Asian Affairs | 2021
Transnational Mobility and Identity in and out of Korea
Abstract
American fight. Further Chinese offensives delivered less at greater cost. The Fifth offensive was the beginning of the end as a war of manoeuvre became bogged down into a two year war of position. China sent more than three million troops to Korea. During the two years of ‘negotiating while fighting’ Beijing rotated its military in and out of Korea for practice in fighting Americans. The war transformed both combatants. A professional Army emerged from the peasant Army of the civil war, while in America the Military Industrial Complex was born to ensure the continued triumph of technology over the will.