ and the Tonkin Gulf and Vietnam; GWB and WMD and Iraq.
Sun is shining and climbing; temperatures, too. Good time for a walk on the wild side.
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