李奇微将军《韩战回忆录》摘录

Excerpted from Korean War by Matthew B. Ridgway

 

General Ridgway wrote in commenting on General MacArthur's mistakes.

 

Chapter four

Near disaster on the Yalu-The Chinese enter the war - fighting withdrawal of the 1st marine division.

 

Perhaps there was some justification for his apparently assumption that China was a paper tiger and that her radioed warnings were bluff, even that the appearance of a few volunteers was part of that bluff. 

 

Some commentators have forgotten that we had nearly complete air superiority in Korea through a sort of unwritten agreement that left our airfields in Korea and Japan immune from arrack by the Chinese. So we too had our “privileged sanctuary” without which the Korean War could have been a far more tragic story.

 

As a matter of fact we had in Korea a prime example of how mistaken it is to imagine that an enemy’s supply lines can be “interdicted” through air power alone. We had almost no opposition in the air over the battlefield in North Korea and we were free to attack the enemy’s supply lines without hindrance except from ground fire, and not even that during the first year. As a result we did indeed destroy much of the enemy’s equipment and supplies on the road and undoubtedly we hampered him severely and cost him a high price in lives and machinery. Yet the enemy still remained strong on the ground, where we had to fight him, and he still kept his armies intact and the vital real estate in his possession.

 

 

谷歌翻译：

 

摘自Ridgway将军在评论MacArthur将军的错误时所写的。

 

第四章

 

鸭绿江边的灾难——中国人进入战争——与第1海军陆战队师的撤退之战。

 

或许，他有理由相信，中国是一只纸老虎，中国通过无线电发出的警告都是虚张声势，甚至一些志愿者的出现也是虚张声势的一部分。

 

一些评论员忘记了，通过一项不成文的协议，我们在韩国拥有了几乎完全的空中优势，该协议使我们在韩国和日本的机场免受中国人的制裁。因此，我们也有我们的“特权避难所”，如果没有这个避难所，朝鲜战争可能会是一个更悲惨的故事。

 

事实上，我们在韩国有一个典型的例子，说明仅仅通过空中力量就可以“截断”敌人的补给线是多么错误。 在朝鲜的战场上，我们在空中几乎没有对手，除了地面火力外，我们可以自由地毫无阻碍地攻击敌人的补给线，甚至在第一年连地面的阻力都没有。 结果，我们确实摧毁了敌人在路上的大部分设备和补给品，毫无疑问，我们严重阻碍了他，让他付出了高昂的生命和机器代价。 然而，敌人在地面上仍然很强大，我们不得不在那里与他作战，他仍然保持他的军队完好无损，并拥有重要的地盘。

 

注：这里的第一个他是指的麦克阿瑟，后面的他是指的中国军队。

 

结束

 

It looks like that a paper tiger is actually a real one.