Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction, Donald W. Boose, Jr. and James I. Matray. Part I Political Background and Participants: Prelude to conflict, 1910-1948, Boram Yi; South Korea, Jinwung Kim; North Korea, Hakjoon Kim; The United States, Steven Casey; The People’s Republic of China, Yafeng Xia; Britain and the Commonwealth, Robert Barnes; The Soviet Union, Kathryn Weathersby; The United Nations, William A. Taylor. Part II Tactics, Equipment, and Logistics: The ground wars, 1948-1953, Allan R. Millett; Airpower, Kenneth P. Werrell; Naval operations, Edward J. Marolda; Logistics, Charles R. Schrader; Atomic, chemical, and biological weapons, Conrad C. Crane; Amphibious warfare, Donald W. Boose, Jr.; Intelligence, Peter G. Knight; Special operations, David Gray; American ground forces, William M. Donnelly; Republic of Korea Army, Il-Song Park; Korean People’s Army, Robert M. Collins; Chinese People’s Volunteers Force, Bin Yu; United Nations command and Korean augmentation, Jiyul Kim; British and Commonwealth forces, Jeffrey Grey. Part III Course of the War: Koreans invade Korea, James I. Matray; To the Pusan perimeter, Janet G. Valentine; The Inch’ŏn landing, Michael Pearlman; North to the Yalu, Paul M. Edwards; Chinese intervention, Michael Sheng; Period of mobile warfare, S.P. MacKenzie; Military stalemate, Xiaobing Li; Kaesŏng and P’anmunjŏm, William C. Latham, Jr.. Postscript: Operations Glory and Big Switch, Charles S. Young; Aftermath, 1953-2013, Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.. Appendix: order of battle; Index.