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By Sam C Holliday Forgotten Ideological Conflicts in Korea Vietnam Iraq and Afghanistan 1st First Edition [Paperback] Sam C Holliday 9781610055079 Books

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"Forgotten" vividly preserves the reality of what took place in Korea and Vietnam and then states the lessons that should have been learned. It takes you on a trip into the intensity of life close to death, with glimpses of the sublime, strange, and selfless that those who were there can never forget. Those who have never been in combat do not understand it, so "Forgotten" seeks to change this. Through reconstructing and retracing the path of the 29th and 35th Infantry Regiments, "Forgotten" illustrates why combat camaraderie is the key to success in battle, recognizes the nobility and heroism of those fighters who protect all that we have and cherish, and explains some of the lessons that should have been learned, but were forgotten. The courage, skill, fear, and luck displayed in both the defeats and successes of combat are often ignored or distorted as the media reacts to massive firepower, political arguments, inhumanity, and myths. "Forgotten" is a step on the path of correction.

By Sam C Holliday Forgotten Ideological Conflicts in Korea Vietnam Iraq and Afghanistan 1st First Edition [Paperback] Sam C Holliday 9781610055079 Books

Colonel Holliday's personal recollection of his experience in one of the first units sent to Korea in 1950 is a valuable reminder of the costs of unpreparedness. He describes the harsh realities of men facing death against a fierce enemy in graphic detail. He pauses to develop the context of military operations across the Korean peninsula, but returns to the decisions he faced and the men who courageously fought by his side. Also within this view of battle, he also provides his personal reflections on how the human heart rises to such dangers, how Soldiers may be prepared for it, and the emotional currents that combat unleashes.

Interspersed in this narrative, he provides reflections on the lessons observed in battle, and seeks to relate them to a broader appreciation of the nature of struggle Western Civilization faced then and faces today. To this end, he adapts doctrinal terminology (Peace, Warfare, War) that seems somewhat unconventional and may confuse the discussion for those who do not adopt his definitions. His key insights concern the spectrum of conflict that ranges from War (military operations directed against the military and industrial capacity of another state) to Peace (no conflict and no use of force to achieve diplomatic and political ends). We spend the vast majority of our time between the poles engaged in the never-never land he calls Warfare (Not War/Not Peace). We face enemies and threats that seek to subvert and destroy our principles, values, culture, Constitutional order, freedoms, and - most critically - our capacity to understand threats and our will to counter them.

"Forgotten" is a terrific battle memoir by a military intellectual who culminated his service as the Director of Stability Studies at the Army War College. It personally answers the question, "Daddy, what did you do in the war?" And, it offers some very thought-provoking insights into what it all meant then, and what it might mean for us today. Heartily recommended!

Product details Paperback 575 pages Publisher BookLogix; 1st edition (2014) Language English ISBN-10 1610055071 ISBN-13 978-1610055079 ASIN B00SCUS7ZU

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By Sam C Holliday Forgotten Ideological Conflicts in Korea Vietnam Iraq and Afghanistan 1st First Edition [Paperback] Sam C Holliday 9781610055079 Books Reviews

Unlike Alfred Lord Tennyson’s summation of the 1854 charge of the light brigade, Sam Holliday’s Forgotten insists that it is ours to reason why.
This highly-decorated veteran of Korea and Vietnam blends gripping first-person, frontline combat narrative with a soldier/scholar’s deeply reflective analysis of the true nature of war and the enemy’s motives. He gives step-by-step suggestions for the essential bases on which American foreign policy should rest. To paraphrase a recent Wall Street Journal columnist, Holliday suggests it may be OK for the U.S. to be the world’s cop, but not its priest.
Explaining why the Vietnam and Korea conflicts ended as they did, Holliday insists that we grasp that they were, in essence, struggles between collectivism and individuality, not just the collision of opposing armies. He contends that a similar, if not exact, clash of ideolologies is at work in the Middle East with the emergence of a Third Jihad. Merely bombing Islamic radical fundamentalists will not suppress these ideologues. Their hatred of “The Great Satan” runs deep. Nor will throwing money at them. The West’s thirst for quick victory by overwhelming firepower will not be slaked in that region.
Quick victory by head on assault is seldom the Eastern way of war. Holliday notes that, early in the Korean War, the enemy preferred to infiltrate UN forces and then establish roadblocks to slaughter the withdrawing friendlies. He took advantage of peace-dulled GIs who forgot to establish mutually-supporting gunfire and too often offered unprotected flanks. He instilled fear in our troops by slipping past them in the night or bayoneting them in their sleeping bags.
In Vietnam, the enemy struck at weak points and withdrew into the jungle when counter-attacked. With the exception of the Tet Offensive, he was patient and willing to sacrifice 10 soldiers for every American killed.
Consistent with its prevailing ideology—including respect for the rule of law--the UN went to great lengths in Korea to observe the Geneva Convention—especially in the treatment of POWs and non-combatant civilians. By contrast, the enemy inflicted terror by large scale murder of merchants and landholders who opposed communism. The invaders tortured and maimed prisoners. Despite that, the enormous crowds of civilian refugees which clogged roads ahead of advancing North Korean troops testified that not everyone below the 38th Parallel accepted the collectivist ideology.
Another factor which worked against us in the Korean War was our lack of understanding of Red China’s historical strategic objectives. UN Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur convinced U.S. President Harry S. Truman and the Pentagon that he “understood the Oriental mind”. This fallacy was exposed terribly when Red China sent hundreds of thousands of virtually undetected troops into the war to protect its age-old desire for a buffer between North Korea and Manchuria. Communist China had signaled that a buffer overseen by South Korean troops only would be acceptable. Neither MacArthur nor anyone else in Washington picked up on this. Holliday makes the point that we must understand the strategic interests of the present-day Islamic State to counter it effectively.
Looking ahead, Holliday concludes that U.S. foreign policy should be based solely on our nation’s strategic interests, not changing the mindsets of foreigners, replacing their forms of government, or challenging their religions. These include freedom of air, land, and sea navigation, access to strategic raw materials--such as oil, titanium, and rare earth-- and securing such access for our major trading partners. These, he argues, should be the deciding factors in any debate involving military intervention. We cannot, Holliday concludes, win another people’s revolution for them.
John Ottley, Jr,
Alpharetta, GA
Gripping descriptions of combat in the Korean War interspersed with ruminations on what it all means.
Colonel Holliday's personal recollection of his experience in one of the first units sent to Korea in 1950 is a valuable reminder of the costs of unpreparedness. He describes the harsh realities of men facing death against a fierce enemy in graphic detail. He pauses to develop the context of military operations across the Korean peninsula, but returns to the decisions he faced and the men who courageously fought by his side. Also within this view of battle, he also provides his personal reflections on how the human heart rises to such dangers, how Soldiers may be prepared for it, and the emotional currents that combat unleashes.

Interspersed in this narrative, he provides reflections on the lessons observed in battle, and seeks to relate them to a broader appreciation of the nature of struggle Western Civilization faced then and faces today. To this end, he adapts doctrinal terminology (Peace, Warfare, War) that seems somewhat unconventional and may confuse the discussion for those who do not adopt his definitions. His key insights concern the spectrum of conflict that ranges from War (military operations directed against the military and industrial capacity of another state) to Peace (no conflict and no use of force to achieve diplomatic and political ends). We spend the vast majority of our time between the poles engaged in the never-never land he calls Warfare (Not War/Not Peace). We face enemies and threats that seek to subvert and destroy our principles, values, culture, Constitutional order, freedoms, and - most critically - our capacity to understand threats and our will to counter them.

"Forgotten" is a terrific battle memoir by a military intellectual who culminated his service as the Director of Stability Studies at the Army War College. It personally answers the question, "Daddy, what did you do in the war?" And, it offers some very thought-provoking insights into what it all meant then, and what it might mean for us today. Heartily recommended!