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... risks Some grave risks should have been apparent to Truman's advisers long before the group became committed to approving MacArthur's efforts to conquer North Korea . For more than two months , the Peking government had been waging a ...
... risks Some grave risks should have been apparent to Truman's advisers long before the group became committed to approving MacArthur's efforts to conquer North Korea . For more than two months , the Peking government had been waging a ...
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... risk of failure . " As a matter of fact , many commentators on the military aspects of the plan assert that the changes Kennedy asked for in order to lower the political risks had the effect of increasing markedly the already serious risks ...
... risk of failure . " As a matter of fact , many commentators on the military aspects of the plan assert that the changes Kennedy asked for in order to lower the political risks had the effect of increasing markedly the already serious risks ...
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... risks , McLellan says that there would be no reason for them to keep the President ignorant of serious risks of which they were aware " unless we are to assume the President is the equivalent of the pre - war Japanese emperor " ( p . 30 ) ...
... risks , McLellan says that there would be no reason for them to keep the President ignorant of serious risks of which they were aware " unless we are to assume the President is the equivalent of the pre - war Japanese emperor " ( p . 30 ) ...
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Why So Many Miscalculations? | 2 |
The Bay of Pigs | 14 |
The Wrong | 48 |
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