T. R. Fehrenbach

"To continue to utilize the forces of our Air and Navy without an effective ground element cannot be decisive."

"Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men into the mud."

"America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone."

"The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary."

"War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity."

"Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the United States alone, that held the far frontier. No one else had the will or the power."

"If war is to have any meaning at all, its purpose must be to establish control over peoples and territories, and ultimately, this can be done only as Alexander the Great did it, on the ground."

"There had been many brave men in the ranks, but they were learning that bravery of itself has little to do with success in battle."

"It is the nature of peoples to see the ancient foes, and to ignore those newly arising."

"Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence - no American likes being pushed around - with a complete unwillingness to prepare for combat, the Korean War was difficult, perhaps the most difficult in their history."

"Revolution and terror are synonymous; only with the passage of time does any revolution become respectable."

"For the first time in recent history, American ground units had been committed during the initial days of a war; there had been no allies to hold the line while America prepared. For the first time, many Americans could understand what had happened to Britain at Dunkirk."