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Friendly 5 comments FONT +  FONT -  Dismissed as the 'forgotten
war,' Korea was in actuality one of America's most significant
conflicts. Although born of a misapprehension, the Korean War
triggered the buildup of U.S. forces in the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), began American involvement in the
Vietnam War, and, although seen as an aberration at the time,
now serves as the very model for America's wars of the future.
One reason the importance of the Korean War is not better
appreciated is that from the very start the conflict presented
confusing and contradictory messages. Historian and Korean War
combat veteran T.R. Fehrenbach wrote in his classic This Kind of
War: 'Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since
Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever;
you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it, and wipe it clean of
life–but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for
civilization, you must do this