Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain … - T. R. Fehrenbach

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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.