The lessons of the Korean War were acute, if not always heeded, resulting in the lack of a clear victory, the militarization of American society in the forms of a large standing army and huge defense expenditures, and the newfound confidence of China, which spooked both the U.S. She posits the war as the galvanizer for American militarization during the Cold War and the tool for bolstering Mao Zedong’s leadership in China and giving new impetus to the “resisting America” theme that would carry through the subsequent Vietnam War. Narratives of Nation Building in Korea, 2003, etc.) provides a well-grounded understanding of the evolution of the paranoid, isolated North Korean state as it emerged from Soviet protection and attempted to enforce its legitimacy across the entire peninsula by waging war on the South. A protracted chronicle of the north-south conflict in Korea and the ultimate yearning for peninsular peace.
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