摘要：Just fi ve years after the U.S. Armyhelped defeat the Axis powers inboth the European and P ac ific the-aters, it was nearly pushed off the Ko-rean P eninsula by a peasant army ofNorth Koreans. No one anticipatedthis reversal of readiness, but it hap-pened nonetheless. In The Korean War,Max Hastings writes, "[This reversal]was a direct consequence of [DefenseSec retary Lou is] Johnson's p olici es,approved by [President Harry S] Tru-man that by Ju ne 1950 ¡ di visionslacked 62 percent of their infantry fire-power and 14 percent of their tanks ¡and ¡ the Army in Jap an possessedonly forty-five days' supply of ammu-nition." Many also believed that thehigh-tech weap ons of the time (airpower and atomic weap ons) wouldoffset the need for ground forces.
