![]() ![]() If there is almost poetry in the author’s understanding of Americans’ frustration over Korea there is also prophecy in his statement (in 1963) that they would face other frustrating conflicts all over the globe.Īlthough a history, This Kind of War has the vividness of a memoir. The United States was unprepared to fight a limited war halfway around the world and when it intervened it overreached before finally winning partial victory and painful wisdom. 37,000 American lives to prove it.įehrenbach’s framework is tragic. The Communists, he writes, doubted that the United States “had the will to react quickly and practically and without panic in a new situation.” They were wrong, but it cost ca. He understands the Korean conflict not as a test of power but of wills, in particular, of American will. ![]() ![]() This Kind of War originally appeared in 1963 with the subtitle of A Study in Unpreparedness and was republished in a new edition in 1994.Īlthough This Kind of War starts with a quotation from Sun Tzu, Fehrenbach adopts a Clausewitzian approach. But he also wrote the sad and beautiful Comanches: The Destruction of a People (1974), which shows great admiration for Native Americans. ![]() He is remembered for the bestselling Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans (1968), whose emphasis on gun-slinging white men now makes it politically incorrect. A journalist rather than an academic, Fehrenbach (1925-2013) wrote larger-than-life history of a heroic bent. ![]()
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