OK, one more thing about Korean War. Let us first look at the advantage and disadvantage of both forces.
From wiki, UN forces:
South Korea 590,911
USA 480,000
Britain 63,000 [1]
Canada 26,791[2]
The Philippines 7,000
Turkey 5,455[3]
The Netherlands 3,972
Australia 17,000
France 3,421[4]
New Zealand 1,389
Thailand 1,294
Ethiopia 1,271
Greece 1,263
Colombia 1,068
Belgium 900
South Africa 826
Luxembourg 44
Total: 941,356–1,139,518
Communist force:
260,000 North Korean,
780,000 Chinese,
26,000 Soviet troops,
total: 1,066,000
so both side have about the same amount of troop, so some people say commuist have 4-5 times amount of troops is just BS
Then let see their weapons. US side have the best weapon includes air and artillery strike ability. China doesn’t bro… US just finished with Nazi and Japanese force, so they have A LOT experiences.
China have only Limited amount of captured weapons from Japanese and Nationalist, So North Korea actually have Russian supplied weapons. (beginning of the war, Russia didn’t help china with any weapon.)
some times 2 chinese divisions only have the fire power of 1 US regiment.
china don't have navy, even a air force at beginne of the war.
Food is alos a problem for PLA(PVA), most soldier only have 2 pound of rice and some sugars for battle, No MRE!
But, what is left for China is war experience all the way track back from 1930's when japan invaded china. some officer in PLA(PVA) at the time have war experience since they were a child! Throwing grenade when they were only 7 years old. Fought for more than 9 years already !
Then comes to china’s tactic “to use our strongest point to strike enemy’s weakest point”
Night infantry assault is the primary tactic. At night, there can’t be air strike and artillery support from US. Because some time fighting war so close with the US, artillery can’t be send… (Smart move by Chinese generals).
Historian and Korean War veteran Bevin Alexander had this to say about Chinese tactics in his book How Wars Are Won:
The Chinese had no air power and were armed only with rifles, machineguns, hand grenades, and mortars. Against the much more heavily armed Americans, they adapted a technique they had used against the Nationalists in the Chinese civil war of 1946–49. The Chinese generally attacked at night and tried to close in on a small troop position — generally a platoon — and then attacked it with local superiority in numbers. The usual method was to infiltrate small units, from a platoon of fifty men to a company of 200, split into separate detachments. While one team cut off the escape route of the Americans, the others struck both the front and the flanks in concerted assaults. The attacks continued on all sides until the defenders were destroyed or forced to withdraw. The Chinese then crept forward to the open flank of the next platoon position, and repeated the tactics.
Also, IN FACT china caused the GREATEST retreat in AMERICAN WAR HISTORY.
Also remember, China is not just fight US, China is fighting UN, and south Korean at the same time.
I am an American too, but I have say china did a DAME good job… at that time of equipment, food, and a country that have suffered war since 1100’s….
So they won? Not necessarily, but good job? Hell yeah.
