Urgency Has Been the Order of the Day: Personnel Management for Operation Chromite

Abstract

Flexibility and adaptability were the method for breakout victory in Korea in September 1950. General Douglas MacArthur turned impending defeat into stunning victory by challenging expectations, maintaining confidence in his staff, and pressing for urgency in every aspect of planning and execution. While many outside of the Far East Command believed it impossible to form a successful force, MacArthurs G1 enabled success in only one month. G1 planners established, activated, manned, and moved the X Corps, a complex unit including nearly 70,000 U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps personnel and coalition partners. The result was a successful landing, breakout from the Pusan perimeter and recapture of the capital city of Seoul. Decisions and actions by commanders and G1 personnel directly led to the unusually rapid activation and deployment of the X Corps, which was the keystone in the successful execution of Operation CHROMITE (MacArthur's Inchon landing).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 14, 2015
Accession Number
AD1175849

Entities

People

  • Meghan V. Ederle

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Readiness
  • Command And Control
  • Far East
  • Korean War
  • Marine Corps
  • Marine Corps Operations
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Navy
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Schools
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.