Second Korean War: 1968 or so...

MacCaulay

Banned
So...I've known about this stuff for awhile, but I thought I'd throw this out there as a possible bunch of dominoes that could've fallen into a Second Korean War.
The whole "hostile fire zone" thing kind of makes me wonder just how serious the US military was. If that's anything like free fire zones, then they were ready to drop the hammer in that one area of the DMZ.

In any case, I just thought I'd throw this stuff out there.


During this period, KPA conducted large scale infiltration activities which resulted in a series of firefights and artillery duels across the length of the DMZ. The intensity of the hostilities were such that on April 1, 1968, the Department of Defense on the recommendation of General Charles H. Bonesteel III declared the DMZ-Imjin area as a hostile fire zone. The activities extended to infiltration along the coast of the Korean peninsula such as the Ulchin-Samchok landings.

Second Korean War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scenes from an Unfinished War: Low-Intensity Conflict in Korea, 1966-1968 (this is written by a US Army Major about what happened along the DMZ)
 

wormyguy

Banned
I think this is a very interesting scenario politically as well as militarily - with the increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, is the American public going to have the stomach for another war in Asia? (or, alternatively, would the Communist aggression cause a reaction to make Vietnam more popular?)
 
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