Consider the priorities of President Truman and General MacArthur in t

Consider the priorities of President Truman and General MacArthur in the Korean War. Define the strategy of each. Which is the sounder strategy in your mind? Why? Would you have fired MacArthur as President Truman did? Why?

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ANSWER
President Truman’s original objective in Korea was to contain North Korea–push its forces back out of South Korea, then reestablish the 38th parallel as the border between the two Koreas. He temporarily abandoned that objective in favor of General MacArthur’s “liberation” strategy to free North Korea from its Communist dictator and unify the two Korea’s under a democratic government. Truman abandoned the ‘liberation” strategy when the Chinese Communists entered the war, and fired MacArthur when the general publicly criticized his commander-in-chief’s readoption of the containment strategy.