ABSTRACT
This chapter is about opinion, controversy, and interpretation. It consequently devotes as much space to describing writings in military service journals as it does to academic monographs. The former are a forum for opinion; the latter often stick to a narrative of events. Colonel Robert Heinl’s article on Inch’ŏn in The Naval War College Review, for example, occupies more space than his book on the same subject, Victory at High Tide, which is filled with pertinent informative but is less opinionated (Heinl 1998, 1968). There will be no mention, except here, of Brigadier General Edward Simmons’ Over The Seawall (2000) on the U.S. Marine Corps execution of the Inch’ŏn landing. 1 Researchers can learn a lot from this booklet, but not his opinion of the military worth of the operation. Of more value, Paul M. Edwards (1994) has compiled an annotated list of sources on the landing.
