Generational Dynamics World View

[Cynic Hero '86]

(04-17-2017, 11:51 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:

(04-17-2017, 09:46 AM)Cynic Hero Wrote: >   The only viable candidate for the Korean Crisis War is the Korean
>   war. During WW2 there was no fighting whatsoever on Korean
>   soil. When Japan Surrendered, the Japanese military authorities
>   handed over administration to the US and USSR without any
>   fighting. Not to mention there were numerous massacres between
>   communist and non-communists in the two years between independence
>   and the start of the war. Most atrocities during the war were
>   carried out by North Koreans and South Koreans against each other.
>  

One major problem with that claim is that if the Korean war had been a
generational crisis war, then it would not have ended in an armistice,
but would have been fought to a victory by one side or the other.
Ending in an armistice is typical first turning behavior, not fourth
turning behavior.

The Anglo-Spanish war, the Thirty years War and Spanish succession wars ended with all an armistice. The Napoleonic wars ended with treaties except in the Last war in which napoleon was finally defeated. The only Major international war in the past several centuries in which the peace was imposed entirely by one victorious side without any input from the defeated was WW2, although Germany after WW1 in 1919 signed the final peace only after being given an ultimatum of basically "sign or else". In the Korean war the armistice was basically imposed on the Koreans by the US, China and USSR. A big reason why the US supported the South Korean reformers in the early 1980s is because of strong concerns that if the South Koreans were given more military capabilities than what they needed to defend themselves, they would have marched into the North. Which was a major mistake in my opinion as South Korea would have been much more militarily capable and we wouldn't have troops constantly stationed there as deterrence against the North.