Patrick Sheehan

“American newspapers never again devoted much attention to the exploits or condition of the ROK Army. Consequently, few Americans have understood the ROK contribution to the Korean War, and most have tended to deprecate it.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

“In addition to restraint of objective, the second necessary ingredient of limited war is a professional army large enough to handle any task.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

“Suppose a surgeon and an anesthesiologist could not communicate with each other except through a hospital administrator about a patient on an operating table, he said. “Instead of [an] exchange of information [among] people who are attempting to accomplish a result . . . , we have made it virtually impossible.” Olson went on, “In order to connect the dots someone has got to have knowledge of those various different dots.”
― John Yoo, War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror

“From the first, the peasantry saw little to lose through Communist rule, and perhaps much to gain. Only much later, when the land is collectivized and the iron hand shows through the paternal glove, and when it is too late, does the peasant who has been Communized realize his loss. Communized, he ceases to be an individual man, losing an identity that even the most abject poverty could not take from his before.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War