ABSTRACT
General Matthew B. Ridgway, who commanded both the Eighth United States Army in Korea (EUSAK) and the United Nations Command (UNC) during the Korean War, observed soon after the war, “What throws you in combat is rarely the fact that your tactical scheme was wrong … but that you failed to think through the hard cold facts of logistics” (Ridgway 1956: 276). This was particularly true during the Korean War where logistical considerations often determined the operational decisions and outcome for both sides.
